Ravenous flying heads; demon masks that possess the wearer; faceless ghosts; goblin-rats, women made of snow; seductive statues; warrior monks; abandoned farmhouses; mountaintops and lonely roads…
In Edo period Japan, a night-time game of one hundred flickering candles and one hundred supernatural tales became a widespread folk phenomenon – Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai. After each teller finished their story, a candle would be extinguished, plunging the room, by small degrees, into a darkness filled with ever more hungry ghosts…
Superlative storytellers Tim Ralphs, Jesper La Cour, Sarah-Liisa Wilkinson, Steph Brittain, Mikke Oberg and others pay tribute to this unnerving folk custom with a night of haunting tales from around the world.
Join them as flickering flames illuminate the living whilst the encroaching shadows make space for the Dead.