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- 1 Folk Tales of the Supernatural: The Paper Effigies I Make Can Enter Ancient Tombs 民间诡闻:我扎的纸人能下大墓 My name is Li Yan, and I'm a paper effigy craftsman who won't live past twenty-five. To extend my life, I have no choice but to seek rare treasures in the most sinister tombs. Other people risk death whenever they enter a tomb. I rely entirely on paper effigies! The Yellow River Ghost Coffin, the Cloudtop Snow Tomb... I sacrifice my lifespan, dot their eyes, and give them life! A red-clad paper bride tears a female demon to shreds, while an armored paper general cleaves a snow monster in two! “B 1.4kReads—Score11014d adds
- 2 Global Horror: I Became a God-Tier Paper Effigy from the Start 全球惊悚:开局成了神级纸扎人 He transmigrates to a world plagued by the resurgence of the supernatural, and from the start finds himself inhabiting a paper effigy. But as long as he harvests fear, he can keep leveling up! “Ding! Detected: 100 fear points from Chu Renmei!” “Ding! Detected: 200 fear points from Sadako!” “Ding! Detected: 300 fear points from Kayako!” He scares people, and even ghosts. He will become a terrifying demon god. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Black Myth: Soul-Sealing Apotheosis 黑神话:摄魂封神 [Black Myth] [Lighthearted Supernatural] [No System] [Space] [Not Invincible] [Ensemble Cast] Liu Chen is an orphan a million yuan in debt, making a living from... adult photography... no, regular photography. He’ll take any job to protect the house his mother left him. After taking private portraits of the school belle, he is haunted by a vengeful ghost. He thinks he’ll never pay off his debts, but an incredible fortune is just around the corner. Liu Chen also gains a new identity: Imperial Cit 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 The Corpse Reader 尸生相人 Adapt to the balance of yin and yang and align with the secrets of the heavens. Read the bones to see the face, and the skin to see the qi. The changes in your palm are but an illusion; the five elements determine your fate. A person's face and destiny reveal only seven parts out of ten. The other three are secrets of heaven, beyond anyone's sight. Only the face of the dead can be seen in its entirety. But after I was born, I somehow displayed all ten parts, just like a dead person! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 A Paper Effigy Maker Who Sacrificed His Five Senses from the Start 扎纸匠开局献祭五感 I sacrificed my five senses to make paper effigies, but ended up creating the most terrifying monster in the world. The paper effigy came to life, and from that day on, I could no longer taste whether something was salty or bland. After my sense of taste came my hearing, smell, sight... But little by little, I realized that the senses I’d lost let me “smell” things ordinary people couldn’t see. The Flower Cave Maidens of western Hunan weren’t brides claimed by a mountain god. They were buried al 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Paper Effigy Maker 扎纸人 My grandfather was a renowned paper effigy maker, a trade associated with the yin world. I never imagined there could be so many mysterious and unfathomable secrets hidden in it... 189Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 The Yellow Immortal Worships the Moon: A Dreamt-Up Suicide Note 黄仙拜月:托梦遗书 [Traditional Supernatural Tales, Told by a Practitioner of the Netherworld Arts] A strange book left behind by my grandfather before he died. It records hundreds of uncanny spells: The Nether Soul Spirit-Communication Art, the Scissors Ghost-Sending Method, the Treasure Mirror Circle of Light Technique, the Broom Evil-Breaking Method… These spells may seem rather “homely.” But they brought me all kinds of terrifying experiences: An eerie spirit in a rented apartment, a lost child by the roadside 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 The Coffin Man 棺人 There was an old coffin in our home. On the first and fifteenth day of every month, Grandpa had me paint it with red and black lacquer. This went on for years, but he never told me why. It was only after I turned eighteen and was buried alive inside that old coffin that I gradually uncovered one secret after another. From then on, I embarked on a very different path in life. Three calamities and six tribulations, nine coffins crossing together: ferrying people, demons, and restless souls! The Ye 251Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 9 The Paper Effigy Maker 扎纸匠 I was born unlucky. My father didn’t care for me, my mother