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Today is the Zhongyuan Festival, the Zhongyuan Festival is an important traditional festival of ancestor sacrifice handed down in ancient China, and it also has a nickname called "Ghost Festival" in the folk. Therefore, in such a special festival, Xiao K also prepared a special mid-yuan festival book list for everyone.
This book list contains some ghost cultures in ancient and modern China and abroad, as well as mysterious folk customs, more exciting and brain-burning ghost mystery novels and some horror suspense masterpieces ~ and they are all very classic high-scoring books, and bonsy friends who are interested in this type of content do not miss this book list!
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"The First Thing to Do"
Author | Shinzo Mitsuda
The village of Yuanshou is located in the deep mountain valley of Okutama, and the secret keepers have been responsible for governing the area for generations. At the wedding house assembly of the secret keeper, the eldest man who has just turned twenty-three years old must choose his bride from among the three candidates. However, during the ceremony, one of the candidates was brutally killed and the head of the corpse was missing. The biggest suspect, Changshou Lang, also disappeared from the scene. Next, more headless corpses appeared... What kind of secrets are hidden behind all this? The Challenge Book for All Readers is here!
"Sacrifices for the Spirits"
Daocheng Yanye was instigated by his grandfather Jiang Kai to visit the village of Calf Yu, which was closed by the sea cliff. This was followed by a number of unsolvable mysteries. And all the cases are similar to the strange talk in the village. After visiting and exploring, Daocheng Yanye gradually grasped the truth of the incident. At this moment, the village has undergone incredible changes. Daocheng Yanye's latest long-form work.
The Box of the Rays
Author | Natsuhiko Kyoba
The girl, who was seriously injured by the tram, was taken to the medical research institute and disappeared from her hospital bed under the eyes of everyone. At the same time, the Sagami Lake corpse murder case has spawned a series of dismembered killings. Are the rays lurking in the shadows?
Two beautiful girls who do not seem to eat human fireworks go to the lake at night to enjoy the moonlight, but one of the girls accidentally falls off the car and is seriously injured. Kiba, a criminal police officer who inadvertently took the same bus to work, took over the case under the exhaustion of force, but accidentally found that the relatives of the seriously injured girl were the actresses he had secretly loved for many years. On the one hand, Kiba forced himself to press his inner emotions to float, but on the other hand, he was also deeply involved in a difficult case. After being sent to a box-shaped building, the badly injured girl disappeared out of thin air in full view of everyone...
Evil Spirit Island
Author | Yokozuna Masashi
"Evil Spirit Island" is the 20th case of Kaneda's Detective Collection, and is a masterpiece of novels in the later stages of Yokomizu Masashi's creative career. The story stage once again moved to the island of Okayama, and the famous family once again became the core of the case. After many years in the United States, Yue Zhi Ryuhei returned to his hometown of Jibu Island, ready to invest heavily in the revitalization of the economy, but his men died on the island, leaving a strange last word. Kaneda Kazunosuke was commissioned by Ryuhei to investigate, and thus became acquainted with the two major families of the island's Punishment Department and Yuechi. At this time, a fire broke out in the festival of the island's execution shrine, and after extinguishing the fire, it was found that the priest had been penetrated by a golden arrow and died, leaving behind a beautiful wife and twin daughters. The Isokawa Police Department, which was in charge of the case, seemed to have concealed important evidence against the suspects...
Fictional Reasoning Short Stories
Author | Seonghei Kyo
Iwanaga Kotoko, who is known as the "God of Wisdom" by the youkai, received an investigation commission from the Great Serpent, the god of water, who did not know how many years he had lived. The great serpent wants Kotoko to help him solve the mystery of the motives of the prisoners who discard corpses in the swamps he inhabits. Having just solved the commission of the great snake, the tanuki cats living in the mountains came to the door again, and in order to promote their own udon noodles, they accidentally created a perfect alibi for the prisoners. Challenging the truth with fictional lies, Iwanaga Kotoko returns.
