The Paper Effigy Shop at Midnight: None of My Customers Are Human

My name is Chen Mo. I inherited Grandpa’s Chen Family Paper Offerings Shop and thought I’d just be making paper people and horses for a living. That was until, late one night, a “customer” knocked on the door and ordered a paper figure that looked exactly like him... That was when I learned the shop didn’t sell paper offerings. It sold lives. Paper figures that crossed the Soul-Suppressing Bridge opened their eyes. Paper clothes burned for a lonely grave came back on their own. And I became the “ferryman” between the worlds of the living and the dead. The long-forgotten horrors of Chinese tradition were crawling out of the city’s corners...