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Midnight Chinese Ghost Stories: Spirits, Borrowed Skins, and Strange Tales from Old China, Retold for the Modern Night
Paperback
Series: Lantern in the Dark, Book 1
Publisher: Jade Ink Press
Published: Jul 6 2026
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Drawn from the classic tales of old China, the ghost stories and strange records that have haunted readers for over a thousand years, and retold in a voice made for reading after midnight. These stories are eerie, unsettling, and strangely alive, with occasional visceral moments.
Some will chill you to the bone.
One will make you laugh.
One or two may follow you home.
Step inside, if you dare:
- On a lonely road, a traveler allows a stranger to walk half a step behind him. By the time he learns what has truly been following him, there is nowhere left to run.
- A man ignores every warning and brings home a beautiful woman. Then he sees her true form, bent over a human skin, painting on a new face.
- A family is given one rule about the thing circling their courtyard after dark: don't look. Someone looks.
- A poor scholar accepts shelter in a fine house for the night. Too late, he discovers his host has already saved him a permanent seat at the table of the dead.
- A young man faces a ghost that expects him to tremble. Instead, he lies, laughs, and tricks his way toward sunrise.
Within these pages wait demons in borrowed skin, curses that outlive the grave, lovers death cannot part, and debts that death only begins to collect.
Perfect for fans of Chinese folklore and mythology, dark fairy tales, supernatural suspense, atmospheric horror, and eerie bedtime reading for adults.
Turn the page and step into a world where the strange, the wondrous, and the terrifying have waited a very long time to meet you.
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