"Barbecue Strange Talk"
Author | Cai Bigui
Cai Bigui, a down-and-out third-line novelist, accidentally met The mysterious barbecue shopwoman Chu Ye and accepted a strange commission - every Wednesday night to the restaurant to listen to a bizarre story of "personal experience" and record it. These people seem ordinary, and only in the barbecue restaurant late at night will they spit out the terrible secrets they hide in their hearts...
The fallen man who was hunted down by aliens but unexpectedly gained 80 million yuan is actually a professional life trainer of the deceased, a magician who bets on love to carry out a deadly magic game, aphasia patient who has been miraculously cured since returning from the mountains of Tibet, and an otaku subspecies who is asked by his online girlfriend who loves to listen to ghost stories to appear at ten o'clock in the night...
The mysterious diners who arrive quietly in the middle of the night tell 28 mysterious events that they have "personally experienced". Under the intricate lies, the truth is waiting for you to restore!
Ghosts of a Lonely Island
Author | The Edogawa river is chaotic
"Ghost of the Lonely Island" includes two novels, "The Ghost of the Lonely Island" and "The Strange Talk of Banorama Island". "My" beloved woman has mysteriously passed away. "I" vowed to find out the real culprit for her. She left behind a weird family tree as a clue. According to the family tree, in the process of continuous investigation, the strange secret room incident, the stabbing incident in the crowd... Events happened like a curse. Lies, sorrow, madness, the death of my poor woman, took me step by step to that mysterious island.
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The Shining
Author | Stephen king
Jack Torrance, an amateur writer, was unemployed and embarrassed in middle age. In order to support his family, he chose to be a temporary administrator in the old mountain restaurant that was closed off by heavy snow in winter and isolated from the world. So as the hotel was preparing to close for the winter, Jack took his wife, Wendy, and son Danny to the Panorama Hotel in Colorado.
Five-year-old danny is born with an ability to sense foreboding— the "Shining Spirit." Before the family set off, he had nightmares and dreamed of ominous omens. Ever since Jack's family moved into the Panorama Hotel, bizarre and bizarre events have occurred one after another: swarms of wasps killed by insects are revived, green hedges cut in the shape of animals are stirring, and footsteps are heard in the deserted room...
The Myth of Klusu
Author | H.P. Lovecraft
The Cthulhu Mythos, hailed as the great and influential horror fiction system of the 20th century, was written by H.P. Lovecraft — or "Love Craftsmanship."
Suppose you have an ant crawling at your feet, and you don't care if you step on it or not, because it's too small, dead or alive, it doesn't matter to you. In the eyes of the ancient evil gods described in the "Cthulhu Mythos", humans are the ants.
The "cosmology" advocated by Lovecraft, that is, human beings are far from the masters of the world, and in the unknown universe that has not yet been explored, there are unimaginable, indescribable horror truths, which can make people fall into madness or death at a glance. As the author himself puts it: "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear; and the oldest and strongest fear is the fear of the unknown."
Book of the Dead
When you open the Book of the Dead, another world comes flooding in, the old rulers, evil gods, self-immolations, living dead, resurrectionists, hybrid mermaids, alien creatures, soul swapping, ghouls... Nearly 80 works contain all of Lovecraft's fantastic ideas! One of the most impressive is the "Cthulhu Mythos" system pioneered by Lovecraft, where dozens of novels are in the same vein, creating a grand, mysterious, and eerie alternate world.
In that world, mentally fragile people are having strange dreams, in which giant objects up to several miles long are wandering around with heavy steps; a strange statue that appears at the American Archaeological Conference evokes the horrific memories of an archaeologist experiencing demonic worship; And Inspector LeGrass captures a group of voodoos who perform blasphemous sacrifices in a swamp forest...