didn’t love me, and even my grandfather, who had been closest to me when I was little, wanted nothing to do with me. Then one day, I accidentally drank some “mineral water” my cousin had made for an experiment, and my life changed completely. I thought my life was about to end, but my grandfather, who had spent his whole life making funeral wreaths and paper effigies, suddenly came looking for me. He took me to a place only the dead cou 33Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Tales from the Paper Effigy Shop 纸扎店怪谈 Every industry has a reason to exist. Life-for-life magic, wealth-attracting spells, zombies, blood corpses... My name is An Yi, and I run a paper effigy shop. At first, I simply offered a complete funeral service. But then I went through a series of events that will turn your worldview upside down. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 The Taboos of Paper Effigies 扎纸禁忌 My grandfather's family were paper effigy makers. When someone died, people would have them make paper houses, cars, oxen, horses, sedan chairs, and all sorts of things. In short, it was a trade tied to funerals. But one summer when I was a child, something strange happened at my grandfather's house. I saw things I shouldn't have seen, and, worse still, I saw the eerie girl who would haunt me for the rest of my life. After that, I didn't dare go back to my grandfather's house. But I never imagin 55Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Paper Effigy Maker: A Ghost Bride Steals the Groom, So I Craft a Yin Deity 扎纸匠:鬼新娘抢亲,我扎出阴神 Wu Qingyang transmigrates to a world where supernatural horrors have returned and inherits a shop that makes paper figures. On the day his heart is broken, he gets drunk and accidentally picks up a ghost's embroidered ball. Legend has it that at midnight, a ghost bride arrives in a grand sedan chair to take away whoever picked up the ball... and drain his life force. Luckily, he gets bound to a Paper-Figure-Making System! Make paper figures of underworld constables to capture evil ghosts! Make p 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Horror Revival: The Paper Effigy Maker's Judge Zhong Kui from the Start 恐怖复苏:扎纸匠,开局判官钟馗 Xu An transmigrated to a parallel world plagued by supernatural horrors, becoming the heir to a hundred-year-old paper effigy shop. Just as ghosts set their sights on him and come to claim his life on the seventh day after his death, a voice rings out! “Ding!” “Congratulations, Host! You’ve obtained the Paper Effigy Compendium: Judge Zhong Kui, Sacred Lord of the Office of Punishing Evil!” “Congratulations, Host! You’ve obtained the Yin-Yang Divine Sight!” “Congratulations, Host! You’ve obtained 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 I Ferry Souls in the Mortal World 我在人间摆渡灵魂 Some people call me Master, others call me a charlatan. Some even respectfully address me as Grandmaster or Celestial Master. But really, I’m just an “ordinary” guide for the dead. Jiang Cheng, an unremarkable funeral master, awakens a mysterious ability after one particular funeral. He can actually see souls, or ghosts!!! (This story has only one supernatural character, the protagonist. It’s more of an everyday-life story with tearjerking moments, not a horror novel.) 50Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 15 Cultivating the Dao Amid the Strange: Starting with Corpse Driving 诡异修道:从赶尸开始 Ye Bai woke up one morning to find himself a corpse-driver. The dead should return to their roots. Those who die far from home must be escorted back to their hometown by a corpse-driver, or trouble may follow. In this chaotic dynasty, wars break out constantly, and there are plenty of corpses. However, Ye Bai discovers that he can earn rewards simply by driving corpses. Corpse-Controlling Arts, the Yellow Skin Drum, divine-mask Nuo opera, paper figures brought to life, the Rebirth Eye, Earthly F 43Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Ghost Executioner, Coffin Bearer 铡鬼人,抬棺匠 I'm an ill-starred man who brings death to everyone in my family. I see the dead off and grant the living their wishes. A single dragon pole can hoist countless ghosts and fiends; a single executioner's blade can cut down thousands of evil spirits. A coffin maker, a ghost slayer, walking the road of the living with the gate of reincarnation on my shoulders. The dead are passing through, the living stand aside 197Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 17 The Underworld Divine Craftsman 阴司神匠 A conspiracy, a storm of trouble, and a perilous ordeal