Book of Taboo Events in China: Folk Mysteries

I have spent forty years traveling to the most remote mountain villages and the most eerie ancient towns in China to record the strange things that have been deliberately forgotten. Some people say I am a lunatic, some say I am a liar, but those who have experienced it, those survivors who knocked on my door late at night, trembling all over and with empty eyes, know that what I say is true. Every story in this book is stained with blood. There are secrets told to me by the corpse collectors in western Hunan before they died, about the "extra" corpse; there are taboos passed down from generation to generation by corpse collectors from the Yellow River, saying that certain corpses must not be touched; and the moving barren grave in the old forests of Northeast China... The scariest thing is that these things are still happening today. If you open this book at midnight, please remember: Some words should not be read aloud. Don't stare at some pictures. Some stories... You just can't escape after hearing them. ——Cui Daigong At Beijing Xishan Psychiatric Hospital Winter 1987 (Note: Professor Cui disappeared before the publication of this book. The manuscript was compiled by his assistant, and part of the content was "processed" before being made public.)