"Screws are tightening"
Author | Henry james
Screws Tighten is one of Henry James's most important novellas and one that embodies the artistic charm of his superb novella. On Christmas Eve, a few friends sat around the stove and told the ghost stories they heard bored. One of them told the story of a governess in the suburbs who was haunted by ghosts. Everything seemed mundane, but everything became vivid and delicate in Henry James's pen: only the governess could see "them"; only she suspected that the former schoolgirl was controlling the two children in the manor for some evil motive. Everyone thought she was crazy, but the two children kept it secret. Why did the little girl never acknowledge the figure standing clearly on the shore of the lake? Is the little girl confused, or is the female teacher delusional? The author is not in a hurry to reveal the answer immediately, but the back is cold, the screws are tightening...
Hell's List
Author | Grady Hendricks
Nazi leprechauns! Jewish Monster Bride! The Sex Witch of the Fourth Dimension! Carnivorous jellyfish! Mummies of ancient Vikings wandering around Manhattan! Flowing dead words, screaming covers! Danger lurks everywhere, if you dare to open this book - the hell book list.
No more despicable devils, no more absurd plots! Grady Hendrick poured out his sanity and madness to recount unspeakable and unspeakable stories, and the shock and surprise bombardment were bombarded, and if you couldn't help but open this book, the hell book list.
Horrible story synopsis! Incredible cover art! True stories from writers, artists, and publishers! They go against all the laws of literature and respect only one: always fun! Embark on a soul-stirring journey, if you're opening this one – the Hell Book List.
The Key to Death
Author | D.M. Puri
The First Bank of Cleveland, an abandoned building that has been intact, has been hiding amazing secrets for two decades.
In 1978, with the sudden disappearance of several employees and allegations of fraud received from the bank, "panicked" bank investors sold Cleveland's largest bank overnight, blocking information from customers and bank employees, while also "successfully" blocking a hair-trigger federal investigation. In this series of chaotic situations, the key to the vault is missing...
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"Strange Talk about a Hundred Things: The Beginning of events"
Author | Miyuki Miyabe
People who stare into the abyss are also stared at by the abyss, and those who listen to strange talk are also part of the strange talk. Are there really ghosts in this world? Are the frightening, lamentable ghosts, the unknowable ghosts, or our hearts?
Hyakugo is a game that emerged in Japan during the Edo period. On summer nights, light a hundred candles and sit around in the darkroom telling strange stories. A candle is blown out for each sermon. Legend has it that when all the candles are extinguished, a monster will appear.
The famous bag shop "Mishimaya" in the Edo period has a chess room "between black and white" surrounded by manjusha. One day, the young girl Ah Jin took the place of the shopkeeper who went out for some reason to entertain the chess friends. I didn't expect the other party to say that from the manjusha in full bloom in the courtyard, a human face was glimpsed. Then it tells a story that has been hidden in the heart for many years.
"The Son Doesn't Speak"
Author | Yuan mei
This book is a note-taking novel compiled by Yuan Ming during the Qing Dynasty, originally named "Zi Bu Shu", and later saw that the Yuan people said that there were similarities in the department, but it was changed to "New Qi Harmony". The stories in the book are derived from folk rumors, oral accounts of relatives and friends, the writings of others, the life of the world and the author's creation, and mostly write about ghosts and spirits, but also tell strange people and strange stories. With concise writing, realistic writing, and bizarre stories, Yuan Ming shows the strange world, and reveals many "evils" in ordinary life in a humorous and obscure way, involving morality, system, religion, customs, human nature and other aspects.
