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Zhiguai: Chinese True Tales of the Paranormal and Glitches in the Matrix

Discover the China that before now was only whispered about in the dark.

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Pub Date Jul 10 2021 | Archive Date Jul 26 2021


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Description

Available in paperback and ebook editions worldwide.

In this YA collection, award-winning writers and translators Yi Izzy Yu and John Yu Branscum share paranormal and glitch-in-the-matrix tales from across present-day China. Confided by eyewitnesses, these true stories uncannily echo Western encounters with chilling dimensions of reality and supernatural entities. At the same time, they thrillingly immerse the reader in everyday Chinese life and occult beliefs. 

Zhiguai: Chinese True Tales of the Paranormal and Glitches in the Matrix includes such accounts as:

     *The reincarnation of a teenager whose fate eerily mimics his predecessor’s

     *A girl who dies in the womb but nevertheless continues to communicate with her twin

     *Terrifying shifts into demonic parallel universes 

     *Walls desperately painted with blood to save a family from tragedy

     *Huge populations that disappear into thin air

     *The revenge-seeking ghosts of murdered cats 

     *Weird temporal shifts

     *Occult murders

     From the terrifying to the uncanny, this collection will not only change your understanding of China but of reality itself.


Note to ARC Readers

The following content warning will be present in the final copy of the book:

Content Warning Index

*Zhiguai

Yeye’s Girl [alcoholism, depression, suicide]

The King of Cats [animal abuse/violence]

A Student Visits the Future [trauma]

Not That Brother [death]

Twin Demon [death]

Third Uncle’s Apartment Is Not His Apartment [anxiety, verbal abuse]

The Substitute [animal sacrifice, death, physical assault, violence]

Peach Wood [infant abuse/death, misogyny]

Ballpoint Pen [murder/suicide]

*Book Sample Excerpt

Twice Goodbye [death]

Guests from the Sky [death]

Meat Vegetables [cannibalism and violence toward women]

Available in paperback and ebook editions worldwide.

In this YA collection, award-winning writers and translators Yi Izzy Yu and John Yu Branscum share paranormal and glitch-in-the-matrix tales from...


A Note From the Publisher


Yi Izzy Yu is a former college professor of English and Chinese and is currently a high school Chinese teacher. John Yu Branscum is a professor of creative writing and literature at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Their co-translations have appeared in such leading journals as New England Review, Wigleaf, and 3:AM Magazine.




Awards and Honors


*Finalist for the 2020 [Gabriel García Márquez] "Gabo" Award for Literature in Translation



*Selected for Strange Horizons' Samovar Quarterly Special Issue



*Rue Morgue Spotlight Authors


Yi Izzy Yu is a former college professor of English and Chinese and is currently a high school Chinese teacher. John Yu Branscum is a professor of creative writing and literature at Indiana...


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ISBN 9781953124067
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