The Beautiful Corpse and the Knife-Seller

The day I was born, all things withered and disasters struck without end. To keep me alive, Grandpa made me spend every day with the female corpse in her coffin. Eighteen years later, Grandpa died mysteriously after leaving behind a prophecy about a knife sold on credit, but the incorruptible female corpse in the coffin...

The secret art of selling knives on credit, feng shui and divination, the Southern Maoshan and Northern horse shamans, the twelve zodiac animals, corpse-driving in western Hunan, the Flower Cave Maiden, Miaojiang witchcraft and curses, tattooing yin spirits, Nanyang black magic, the Ghost Gate of Fengdu, a hundred knives to raise a hundred ghosts, and bearing the family guardian spirits on one’s body...

There are endless tales of folk customs and strange wonders, and mysteries and schemes beyond telling...