The Nether
Author | Koizumi Yakumo
This book contains 23 essays with the characteristics of Koizumi Yakumo, which talk about Japanese folk customs, legends of ghosts and gods, and even mysterious beliefs. This book is an exclusive collection of "Peony Lantern", one of Japan's three strange stories rewritten by Koizumi Yakumo and depicting the love of people and ghosts across life and death; the anthology "Zhen Sleeve" is based on the legend of the Ming Calendar fire, describing the image of the daughter of a rich merchant who fell in love with a simple guard at first sight and never forgot it, and eventually died of lovesickness, and the story of the destruction of Edo castle by burning her vibrating sleeve. The author Koizumi Yakumo goes deep into the core of Japanese culture, observes Japan from the perspective of a Westerner, and looks at Japan from the perspective of the contrast between the East and the West, showing us a three-dimensional, multi-dimensional Japan in all aspects.
Strange Talk , Strange Tan
"Strange Talks and Strange Tales" contains a total of fifty-five strange stories, all of which are retelling and rewriting by Koizumi Yakumo according to the famous passages of Japanese classical literature, and are taken from many ancient Japanese books such as "Lying Strange Talk", "Night Window Ghost Talk", "Ten Teachings", "Tales of the Past and Present", "Tales of the Rainy Moon", "Ancient and Modern Writings", "Hundred Stories", "New Hundred Stories", etc. These stories of loneliness or loneliness in the dark are deeply rooted in the three ambiguities of Japanese literature. "Strange Talk And Strange Tan" is an indirect embodiment of Japanese history, but also carries the cultural beauty shared by the East, and the aesthetic realm of the fusion of Eastern and Western civilizations presented in the whole book has a high appreciation value and cognitive value.
Taiping Guangji Banknote
Author | Feng Menglong
"Taiping Guangji" is one of the large-scale books compiled in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty in China, with a total of 500 volumes and a catalogue of 10 volumes, based on more than 400 kinds of novels, notes, wild histories, barnyard texts, interpretations, and Taoist classics from the Han Dynasty to the early Song Dynasty, which can be regarded as a collection of ancient Chinese novels and can be called the "encyclopedia" of the Song Dynasty.
Its rich content and interesting content are the source of ancient Chinese "Zhiwei Legend" literature, and its influence on the literature of later generations is great. After the Song Dynasty, various fictional literary works such as scripts, miscellaneous dramas, and zhugong tones were mostly selected from the "Taiping Guangji" and performed.
"Yin Yang Division Fire Scroll"
Author | Dream pillow tapir
According to legend, during the Heian period of Japan, people, ghosts and demons coexisted. The Kane family mistakenly enters the ghost city and encounters Zhong'an, a servant who died of a misunderstanding. Since then, Zhong'an has followed the kanjia family and begged for money night and night.
Ming Nian found a fresh peach in the mountains and cured his seriously ill son, but he often saw an old woman creeping on the ground and came to ask for it. Tadasuke has a special ability, and the words he blurts out often become a reality, some people get sick because of it, and some people fall off their horses and die. He did not dare to say much, but in the middle of the night he heard a voice that forced him to say that the regent would fall and die.
In Heian Kyo at night, the sky is moving and strange things happen frequently. The peerless yin and yang master Abe Haruaki wanders between the yin and yang worlds, cracking the bizarre events between talking and laughing, and relieving people's ghosts.
Notes on Reading Wei Caotang
Author | Ji Yun
"Notes on Reading Wei Caotang" is a collection of classical literary notes and strange novels, which is a personal project that Ji Xiaolan quietly opened in his later years when the two government projects of "Siku Quanshu" and "Siku Quanshu General Catalog" were nearing the end, which can be called "the work of ji Xiaolan, a high-ranking worker" who touched the fish" and "did not hesitate to touch the fish". "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang" has the unique artistic characteristics of "graceful and elegant, full of natural interest", and is a classic work in the history of Chinese literature.
"Chatting with Zai Zhiyi"
Author | Pu
Liaozhai Zhiyi is a collection of short stories in literary style by Pu Songling in the Qing Dynasty. The author borrows the mouth of the flower demon, fox, god, and monster to say an ineffable "love" word between heaven and earth, which gives the novel a very profound taste of life, and is a strange book that must not be read.
