A black-and-white manga cover for Corpse Transformation from Liaozhai featuring a terrified traveler whispering "Play dead!" while a creepy silhouette lurks in the dark doorway of a desolate inn.
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Corpse Transformation｜Strange Tales｜English Comic Edition

2026-10-03

In a lonely inn, the dead stir, and fear tears open life’s fragile boundary.

A 5-panel comic page introducing four travelers arriving at a desolate mountain inn at dusk, greeted by a deathly pale innkeeper holding a lantern. A 5-panel comic page where the travelers notice an unsealed coffin in a side room, are warned by the innkeeper, and lie awake nervously at night as wind howls outside A 5-panel comic page showing the coffin lid popping open, a pale corpse rising, and the lead traveler hurriedly ordering his companions to drop to the floor and play dead. A 5-panel comic page depicting the rigid corpse entering the guest room, pacing among the motionless travelers, and leaning down to sniff the terrified second traveler. A 5-panel comic page where the corpse walks away undetected, and at dawn the surviving travelers inspect the empty coffin in panic. A 5-panel comic page showing the travelers fleeing the deserted inn, a storyteller recounting the legend in a teahouse, and a final shot of the inn at sunset with an eye lurking in the doorway.

Original story: Pu Songling, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

Adaptation: Madefrom.hk

Format: English Comic 

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