It's all hallows' eve coming up - so a demon for your delectation.

Nobody does demons quite like the Chinese. A part of a Chi Po story:


Do you see now why I dread to summon a dragon? I should have to emit a spell of the fifth magnitude and, who knows, bewitch the world beyond recall, beyond even my own powers.” Bu Fu closed his eyes in anguish and moaned.

There wasn’t much Chi Po could answer, but the more dangerous the matter looked, the more he really longed to take a close look at a dragon, for he had convinced himself (only much later would he grasp how wrong he was) that he could never paint one convincingly unless he had seen it with his own eyes. So he kept quiet, but he decided that he would ask for a small dragon when Bu Fu was in good spirits.

Actually Oscar Mandel - not Chinese at all - then again maybe it is.