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Witch Hunt
Author | Stacy Schiff
In the winter of 1692, in the small town of Salem near Boston, the niece of a priest began to convulse and scream, and then his daughter fell into the same state: twisting, trembling, rolling, spitting... The doctor arrives, the priest consults the files, and the woman next door divinates, all pointing to an ancient crime: witchcraft.
Soon, panic spread throughout the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and everyone was embroiled in a massive witch hunt. Neighbors accuse each other, parents betray each other, and priests, rich people, and high-ranking officials are also doomed. The witch hunt lasted nine months, with more than twenty people dying and nearly two hundred accused of being wizards. After the storm subsided, Salem seemed to have lost his memory and fell into a century-long silence...
The Devil of Ludane
Author | Ados Huxley
"The Devil of Ludane" records a huge unjust, false and wrongly decided case in European history. It took place in the mid-seventeenth century, after the end of the Dark Middle Ages and before the outbreak of the French Revolution. At that time, the parish of the small French town of Ludán was named Urbain Grandi, who was knowledgeable and well-mannered, but unfortunately he was also a lover and secretly owed a lot of debts. These scandals led him to take revenge on many people in Ludan, and the enemies were determined to take revenge on him.
Soon, a group of nuns from the local monastery were "possessed by the devil" and claimed that they were possessed by demons because Father Grandi had signed a pact with the devil and caused the demons to come to the middle and have sex with them. After trials in the inquisition and secular courts, Grandi was found guilty, not only physically tortured inhumanly, but eventually burned at the stake...
Battle at Night
Author | Carlo Günzburg
In the 16th century, a peculiar nocturnal activity flourished in the Friuli region of northwestern Italy, with legend that when a farmer born with fetal membranes fell into a deep sleep on certain nights, his soul would "fly" into the fields to "fight" with wizards to protect the harvest.
These men and women, named "Benandananti", literally mean "walkers of charity". Who is Benandananti? On the one hand they professed their opposition to witches, witches, and their evil machinations, and healed some of those who had been injured by the witches' infliction; on the other hand, like their imaginary enemies, they rode rabbits, cats, or other animals to mysterious night parties. However, their ritual of defending the fruits of their labor and praying for a good harvest was denounced by the Church as heretical witchcraft...
The Complete Book of Monsters
Author | Shigeru Mizuki
The Complete Book of Yokai contains 764 types of yokai and 112 kinds of gods, and tells the story of 19 legends related to hades that have circulated in Japan. Shigeru Mizuki's youkai was not imagined out of thin air, but was created in combination with his own ideas after consulting a large number of documents and ancient paintings. From yokai to gods, Shigeru Mizuki brings together legends, folklore, and myths from around Japan, accompanied by fantastic and creative illustrations, presenting readers with a world of yokai that is both real and illusory.
General Theory of Chinese Mythology
Author | Yuan Ke
This book is an important result of Mr. Yuan Ke's years of research on China's "generalized mythology" and the systematic sorting and in-depth analysis of literary mythological fragments in ancient books. Originally titled "Chinese Mythology Long Talk", Mr. Yuan Ke revised it in 1989 and renamed it "General Theory of Chinese Mythology", which is divided into "The Department of General Theory" and "Part of the Sub-Theory", a total of 99 articles. Starting from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the "Introduction Section" analyzes the origin of ancient myths, the relationship between myths and religion, fairy tales, history, literature, etc., and the process of flow, development, dispersal and collation of myths. The "Division of Theories" specifically analyzes the different versions of the mythological stories passed down from generation to generation, and the different faces of the famous mythological characters that are lesser known.
