Midnight Terror

Author: Geng Xiaoyu
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book compiles over twenty short and brilliant stories. Each story features unpredictable characters and plots; a scene, a fragment, a tangle of emotions, are both from the underworld and realistic; both spiritual and tangible. They will pull you in, and then send you out. "That evening, I received my passport brought by a public carriage from Rome, and the next morning, it set off for Naples. As we passed through the suburbs of Naples, a tall monk wearing a tattered overcoat approached. He looked like a beggar, with two holes in his mask revealing his eyes. He held a tin money box in his hand and held it out to passersby, inside of which were a few coins clinking. He repeatedly repeated in a monotonous voice, 'Please, please!' I don’t believe in the doctrine of purgatory, nor do I believe in prayers for the dead, but when I thought of the blasphemous burials in the woods, I dropped a silver coin into the box, and my heartfelt prayer rose slowly—‘May the soul rest in peace!’"