\"...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.\" Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories, including \"The Golden Goblet\", \"Scorched Moth the Daoist\" and \"The Black Beast\" Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin\"s 80th birthday....

The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems....

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible....