Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic,Strange Tales from a Chinese Studiois a collection of supernatural tales compiled by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century. Full of stories of ghosts, magic, vampirism and other things bizarre and fantastic, this classic of Chinese literatureand of supernatural tales in generalhas been revised and updated, and includes pinyin for the first time.Strange Tales from a Chinese Studiois for anyone who loves hair-raising stories best read with the lights turned low on a dark and stormy night.

Songling Pu, 1640û1715, was an author of ChinaÆs Qing Dynasty. He spent the bulk of his life working as a private tutor, during which time he collected the stories published to great acclaim as Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.

Herbert A. Giles (1845û1935) was one of the most acclaimed sinologists of his era and the Chair of Chinese at Cambridge. He is one of the creators of the ôWade-Gilesö system of romanization, the author of several Chinese-English dictionaries, and translator of numerous classics, such as Gems of Chinese Literature.