How the pandemic and Penang inspired Tunku Halim's new horror collection
Tunku Halim returns with a new dark fiction anthology, written during the pandemic in George Town
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Tunku Halim returns with a new dark fiction anthology, written during the pandemic in George Town
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 […]
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Tunku Halim's 'The Midnight Children' trilogy is a series of dark fantasy novels for children combining Asian mythology and Gothic elements. Photo: Penguin When you think about horror fiction and dark fantasy in Malaysia, Tunku Halim is a name to crop up first on any blood-stained list. Since the 1990s, the 56-year-old author – with a legal background – has been spooking readers with his brand of "world gothic" tales and collections, including Dark Demon Rising, Horror Stories and Scream To The Shadows In these pandemic times, Tunku Halim has put on a new - frightful -mask and taken o...