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Xia Jia - A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight Clarkesworld Magazine has A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight, a rather wonderful story by Xia Jia (translated from the Chinese by Ken Liu) available for your reading in full.

It plays on Ghost Street, an entertainment district, staffed by robots (or are they?), animated by what used to be humans (or so they think?), made for humans. Except that these have stopped visiting - the only human is a boy who was left as a baby and is being looked after by the 'ghosts'.

Fascinating, well written, and ever so slightly creepy and unsettling I found. A story to enjoy, and a writer to watch!

The picture on the right is called Hyakki Yako (Hundred Demon Night Parade) and was painted by Jasmine Becket-Griffith. You can buy prints of it here.

 

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