The Yin-Walking Man of Southern Xinjiang

While I was away at college, I got a call from the police station.

They said my entire family of four had died in a fire!

I couldn’t even stop to grieve. I hurried to buy a ticket home,

but then I received a letter from my grandmother.

It said: “Whatever you do, don’t come home!”

My family belongs to a lineage of spirit walkers from southern Xinjiang,

who send their souls wandering between the worlds of the living and the dead.

The gift passes from mother to daughter, never to sons, and I only know the basics.

I decided to enter the underworld and ask my grandmother’s spirit what had happened.

But when I lit a soul-summoning candle

and stepped into the realm of the dead,

I discovered that my grandmother, my parents, and my older sister

had all died unjustly and become vengeful ghosts…