Yin Hall Record Keeper

When ancient folk taboos are broken, the mysteries lurking in the countryside awaken one by one.

Lin Mo, a graduate student in folklore, unexpectedly obtains a yellowed book called The Records of the Yin Lodge and is forced to become an official who records affairs along the boundary between yin and yang.

He is invited into a century-old mansion known as the Ghost House, home to seven tenants of very different temperaments: a melancholy writer with an antique pocket watch, a Miao woman with a tattoo on her neck, a butcher's descendant who is always sharpening knives at midnight, a mute girl holding a doll, a blind musician who burns incense and plays the qin, a retired forensic pathologist who records deaths, and a woman in a qipao who is forever dressing herself before a mirror.

Rule one of the lease: Do not leave your room after midnight.

Rule two: Do not ask about anyone else's past.

Rule three: Do not damage any of the mansion's old objects.

When Lin Mo discovers that the mansion itself is a living record of folklore, each room sealing away a forgotten terrifying folk custom, and that each of the seven tenants has secrets they cannot reveal, he must unravel a century-old curse and find a third way between the extinction of folklore and the choices of human nature.