Miscellaneous Talk in Luxiang

Have you ever had a moment like this? You wake up at three in the morning and hear footsteps in the living room, but you live alone. When I passed the old mirror, I felt from the corner of my eye that I was half a beat slower. There was the sound of chairs being moved upstairs, but the agent said that the room had been vacant for several years. You thought it was an illusion, because you were too tired, or because of the wind. There are no heroes, no detectives, no psychics in this book. There are only ordinary people like you - an unemployed young man with insomnia, a clerk who rents a house, a delivery rider, a high school student who is jealous of his deskmate, a working girl who was abducted into the mountains, an old farmer who has raised cattle all his life. What they encounter is not some thousand-year-old ghost or ancient evil thing, but the footsteps in the corridor of your home, the vacant door of your neighbor's house, a nursery rhyme you sang when you were a child, and an old chair at the end of the bed. You know these things, you have seen them, you have heard of them. This is the most chilling part of the back. This book collects twenty separate horror stories. Each one of them grew out of gossip in the streets and neighbors, without explanation, sensationalism, or pretense of profoundness. It just places things in front of you one by one that you vaguely know but never dare to confirm - Then ask: Are you sure you are really just one person? ---