Eminent Chinese scholar John Minford's superb translation captures the consummate skill and understated humor of Pu Songling's classic Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (also known as Strange Tales from Liaozhai). With elegant prose, witty wordplay, and
Macabre tales of the supernatural and taboo from 1600’s China, by prodigious scholar Po Chung-Ling, founding father of Hip-Horror. Cultish and banned in its time, obscure for the most part of 20th Century, a classic today. Ethereal, romantic, gruesome,
'...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.' Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories, including 'The Golden Goblet', 'Scorched Moth the Daoist' and 'The Black Beast' Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for
