The Savory Supernatural: Strange Tales of Spirits and Beasts

From the Wei and Jin dynasties onward, China's folklore teems with bizarre tales of animal spirits, mischievous monsters, and bumbling ghosts. Flirtatious fox spirits seduce scholars only to reveal themselves as pigs. Shape-shifting dogs impersonate their masters. Roosters bewitch unsuspecting nobles. Even legendary general Yue Fei was rumored to be a reincarnated pig spirit! Meanwhile, ghosts haunt toilets only to get paper stuffed in their mouths, and the dead wander eternally without proper transit passes. A darkly humorous collection of ancient Chinese supernatural folklore where the line…