When I first started reading it, I had no idea what to expect. I try to start every book without many expectations, this way I can't really get too disappointed. This companion connects Asian mythology to the lives of Asian Horror/Ghost Story Writers in a series of intensely personal and emotional essays rather than simply a collection of ghost stories. Which I actually hoped for.
It was interesting reading about the background of all those ghost stories, which always star a female ghost. But unfortunately, I don't really know all those stories which were marked. Or maybe I did hear of some of them, but just a slightly different version. As it is with all kind of mythological creatures, every culture has them in a slightly different version.
It was quite interesting reading about the writers' backgrounds, but nevertheless I hoped for more ghost story time. ( )

When I first started reading it, I had no idea what to expect. I try to start every book without many expectations, this way I can't really get too disappointed. This companion connects Asian mythology to the lives of Asian Horror/Ghost Story Writers in a series of intensely personal and emotional essays rather than simply a collection of ghost stories. Which I actually hoped for.
It was interesting reading about the background of all those ghost stories, which always star a female ghost. But unfortunately, I don't really know all those stories which were marked. Or maybe I did hear of some of them, but just a slightly different version. As it is with all kind of mythological creatures, every culture has them in a slightly different version.
It was quite interesting reading about the writers' backgrounds, but nevertheless I hoped for more ghost story time. ( )

FYI Review - This book of essays on Asian horror contains the following:
-Foreword
-Displaced Spirits: Ghosts of the Diaspora by Lee Murray
-Fox Daughter by Celine Murray
-Some Things Are Dangerous, But Can Be Lived With: The Ghost Baby of Malaysian Mythology by Geneve Flynn
-The Substitute by Yi Izzy Yu
-The Unvoiced, The Unheard, The Unknown, The Unquiet by Ai Jiang
-Thai Spirits & Longing to Belong by I.A.W. McCarthy
-Lucky Numbers, or Why 28 > 58 by Eliza Chan
-Fallen Leaves, New Soil by Yvette Tan
-Lady Nak of Phra Khanong: A Life Inspired by the Female Duality Archetype by Rena Mason
-Becoming Ungovernable: Latah, Amok, and Disorder in Indonesia by Nadia Bulkin
-Holy Revelations by Grace Chan
-Hungry Ghosts in America by Vanessa Fogg
-100 Liver by K.P. Kulski
-Plant a Cherry Tree Over My Grace by Kivomi Appleton Gaines
-Belonging to Fear by Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito
-The Demon-Haunted Girl by Christina Sng
-The Agency of Modern Kunoiche by Tori Eldridge
-Ghost Month in Taiwan by Benebell Wen
-tethered chokeholds by doungiai gam
-Sightings by Gabriela Lee
-Tearing Ourselves Apart: The Nukekubi by Angela Yuriko Smith