The Jiangxi and the Evil Dead

In some ways relatable to western concepts of the zombie and the vampire this is the Jiangxi. And while Chinese mythology and folklore is filled with various ghosts and monsters this particular horror seems to emerge from a Qing dynasty crisis concerning the burial of the dead. While solutions finally emerged such as public cemeteries and coffin homes the specter of the Jiangxi remained in the Chinese imagination an abandoned and vengeful death. The 2007 track The Satanic Rights of Drugula by Electric Wizard paints exactly the sort of picture you might expect from this horror obsessed doom metal and stoner rock mainstay. They're also now featured in Dungeons and Dragons listed in 2021's Van Ripton's Guide to