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Strange Beasts: Animal Illustrations of Mountains and Seas
Author | Lv Yang
In the spiritual world of Chinese, the Classic of Mountains and Seas has left an important imprint. This ancient zhiwei classic depicts a magnificent scroll of fantasy for Chinese who gradually focused on reality, and its colorful and unbridled imagination still affects the way we see the world even thousands of years later. Drawing on modern biological theories, "Strange Beasts: Animal Atlas of the Classic of Mountains and Seas" makes an innovative "scientific" analysis of the animal images recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and leads us back to the magical world in the eyes of the first people on the land of China with a unique perspective. Based on the ancient Chinese idea of the Five Worms, this series of books divides the animals in the Classic of Mountains and Seas into six categories: Mao, Feather, Kun, Scale, Silkworm and Yu, and hand-drawn hundreds of main visual diagrams and detailed decomposition maps for the 172 animals involved, which is a set of animal museum atlases with both artistic and scientific beauty.
"Town Tomb Beast"
Author | Cai Jun
The town tomb beast, a common monster in ancient tombs, has animal face antlers and different forms. It is a kind of haunting instrument for the emperor to guard the mausoleum underground palace and protect his soul from being disturbed.
Qin Beiyang, the last royal tomb-making craftsman in China, was accidentally born in the Tang Dynasty Cemetery Palace, carrying a deep hatred of the blood sea and carrying the stunt of heavenly craftsmanship. However, due to the demise of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the great changes in the world, he had to hide his name. Born in a chaotic world and fateful, Qin Beiyang was involved in the big era of waves and clouds, and partnered with the nine colors of the small town tomb beast.
From the imperial capital to the magic capital, from the imperial tomb to the isolated island, the Beiyang slaughtered the evil dragon; the ultimate showdown between the town tomb beast and the tomb robber, a fierce competition with the evil forces in the world, and the mystery of Gengzi's compensation of millions of treasures was solved!
"Ghost Blowing Lights"
Author | The world sings
"Ghost Blowing Lights: The Experience of Tomb Robbers" tells the story of ancient civilizations, lost treasures, and mysterious tombs. The nine-story demon tower under the Great Glacier of Kunlun Mountain, what is it here? Hidden ancient demon kings mausoleums, strange burial ditches, mysterious mica, nine underground "gold" towers, piled high dry skeletons in strange costumes. What unknown creatures are there? Fire ladybugs are coming, huge mysterious creeping monsters. A group of people are on the verge of survival! The story is led by a family heirloom secretary fragment, telling the story of three contemporary lieutenants who, in order to solve the mystery of the disappearance of the tribe, use feng shui secrets to interpret the pulse of the world's mountains and rivers, and find a dragon tower treasure hall lost in the depths of the earth. After all, those dragon-shaped tigers hiding, uncovering the sky, overturning the sea and overturning the river, are very different and vulgar, in the bizarre and strange underground world, the mystery of history is being unveiled layer by layer...
"Finding the Dragon" in "Ghost Blowing Lights II" has been adapted into a hit movie, which is directed by Ur Shan, supervised by Chen Guofu, and starring Chen Kun, Huang Bo, Shu Qi, Xia Yu and Liu Xiaoqing. The mystery of the cycle of life and death, the thousands of years of civilization that has passed away, the ancient ruins of dust, and the dragons lying on the vast earth guard all this. The river is gushing, the yellow sand is rolling, or the sea is mulberry field, what is hidden here? Where is the passage to the exit of the gate of eternal life where are the buried souls of life wandering and struggling? The group accidentally explores all these unknown mysteries, gradually uncovering the mysterious legends that lie behind them.
Notes on the Tomb Robber
Author | The third uncle of the Southern Sect
The Warring States Book, unearthed 50 years ago by Tufuzi (tomb robbers) in Changsha, records the location of a peculiar Warring States tomb, but the group of Tufuzi encountered a strange event underground and almost all died. 50 years later, the grandson of one of the tufuzi discovered this secret in his notes, gathered a group of experienced tomb robbers to go treasure hunting, no one thought that this ancient tomb had so many strange things: the seven-star coffin, the blue-eyed fox corpse, the hydra cypress. Who are the owners of this mysterious tomb, and whether they can find the real coffin...
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