Staging a ghost story

There's a Chinese saying that goes: Grave robbers should place a candle in the tomb's southwest corner.

If the flame flickers out, it's because the deceased is angry about the intrusion and the thieves must return everything to where they found them.

This idea rules the narratives of the popular novel series, Gui Chui Deng (Ghost Blows Out the Lights), by Zhang Muye, who's better known by his pen name Tianxia Bachang.