Story 3: The Painted Wall    by Pu Songling
Price: Free! 1530 words. Published by Broomhandle Books on November 4, 2012. .
This Smashwords edition of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was transcribed from the 1908 Second Edition of a translation by Herbert A. Giles. Broomhandle Books has edited them with a more modern format, including punctuation and styling, to make them more accessible to a reader in this e-book format. In addition, Chinese personal and place names have been rendered into modern pinyin.