In the chaotic era of the Republic of China, yin and yang were reversed, and the living and the dead walked the same paths.
What you think of as the everyday world hides all manner of eerie horrors. The ordinary people you meet may be able to communicate with the spirit world, command demons, or determine life and death.
As the Northern Expedition entered the city, the City God moved his registers, powerful figures died one after another, and a letter with no words demanded payment for a blood feud ten years in the making.
At midnight in the foreign concession, an opera troupe took the stage. A redwood chest concealed a hundred vengeful hands, and a murder from thirty years ago returned to haunt the living.
In Nanjing, a pawnshop would trade for years of your life or your emotions. Once ordinary people gave in to greed, death was close at hand.
At a coffin shop in Changsha, a body had to be collected within three days. A young woman guarded a coffin for twenty years, waiting for her enemy to come to her.
From bustling streets and country villages to powerful families, the martial world, battlefields, and foreign concessions, this collection features eighty standalone tales of the uncanny. Every story has a twist, and every deed has its consequences.
There is the terror of vengeful ghosts demanding lives, the tenderness of spirits repaying kindness, the tragic heroism of loyal souls in a time of chaos, and the chilling cruelty of the human heart.
Debts from the world of the living are repaid in the underworld. Evil done in this life will be answered for in the next.
Open this collection of strange tales and enter the true world of yin and yang in Republican-era China. Witness every facet of humanity and countless uncanny events.
