Although Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio does not lack for beautiful ghosts, in popular legend their beauty is just a disguise; their real features are hideous and terrible, an impression confirmed in the common expression "as ugly as a ghost."
雖然聊齋中不乏美麗的鬼，但在通常的民間傳奇中，鬼的美麗外形只是偽裝，露出真面目時都是獰惡恐怖；而一般我們常罵人「醜得像鬼」，可見在人們心中，鬼還是屬於醜惡猙獰的一類。