聊齋志異
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
Pu Songling 蒲松齡 · 1640–1715
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Nearly five hundred tales of fox spirits, ghosts, flower fairies and the people who meet them, written in compact classical Chinese by a country tutor who never passed the higher examinations. The supernatural is often kinder than the human world it visits. Pu Songling brought the old tale of the strange to its finest pitch; many entries run only a page.