Demons, Dreams, Ghosts, Hells: Asia (67 books)

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1	Escape From Blood Pond Hell: The Tales of Mulian and Woman Huang by Beata Grant (Translator) 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
1	The Chinese Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Legends by Tao Tao Liu 3.61 avg rating — 418 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Buddhism and Tales of the Supernatural in Early Medieval China: A Study of Liu Yiqing's (403–444) Youming lu (Sinica Leidensia, 114) by Zhenjun Zhang liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Hidden and Visible Realms: Early Medieval Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic by Zhenjun Zhang (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Hungry Ghosts by Andy Rotman really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	The Ghost Festival in Medieval China by Stephen F. Teiser 4.23 avg rating — 31 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China by Robert Ford Campany 4.60 avg rating — 20 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Wandering Spirits: Chen Shiyuan’s Encyclopedia of Dreams by Richard E. Strassberg 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	The Dreaming Mind and the End of the Ming World by Lynn A. Struve 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Resurrected Skeleton: From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun by Wilt L. Idema 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Scripture on the Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism by Stephen F. Teiser 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Travels in the Netherworld: Buddhist Popular Narratives of Death and the Afterlife in Tibet by Bryan J. Cuevas 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Buddhist Cosmology: Philosophy and Origins by Akira Sadakata 3.80 avg rating — 59 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Three Worlds According to King Ruang: A Thai Buddhist Cosmology by Frank E. Reynolds (Translator) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE–800 CE (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series) by Robert Ford Campany 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	A Garden of Marvels: Tales of Wonder from Early Medieval China by Robert Ford Campany 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Signs from the Unseen Realm: Buddhist Miracle Tales from Early Medieval China by Robert Ford Campany 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Mortality in Traditional Chinese Thought by Amy Olberding (editor) 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	The Shadow Book of Ji Yun: The Chinese Classic of Weird True Tales, Horror Stories, and Occult Knowledge by Yun Ji 4.28 avg rating — 151 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Duke of Zhou's Interpretation of Dreams by Zhou Gong liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Chinese Hells: The Peking Temple of Eighteen Hells and Chinese Conceptions of Hell by Anne Swann Goodrich it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	A Journey Through Chinese Hell: Hell Scrolls of Taiwan by Neal Donnelly 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Voices from the Underworld: Chinese Hell Deity Worship in Contemporary Singapore and Malaysia by Fabian Graham it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Hell in Japanese Art by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka (Artist) 4.59 avg rating — 34 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Buddhist Hell: Visions, Tours and Descriptions of the Infernal Otherworld by Eileen Gardiner really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Buddhist Hells: The Northern Tradition by Ineke Van Put 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Buddhist Visions of Heaven and Hell In Thai Art: Patrick D. McMakin and Michael A. Calabrese by Patrick D. McMakin 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	The Cult of the Dead in a Chinese Village by Martin Emily 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Mooncakes and Hungry Ghosts: Festivals of China by Carol Stepanchuk 3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Indian Demonology: The Inverted Pantheon by Narendra Nain Bhattacharyya 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Book of Demons by Nanditha Krishna 3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	The Book of Indian Ghosts by Riksundar Banerjee 3.70 avg rating — 77 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Classical Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic by Karl S. Y. Kao 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Tales of Vengeful Souls: A Sixth Century Collection of Chinese Avenging Ghost Stories by Alvin P. Cohen (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The Discourse on Fox/Ghost by Leo Tak-Hung Chan 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	War and Shadows: The Haunting of Vietnam by Mai Lan Gustafsson 3.95 avg rating — 59 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Chinese Demon Tales: Meanings and Parallels in Oral Tradition by Ping-Chiu Yen 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 65, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	The Age of Wild Ghosts: Memory, Violence, and Place in Southwest China by Erik Mueggler 4.29 avg rating — 63 ratings score: 64, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Ghosts and Religious Life in Early China by Mu-Chou Poo 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 63, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Life and Afterlife in Ancient China by Jessica Rawson 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	The Culture of Ghosts- Readings of Chinese Cultural Knowledge by Li Wen Yu 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Japanese Ghosts and Demons: Art of the Supernatural by Stephen Addiss 4.29 avg rating — 156 ratings score: 60, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends by Michiko Iwasaka 3.74 avg rating — 96 ratings score: 59, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Staging the Supernatural: Ghosts and the Theater in Japanese Prints by Kit Brooks 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 58, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Something Wicked from Japan: Ghosts, Demons & Yokai in Ukiyo-e Masterpieces (PIE Ukiyo-e Series) by Ei Nakau 4.41 avg rating — 231 ratings score: 57, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Yurei: The Japanese Ghost by Zack Davisson (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 393 ratings score: 56, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai by Michael Dylan Foster 4.01 avg rating — 176 ratings score: 55, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore by Michael Dylan Foster 3.97 avg rating — 1,841 ratings score: 54, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Japanese Demon Lore: Oni from Ancient Times to the Present by Noriko T. Reider 4.16 avg rating — 55 ratings score: 53, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Ghosts, Monsters and Demons of India by Rakesh Khanna really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings score: 52, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	Hindu Hell: Visions, Tours and Descriptions of the Infernal Otherworld (Hell-on-Line E-Books) by Eileen Gardiner (2013-10-08) by Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 51, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Death in Ancient China: The Tale of One Man's Journey by Constance A. Cook really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 50, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Rage and Ravage: Gods of Medieval Japan, Volume 3 by Bernard Faure 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 49, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations by Bryan J. Cuevas (Editor) 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 48, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Believing in Ghosts and Spirits: The Concept of GUI in Ancient China by Baozhu Hu 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 47, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Many Faces of Mulian: The Precious Scrolls of Late Imperial China (Modern Language Initiative Books xx) by Rostislav Berezkin 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 46, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	Redefining History: Ghosts, Spirits, and Human Society in P'u Sung-ling's World, 1640-1715 by Chun-shu Chang 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 45, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale by Judith T. Zeitlin 4.47 avg rating — 30 ratings score: 44, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture by Richard von Glahn 4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings score: 43, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	The Phantom Heroine: Ghosts and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature by Judith T. Zeitlin 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings score: 42, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	Shadows in a Chinese Landscape by David Keenan 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 41, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	For Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors: The Chinese Tradition of Paper Offerings by Janet Lee Scott 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 40, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	Censored by Confucius: Ghost Stories by Yuan Mei by Yuan Mei 4.03 avg rating — 61 ratings score: 39, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	India's Most Haunted: Tales of Terrifying Places by K. Hari Kumar (Goodreads Author) 3.47 avg rating — 197 ratings score: 38, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk: Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand by Justin Thomas McDaniel 4.43 avg rating — 42 ratings score: 37, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	Peony Lantern Tales: Ghostly Encounters in the Early Modern Sinosphere by Joo 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 36, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	Of Gods, Gifts and Ghosts: Spiritual Places in Urban Spaces by Terence Heng 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 35, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars