Chilling Tales from Youyang, Part 3
Three more spooky stories from a ninth-century book of tales
Three more spooky stories from a ninth-century book of tales
A novelist discovers the power of words over life and death—from our issue “Contagion”
A moving and deceptively simple tale of the countryside—from our “Alpine Ambition” issue
The short story interweaves folklore with a modern setting to examine the relation between the spiritual and the secular
An isolated Danish literary retreat forces four writers to confront the perils of their craft
In this sci-fi tale, a soldier uses a talisman from the past to stay human—and pays a price for his decision
Writer Yang Fei captures the suffocating yet familiar patterns of domestic life in this enigmatic tale
Part 2 of Kang Fu’s whimsical modern take on “Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio”
In this short sci-fi tale, two friends take different paths to the future—but only one will make peace with the present
As a fading Chinese-American aristocrat meets the mainland’s nouveau riche, they discover that the more things change, the more they stay the same