Tales of the Uncanny in Jiangnan

Name: Tales of the Uncanny in Jiangnan
Author: Zhuge Laoliu

江南诡事录

by Zhuge Laoliu (诸葛老六)

Status: Completed
Length: 577k Words
Genre: Mystery
Subgenre: Mystery High-Concept
Updated: 8mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

I was born in an old town in Jiangnan, and from childhood I loved hanging around beneath the eaves of the old teahouse.

I would listen as Zhou the Blind sipped his strong tea and spun yarn after yarn, recounting the strange tales he had heard over most of his life.

Half of what this book records came from the stories passed by word of mouth beneath the teahouse storyteller’s gavel; the other half came from what I saw and heard as I grew up wandering the streets and alleys of Jiangnan.

Now the teahouse has been torn down, and the blind man has passed away.

I have combined the bizarre tales he told with the uncanny things I witnessed myself, and written them into this book, A Record of Strange Happenings in Jiangnan.

Ready? You have entered the hidden world of Jiangnan’s water country!

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