The world of Pu Songling is mysterious and magical: fox spirits get married to humans and have children, a young man and the ghost of a young woman, who died long ago, meet and fall in love; a man remembers his past lives as a horse, a dog and a snake; after an earthquake people stand around on the ruined streets, talking frantically with no clothes on.

At the heart of these stories is the imagination of the travelling storyteller. These stories walked from village to village hundreds of years ago, in China, and Pu Songling captured them and wrote them down.

Now we have the good fortune to tell them again.