ANN/THE STAR – Calling all book lovers wanting a little spook. If you’re not one to watch a horror movie or head down to a haunted house nearby, then nothing beats lying in bed with a scary good book and having chills run down your spine while you read past midnight. We have picked out […]
With Halloween coming up this Monday (Oct 24) , there’s no better time to indulge in some supernatural lore. You can visit a haunted site, or hit up the Hell’s Museum, but if you’d rather stay home this season, then why not curl up with a book about Singapore’s very own ghosts and ghouls. Suffian Hakim’s 2018 novel depicts the.
A Mosque In The Jungle is a best-of collection of Othman Wok s horror stories, which he wrote in Bahasa Malaysia for the Utusan Melayu newspaper and Mastika magazine (from the 1950s to 1960s). They were later translated into English in the 1980s. Photo: Epigram/Filepic
The dismembered body of a murdered woman is brought into the mortuary, her severed feet still adorned with brass bell anklets.
In the early hours of the morning, the coroner hears the tinkling of bells. To his horror, a pair of feet jump out from under the table, wearing the dead woman’s anklets, and run out of the door.
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