Is the ghost story the oldest literary type? Every culture possesses myths about interactions between the living and the dead, often in the form of a journey to the underworld or a visitation from “hungry ghosts” (a literal translation of èguǐ, a term from the ancient Chinese tradition). I might even claim the spread of spiritual belief systems is impos…
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