Strange stories from a Chinese Studio, by Pu Songling || Masterpiece Collection || Audiobook by LA CASE Books.

With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 62 stories in this selection from The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems.

Here a Taoist monk conjures up a magical pear tree, a scholar recounts his previous incarnations, a woman out-foxes the fox-spirit that possesses her, a child bride gives birth to a thimble-sized baby, a ghostly city appears out of nowhere and a heartless daughter-in-law is turned into a pig.

In his tales of humans coupling with shape-shifting spirits, bizarre phenomena, haunted buildings and enchanted objects, Pu Songling pushes back the boundaries of human experience and enlightens as he entertains.