Pawnshop No. 14

I’m Chen Gui, a folklore graduate student who researches urban legends. It wasn’t until I inherited the Number Fourteen Pawnshop left behind by my missing uncle that I learned the truth: the shop doesn’t take gold or silver. It only accepts rule-based ghost stories that “eat people.” The third step from the bottom on the midnight staircase, the Mirror Immortal’s invitation to comb your hair, the ticket to an empty screening at the Blood-Red Cinema… All the taboos from urban legends have become collectibles on my shelves. But every time I acquire a new ghost story, “rule hunters” come to my door with chains, trying to take it. And the truth behind my uncle’s disappearance is hidden between the lines of these stories. He didn’t get lost. One of the “collectibles” dragged him into a crack in the rules.