that refuses to end. Old grudges and tangled passions from twenty years ago, step after nerve-racking step twenty years later: the search for the truth continues. The deaths of my parents, the divide between the living and the dead, a foothold in the Underworld, and demons unleashed in droves... Every step marks my growth, and every step warns that danger is drawing closer. Turn the page and follow me, a paper effigy maker of the Underworld 49Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Divine Blood-Jade Coffin 血玉神棺 I revealed my family’s heirloom blood jade on an antiques appraisal livestream, only to bring a death sentence upon myself. What I never expected was that the blood jade held a great opportunity left behind by my grandfather. After inheriting it, I became a Feng Shui master whose power could shake heaven and earth, and whose name inspired fear in ghosts and gods! Dragon-and-phoenix blood jade, a divine coffin for a jade maiden, enchanting women, Gu refined into spirits Mother-and-son fiends, nin 42Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 Supernatural: I Change into a Taoist Robe, Then Head Straight into the River 灵异:道袍一换,下河就干 When a dead fish bites, turn around and leave; change into a Taoist robe, and get straight to work in the river. Make it safely to shore, and the whole internet praises you; fail to catch a ghost, and the whole village gets a meal. A century-old corpse in a rural reservoir, a generations-old evil bond that uses a corpse to bear a child, a cunning demon in the mirror, ghostly shadows in an abandoned hospital, terror at an amusement park, and the fog-shrouded Mount Hujun… 60Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 The Ghostly Papercutter 幽冥剪纸人 “You want to make a deal with me? But all I want is your shadow!” Song Xiaohan grinned. 22Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 21 Wicked Fate Geomancer 邪命地理师 [Mystery + Supernatural + Comedy + Not a Power Fantasy + Urban + National Fate] The Dragon Veins are gone from the world. The nation's fate now depends entirely on geomancers! Also known as The Geomancer of an Ill-Fated Destiny A friendly warning: This story is almost too realistic… I'm a geomancer. Some people call us feng shui masters, but that's not the whole story. I don't know much, but in my line of work, it's all about cause and effect, and the tides of fortune! In your eyes, a nati 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 The Mystic Paper Effigy Maker 奇门扎纸匠 Before I was even born, my grandfather had already begun quietly changing my fate, arranging an engagement to someone I had never met. He spared no effort to defy fate and pass down the paper effigy-making craft of the Four Yin Sect, hoping to avoid every calamity brought by the Five Bane and Three Deficiencies. When I was born, strange omens appeared in the sky. Something extraordinary was happening, and it seemed all the disasters were only just beginning. It looked as though everything had be 76Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 Building the Underworld: Is It Really So Strange for My Men to Be a Few Hundred Million More Thuggish? 建立地府,手下悍匪多亿点合理吧 [Underworld] [Livestream] [Comedy] [Invincible] A fun, easy read! The Blue Star Dragon Kingdom has no underworld, so reapers and soul-guides from all nations compete here for the souls of the dead and to expand their power. Mo Shang, the Great Emperor of Fengdu, arrives in the Blue Star Dragon Kingdom with the city of Fengdu and establishes the Dragon Kingdom’s Netherworld Underworld. Its founding draws the attention of the six great underworlds of Blue Star, who join forces to oppose it. Wh 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 The Corpse Driver 赶尸匠 Who in western Hunan hasn't heard of corpse-driving? But how many people know about the corpse drivers themselves? They hide by day and travel by night, keeping company with corpses. Using this strange art, they can make the dead walk, guiding them home to be laid to rest. What terrors and hardships do novices face as they learn to drive corpses? How do they grow, step by step, into capable corpse drivers? Come along with my protagonist and embark on a mysterious journey into the art of corpse-d 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 The Heaven-Chosen Paper Effigy Maker 天命扎纸人 First comes fate, then fortune, then feng shui; fourth, accumulate virtue, and fifth, study. Sixth, choose a spouse; seventh, choose a career; eighth, make friends with people of influence; ninth, practice good health. Those who work