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My Lovely Skull and Other Skeletons

By Tunku Halim
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My Lovely Skull and Other Skeletons brings together fifteen nightmarish tales from the award-winning Prince of Darkness, Tunku Halim. These spine-chilling stories feature bone-jangling skeletons and chilling characters: a hungry old woman who roasts her victims, a grieving man driven by vengeful violence, a nurse with deadly intentions, a wife-battering husband confronted by a vampire, a diva-wannabe resorting to poison, a disastrously failed exorcism, and a teenager obsessing over a skull found on a beach, among others. Each tale promises to draw readers into dark dungeons of horror and supernatural dread.
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Fifteen nightmarish tales from the award-winning Prince of Darkness

Skeletons Await ...

Bones jangling as they grinningly emerge.

Meet a hungry old woman who roasts her victims; a grieving man intent on vengeful rape and murder; a nurse who buys geckos to kill her lover; a wife-battering husband who encounters a blood-sucking vampire; a diva-wannabe who must poison her friends; an exorcism gone horribly wrong; a teenager fatally obsessed with his beach-discovered skull; and many more!

These and other skeletons await your pleasure. Nightmarish, spine-chilling tales ready to embrace and draw you into their deepest dungeons.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9789815058161

Publisher: Penguin Random House SEA

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 May 2023

Country: Singapore

Imprint: Penguin Random House SEA

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 262g

Pages: 230

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About the Author

Tunku Halim is a Malaysian novelist, short story, non-fiction writer and lawyer. His novel Vermillion Eye was a study text at the National University of Singapore. By delving into Malay myth, legends and folklore, his writing is regarded as 'World Gothic'. His novel, Last Breath, is seen as taking a step away from the genre into 'a mixture of character drama, satire, alternate history, and magic realism'.

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