The Story of Kao Yu: A Tor.com Original (English Edition)

"The Story of Kao Yu is a new fantasy short story by the legendary Peter S. Beagle which tells of an aging judge traveling through rural China and of a criminal he encounters. Of the story, Beagle says it comes out of a lifelong fascination with Asian legendry Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Indonesian all drawn from cultures where storytelling, in one form of another, remains a living art. As a young writer I loved everything from Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee mysteries to Lafcadio Hearn's translations of Japanese fairytales and many lesser-known fantasies. Like my story The Tale of Junko and Sayuri, The Story of Kao Yu is a respectful imitation of an ancient style, and never pretends to be anything else. But I wrote it with great care and love, and I'm still proud of it. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.