Off to listen to "Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisure", a #LibriVox #Audiobook of some (?) 15 #ChineseGhostStories.

My mild suspicion is that the Lodge of Leisure is an opium den.

I could claim that I'm doing background reading for the #JudgeDee stories. But I'm not really.

Becoming clear that one possibility for #WhatHappensAfterYouDie is that ghost stories can get made up about you. Beautiful young women seem especially prone to this fate.

Thinking of #DetectiveSeries I've enjoyed the most.

Ones that explore what it is to be #Humane seem to do it for me.

#JudgeDee
#MaryRussell and Sherlock Holmes
#Maigret
#RabbiSmall
#Cadfael

Got any others that explore the humane thing?

I've watching #JudgeDee's Mystery on Netflix, a Chinese historical whodunnit. Visually it is absolutely gorgeous (despite ropey CGI moments), and the stories are reasonably gripping, despite the poor quality of the translation and speed of the subtitles.

Other odd things: - the way the stories are chopped up seemingly randomly to fit a 45min/ep format (a new story, with title sequence, starts 30m in in ep12 for example).
- the call the hero "Magistrate Di" throughout
Worth a try though, I think

Fabled Lands: "The Absent Present"

https://fabledlands.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-absent-present.html

#RPG #Tékumel #JudgeDee