This room holds the lore of the Chinese pantheon itself — who the gods are, where each one came from, and the work of those whose office is to put the crooked down.

The Gods of the Three Teachings is the Ming illustrated compendium of the whole pantheon: some hundred and thirty biographies of gods, immortals, marshals, and wonder-working monks, opening with Confucius, the Buddha, and Laozi as the three source-streams and running through the Jade Emperor, Guanyin, Mazu, Guan Yu, Zhong Kui, and Nezha, with the 1909 editor Ye Dehui's text-critical postface. For centuries it has been the quiet source behind Chinese god-lore. Beside it stands The Tale of Slaying Ghosts, Liu Zhang's early-Qing comic novel in which Zhong Kui the demon-queller, cheated of first place in the examinations, is commissioned by the Jade Emperor to hunt down the ghosts no law can reach — the Windbag, the Pennypinch, the Brazenface — the vices of humankind walking in ghost-shape.

Both are Good Works Translations made directly from the Chinese, and each carries its complete source text beneath the English.