Horror Fables draws from ancient Asian ghost tales, Buddhist hell scrolls, bestiaries, Hong Kong vampire films and supernatural anecdotes from my family, in order to satirize the disturbing climate of fear in contemporary culture. Featuring Ming Dynasty-inspired scroll paintings, the project emphasizes the disjunction between how fear is administered in folklore to encourage morality versus its deployment in modern society, where a pervasive climate of terror is used to further political and economic interests. The inclusion of familial accounts injects an element of the ‘real’ and personal into this surreal milieu.