with yin and yang make their living by reading fate, but they are doomed to three deficiencies and five afflictions, with life and death impossible to predict. With nothing but the craft of making paper effigies, they guide countless wandering souls and spirits to t 349Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 The Paper Effigy Maker 扎纸匠 Why can the descendants of the legendary Lu Ban, once famous throughout the land, only make paper offerings for funerals? Why did the once-renowned Li family retreat into the mountains? As the power of his bloodline awakens once more within a young man, is it a curse, or the work of man? Can fate be defied? Li Shuisheng refuses to believe in destiny. He will defy the heavens, change his fate, and fight for a chance to survive... 273Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 The Mysterious Origami Master: Rising to Power from the Underworld! 诡秘折纸匠:从阴间开始成大佬! (The protagonist is calm and self-focused, and refuses to be swept along by outside forces. Please understand if that's not to your taste.) After a family upheaval, he awakens as a bizarre paper-folding craftsman. After a paper mansion is burned down, it transforms into a haunted apartment building in the underworld. One paper figure after another becomes a battle-hardened general! With a wave of paper, he summons a river of stars across the heavens. With a drop of paper, the Yellow Springs surg 825Reads6.7Score15214d adds
- 28 Transmigrating into the Jiangshi World to Attain Immortality 穿越僵尸世界证长生 After transmigrating to a zombie-infested world, all I want is to develop at a steady pace. I took in the master of a Laoshan palace as my disciple, raised a bunch of magnificent spirit beasts to run errands, drank tea with Uncle Jiu, and toured the world with heroes. What? The Chrysanthemum Sect from the island nation wants to seize our national fortune, and werewolves and vampires want to perform blood sacrifices? People like us must raise our green steel swords and cut down every evil spirit! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Jiangcheng General Store 江城杂货铺 Rules of the Jiangcheng General Store: 1. The store opens at the hour of the Rat and closes at the hour of the Rabbit. We serve no customers at any other time! 2. Every visitor is a customer. Anyone who enters must follow the store’s rules, or bear the consequences! 3. All transactions must be honest. Payment is due upon delivery. Break the deal, and bear the consequences! 4. No pets allowed! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 The Paper Effigy Maker: Paper Figures Become Gods 扎纸匠:纸人成神 The world underwent a tremendous change, and spiritual qi revival began. All kinds of monsters appeared in the human world and wreaked havoc everywhere. Fortunately, humans also awakened all sorts of supernatural abilities, gaining the power to fight back. Wang Ling was an ordinary paper effigy maker until he awakened an ability called “Spirit-Driving Paper Control.” From then on, all kinds of powerful paper spirits came into being. Ferocious beasts, ghosts, supernatural ability users, even the 6Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 31 The Last Paper Effigy Maker 最后一个扎纸匠 Paper effigy crafting is a business of the yin world. Of the many trades, the seventh refers to making paper effigies. My master said our line of paper effigy makers suffers from the Five Banes and Three Deficiencies, and is steeped in bad luck. We can forget about marrying and having children. If a female ghost starts haunting us, that's practically a blessing from our ancestors! “So that's why you told me to marry a paper effigy?” I looked at the paper figure lying beside me and felt a chill r 146Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 The Grave-Nailing Craftsman 钉坟匠 A centenarian’s body must not be buried carelessly. My master hanged himself at his own front door because he mishandled one such burial. To let him rest in peace, I performed an Earth Immortal burial again, only to discover that my dead master was watching me... 235Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 33 Tales from the Corpse Retriever: When Midnight Comes, the Dead Speak 捞尸怪谈:夜半正是尸语时 The great river in my hometown is deeply sinister. Ever since my great-grandfather's time, my family has worked in this area at a job that living people should stay away from: retrieving corpses from the water. After I inherited the family trade, all kinds of strange events began to unfold around me: the mother and child corpses in Qinghe, the soul-snatching female streamer, the uninhabited mountain village... 53Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 34 Northeastern Coffin Bearer 东北抬棺匠 Wang Chuyi learned the Book of Changes and the Eight Trigrams, Maoshan magic, swordsmanship, and boxing from his grandfather from an early age. He met Ma Hongmei, a disciple of the Ma family from Northeast China, and became her godson. Before she died, Ma Hongmei passed on to him her shrine, where she had enshrined a hundred immortals. Practicing both the immortal and Daoist paths, Wang Chuyi slays evil ghosts, subdues wicked demons, battles zombies, and guides benevolent spirits onward. He even 404Reads6.8Score11114d adds
