On the Road to the Hell of Hungry Ghosts
ShortStory 7,226 words Recommended by 1 award/anthology source
Pan Bao, his daughter Jing, and their snake-devil friend, Mei Li, encounter a ghost who needs help. They usually expect to be paid for their sorcery, but the ghost is very persistent.
Content warnings 3
child-deathdeathviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on BCS, where the author gets the click.