Supernatural Stories That Happen at Night

"Rumors from the Streets: Little Stories"

A mountain-region cab driver's terrifying experience. In 1982, a driver took nine strangely dressed people to Old Li's house in the back hills late at night. The next day, he learned that the number and colors of the piglets born to Old Li's sow that night matched the number of passengers and what they had been wearing. The money he had been paid had turned into spirit money, and he fell unconscious for three days. His wife sought help. Old Li's older brother found a fortune-teller, who told them to use red cloth, firecrackers, and burnt paper to dispel the trouble. After the driver woke up, he sold his car and never dared go out after eight at night again.

The red-clothed child who played with me when I was little.

The white-clad, long-haired woman who walked into my family's courtyard and vanished.

That row of footprints that led toward the corner of a wall, with none coming back, and so on. A collection of little folk stories like these.