- 35 Fengdu Affairs Office 酆都事务所 [First-person manhunt and mystery-solving + no System + no transmigration + traditional supernatural fantasy] The King of Hell, ruler of the Fifth Hall of the underworld, opened an agency in the human world to hunt down evil ghosts, wicked beasts, and demons that had escaped into the land of the living. My name is Fu Ming, an orphan born with the Five Deficiencies and Three Shortcomings. By a twist of fate, I interviewed at a company called the Fengdu Agency. Who would have thought that I would 4Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 36 The Haunted Campus: Who Says School Is the Safest Place? 惊魂校区谁说学校最安全 Shocking! A Qing-dynasty tomb has been unearthed behind the school, but the coffin inside is empty. And the four seemingly ordinary university students turn out to be Yin-Yang masters straight out of horror movies. A coffin slid down the hillside behind the school. A secret history of the Qing dynasty that was never recorded. Missing classmates. A sinister archive room. A hearse on Zhongshan Street. A weasel encountered while camping. Somehow, it all seems to be pointing toward something. Do you —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 On Tomb-Sweeping Day, I Opened a Viral Paper Effigy Shop on the Road to the Underworld 清明节,我在黄泉路开网红纸扎铺 Unemployed young man Lin Xiaoman is forced to return to his hometown and take over the family’s traditional paper effigy shop. But he discovers that the paper money, luxury cars, and phones he makes turn into real goods in the underworld when burned! From then on, his customers are no longer just the living... The King of Hell commissions a “paper aircraft carrier.” A vengeful spirit asks him to repair a “torn marriage contract.” Even the Underworld’s Bureau of Industry and Commerce comes knocki 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 I Graduated on a Whim, Secretly Became a Corpse Driver, and Got Livestreamed 任性毕业,偷摸做了赶尸匠还被人直播了 Lin Xu unexpectedly awakens the Corpse-Driving System. A terrible student, he decides to head to western Hunan and drive corpses. On the train, Lin Xu gets a call from his homeroom teacher: “Lin Xu, we're taking graduation photos today! Hurry over and make yourself a nice memory from your senior year!” Lin Xu: “Teacher, I'm on a train to western Hunan right now! I'll have to miss the graduation photos.” Homeroom teacher: “Western Hunan? What are you going there for?” Lin Xu: “To drive corpses, o 141Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 Paper Effigy Maker: From the Start, I Craft the Black and White Impermanence 扎纸匠:开局扎出黑白无常 Ning Qiu transmigrates to a fantasy continent and awakens the Paper-Figuring System. He slays fierce ghosts and demons, defines the boundary between yin and yang, and restores the order of reincarnation. He crafts the Black and White Impermanence: with a handful of yellow earth, they claim lives! He crafts the Eighteen Hells: rewarding good and punishing evil, they bar the Three Paths! He crafts Ox-Head and Horse-Face: they sweep away the wicked and take in all manner of evil! In the end, he bec 92Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 Livestreaming Corpse-Herding, Hunted by My Blind Date 直播赶尸,被相亲对象追捕 Liu Mang is unexpectedly reborn with a live-streaming corpse-driving System, only for his aunt to call and tell him to go on a blind date! The female ghost Jin Yuanyuan: “Master, big brother, stick with you and I’ll get to eat my fill!” Ye Xueli: “I’m a police officer, and I’m hunting down the person live-streaming corpse driving. Hey, why are you running?!” Junior schoolmate Zhong Feifei: “Senior, could you be the dark horse prince Heaven sent me?” The thousand-year-old zombie Queen of Loul 22Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 41 The Yin-Yang Medium 通灵阴阳师 This is a world teeming with ghosts and monsters, where strange and inexplicable events happen every day. After transmigrating, Wang Tian gained the ability to see through things and communicate with spirits and all living beings. He thought he could live a carefree life, but the System nearly drained his lifespan. By an unexpected turn of events, he became a yin-yang master. With little time left to live, Wang Tian had no choice but to exorcise demons and avenge the wronged dead to extend his 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 The Last Corpse Driver 最后一个赶尸人 The dead march on; the living must keep their distance. If they don't, disaster is sure to follow! I'm a corpse driver, and this is my story! 725Reads8.0Score10114d adds
