The Painted Skin
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Liaozhai Zhiyi (Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio)
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Blurb
A gentle scholar shelters a beautiful runaway he finds weeping by the road, never guessing that the Taoist priest who warns him speaks of a thing that wears a painted human face like a garment. What follows is a slow, patient horror that ends in blood, and a demon's true face beneath the beauty.
About This Tale
- Source book:
- Liaozhai Zhiyi (Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio)
- Original author:
- Pu Songling (1640–1715)
- Translated by:
- Talecrypt Editorial
- Length:
- 3,785 words
- Further reading:
- Wikipedia ↗Wikipedia ↗
Chapters
The Maiden on the Road
Chapter 1The Taoist at the Temple Gate
Chapter 2The Crack in the Screen
Chapter 3What Hangs Above the Door
Chapter 4The Night It Came
Chapter 5The Exorcism
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