This collection brings together strange tales, folk horror, and independent horror stories: eerie legends passed down for centuries across remote villages and the countryside. From deep mountains and sheer ravines to desolate hamlets and ancient stockades, from old photographs of the Republican era to mysterious tales from waterside towns, one sinister and bizarre story after another has been passed from mouth to mouth, never fading away.
A ghostly wedding procession on Blackstone Cliff; the vengeful spirit of a young opera performer, still full of resentment in the theater; red embroidered shoes waiting for a pair of feet in an old mansion; a river ghost lying in wait to claim lives at the ferry crossing; a fox spirit seeking recognition for its cultivation in a mass grave; a faceless female ghost combing her hair at midnight in a ruined temple; a lonely spirit that casts no reflection before a stone mirror; paper figures borrowing lives in the ancient town after dark; a resentful spirit’s millstone turning without pause in an abandoned village; countless ghostly hands reaching out of a freezing pool...
Wherever people rarely tread, restless spirits linger. Wherever someone has died unjustly, strange happenings take root. Walking alone at midnight, seeking shelter in an abandoned house, losing your way in the mountains, or returning late from the water’s edge: any of these could bring you face-to-face with something beyond description.
One volume of old tales, filled with ghost stories, lays bare the wickedness and injustice lurking in the darkest corners of the human world, and conveys the reverence our elders passed down from generation to generation.
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