- 43 The Fox Immortal Seeks a Title: I Said You Look Like My Future Wife 狐仙讨封:我说你像我未来的老婆 The white fox who once snuggled under the covers with me came to ask me to grant her a human form. I said: “You look like my future wife: a tempting face and figure, a slender waist, soft breasts, peach-round hips, fair skin, stunning looks, and long legs. You're even more beautiful than a nine-tailed fox spirit descended to the mortal world.” 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 The Cunning Yin-Yang Doctor 阴人诡医 [Supernatural + Feng Shui + Fortune-Telling + Doctor + Witchcraft + Ghosts + Mystery + Wild Imagination + Qimen Bagua + Professions] To repay a debt of gratitude, I went against my grandfather’s dying wish. From then on, there was a strange doctor in the world, and I encountered countless extraordinary people. A human face that appears on your back at night, man-eating Gu insects, evil spirits with human faces and snake bodies. The wandering knife peddlers who sell their wares on credit, and the 169Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 45 The Greatest Ghost Taoist in the Mortal Realm 阳间第一鬼道 The coffin is raised, the incense still burns, and the grave is moved. The Taoist was once an evil ghost; wicked arts throw the age into chaos. Paper figures harbor murderous intent; living stones imprison evil spirits. Vengeful ghosts don Taoist robes, and the sinister wind never stops blowing. Ning An was a disciple of the Taoist sect, but his master used him as a pawn, while his master’s wife wanted to eat him and turn him into a vengeful ghost. 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 The Paper Horse Shop: Messenger Between Yin and Yang 我有一间纸马铺之阴阳使者 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 Part-Time Ghost Officer: You Ask If I Can Catch Ghosts? 兼职鬼差,你问我会不会捉鬼 Zhong Ze is so hopelessly unmotivated that his ancestor Zhong Kui storms up from the underworld and gives him a thorough beating. Then he teaches him cultivation techniques and gives him magical treasures, making Zhong Ze a part-time underworld ghost constable. In the mortal realm, Zhong Ze catches ghosts, banishes evil, and upholds justice on Heaven's behalf. Later, he is even invited to become an exorcist police officer. With an official post in both the mortal and spirit worlds, he thrives in —Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 48 The Yellow River Corpse Retriever 黄河捞尸人 There is always more to the Yellow River than you know! You’d be better off never asking about the forbidden legends of the Yellow River! The Yellow River’s ghost soldiers, the Fish-Bone Divine Temple, the Iron-Headed Dragon King, deadly venomous insects, ghost wedding processions... The strangest objects of the Yellow River, and the oldest, most mysterious profession: Yellow River corpse divers! Their families have guarded the ancient river route for generations. But what are they really protec 27Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 49 The Campus Belle Exposes Me Catching Ghosts at the Funeral Home 校花曝光我在殡仪馆抓鬼现场 Ghost King: This guy is a complete freak. Demon King: H-he can actually make lightning with his bare hands? Devil King: He’s way too freakish. I can’t afford to mess with him!!!!!! 625Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 50 Tales of Western Hunan 湘西往事录 Strike the gong to announce the spirits, ring the bell to summon their souls. Dressed in Taoist robes, the corpse driver of western Hunan. The dead are on the move. The living, stand aside. A crescent moon shines on blue robes, a river of stars stretches across the low sky. The mournful gong clears the way, ghostly shadows speak of western Hunan. Silver bells softly summon souls, coins pave the road and drive the spirits away. Every household shuts its doors tight, the living keep away as deathl 4Reads—Score—14d adds

















































