#351.2 – Strange Tales XI.2: The Body Won’t Behave

It’s one thing to go invading the resting places of the dead and reaping the well-deserved consequences of your own bad choices. But it’s a different kind of horror entirely when you don’t even need a shovel and the dead are perfectly capable of getting up all on their own. Hopping corpses, flying corpses, corpses sneaking out for a midnight rendezvous, and a few bodies that are still technically alive, but behaving very, very badly. So keep a broom handy... and a couple of bells... just in case. Because tonight, it turns out rigor mortis is... more of a suggestion...

Be sure to check out Arthur's Sleepy History Podcast:

https://open.spotify.com/show/4AMQOoqVGQVmbotdkcgn48?si=y72e22c0SuWPyyc8HM3YTw

Tonight’s Tales:

02:47 – “The Headless Horseman of Han” [漢武時蒼梧賈雍] – from Soushenji, Gan Bao
04:26 – “Half-Baked” [批殭尸頰] – from Zibuyu, Yuan Mei
07:13 – “Still Life” [畫工畫殭尸] – from Zibuyu, Yuan Mei
10:35 – “It’s So Necromantic” [兩殭尸野合] – from Zibuyu, Yuan Mei
14:25 – “Saved By the Bell” [飛殭] – from Zibuyu, Yuan Mei
18:29 – “Truly Offal” [抽腸] – from Liaozhai zhiyi, Pu Songling
22:03 – “An Empty Cocoon” [丐僧] – from Liaozhai zhiyi, Pu Songling
25:55 – “Some Assembly Required” [負屍] – from Liaozhai zhiyi, Pu Songling
28:06 – “Well, Well, Well...” [古瓶] – from Liaozhai zhiyi, Pu Songling

Major Works Cited:DeWoskin, Kenneth J., and J. I. Crump, Jr., trans. In Search of the Supernatural: The Written Record.
Pu Songling. The Annotated Strange Tales From A Chinese Studio. Translated by Park Jongho.
Pu Songling. Liaozhai zhiyi 聊齋志異.
Santangelo, Paolo, with Yan Beiwen. Zibuyu, “What the Master Would Not Discuss,” according to Yuan Mei (1716–1798): A Collection of Supernatural Stories.

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