From the British Fantasy Society:
This Qingming—or “Tomb-Sweeping Day”, the day every year when Chinese families visit the tombs of their ancestors to clean the gravesites and make ritual offerings to ancestors—Xueting C. Ni reflects on the unique sense of Chinese horror, and why its stories remain under-explored.
https://britishfantasysociety.org/on-chinese-horror-storytelling/
Sinophagia curated by Ni Xueting was...an experience. It definitely deserved better editing.
3/5: The book offers content warning for each story, a chapter that’s opened with a dry remark along the lines of, “This is horror. If you’re reading this, you should expect, you know, horror.” Each story has end notes that discuss the themes of the story. Apparently some people find that annoying but I found it interesting. All in all…hm. The stories themselves varied from okay to ohhhhmy-this-was-good. Some were mostly melancholy without any horror elements (or at least any horror elements my Western eyeballs could catch), some were deliciously creepy and disturbing from the start. POV’s we...
Lauren McMenemy
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