From *Liaozhai*, this light‑toned tale tells of fearless Old Man Sun catching a shape‑shifting fox‑spirit that causes sleep paralysis. The fox shrinks and swells its body, then mysteriously slips away before he can kill it.
“Biting the Ghost” blends horror with everyday domestic life. The old man’s quick thinking (pretending to sleep, then biting) turns him from a passive victim into an active fighter – a rare moment of agency against supernatural terror. The story also plays on the tension between belief and scepticism, and the uneasy boundary between…