Tales of the Paranormal in Southern Shandong: The Liang Stele Hides a Malignant Spirit

On the old street in Fei County stands an unremarkable carpenter's shop. The owner, surnamed Shen, makes ordinary coffins and burial caskets, but takes on anything but ordinary work. As the old saying in southern Shandong goes: “A crooked ridgepole brings calamity on three generations; a gravestone against the door steals the souls of the living.”