Asian Ghost Stories

I do not know what compelled me to give this a shot, but I am glad I did. I have mentioned often that I am not a big horror fan, and this book was more than just the stories themselves. I foolishly tried to track the chapters and give individual reviews like I do for other short stories until I realised the futility of such an endeavour. The stories range from a page to multiple pages long, and there are almost more than a hundred of them! The range of the collection is vast, the authors are both local and foreign, and the stories are from a variety of years. The style and content give some hints as to when and where the authors were based, but the book comes with a little bit of detail regarding the individual authors if the reader wanted to go down that rabbit hole. A couple of stories were familiar, but the majority of them were not. I think I enjoyed the foundation of the folklore and societies of the time and place more fascinating than the actual ‘ghosts’ (although they were there in every chapter). I may not be rating this very highly, but it is a unique collection. For the historical horror aficionado (or someone who thinks they might be), this is a good place to start. I received an ARC thanks to NetGalley and the publishers, but the review is entirely based on my own reading experience.