Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio
Eerie and Fantastic Chinese Stories of the Supernatural (164 Short Stories)
Tuttle Publishing · Print & ebook · March 14, 2017
Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century.
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- Who it’s for
- A compact, eerie sampler of classical Chinese supernatural storytelling, easy to dip into and revisit.
- Genres
- Chinese Literary Collections, Short Stories (Single Author), Ghost Stories
- Published
- Tuttle Publishing, March 14, 2017
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Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century. These tales of ghosts, magic, vampirism, and other things bizarre and fantastic are an excellent Chinese companion to Lafcadio Hearn's well-known collections of Japanese ghost stories Kwaidan and In Ghostly Japan.
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Already a true classic of Chinese literature and of supernatural tales in general, this new edition of the Herbert A. Giles translation converts the work to Pinyin for the first time and includes a new foreword by Victoria Cass that properly introduces the book to both readers of Chinese literature and of hair-raising tales best read with the lights turned low on a quiet night. Some of the stories found in these pages include: - The Tiger of Zhaocheng - The Magic Sword - Miss Lianziang, the Fox-Girl - The Quarrelsome Brothers - The Princess Lily - A Rip Van Winkle - The Resuscitated Corpse - Taoist Miracles - A Chinese Solomon
Strange and Brief
A compact, eerie sampler of classical Chinese supernatural storytelling, easy to dip into and revisit.
Come here for
- 164 compact supernatural tales
- A reference shelf with a folkloric lean
Expect
- Brief, self-contained stories
- A literary, slightly old-world cadence
Where it sits
| Chinese Literary Collections | 67% |
|---|---|
| Ghost Stories | 60% |
| Short Stories (Single Author) | 48% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Ghost Stories
- Horror
- Chinese Literary Collections
- Authors
- Pu Songling, Herbert A. Giles, Victoria Cass
- Publisher
- Tuttle Publishing
- Published
- March 14, 2017
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Ghost Stories