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O Thiam Chin

Meihan Boey

Wen-yi Lee

Kelly Leow

Quek Shin Yi

Teo Kai Xiang

Dew M. Chaiyanara

Kimberly Lium

Tan Lixin

Dave Chua

Jane Huang

A chilling collection of supernatural horror stories from the winners of the Storytel Epigram Horror Prize.
11 fantastically written stories designed to enthral and scare!

Benjamin Chow

Leonie Koh

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Storytel Epigram Horror Prize

Fright 1

An unwanted daughter is betrothed to a reclusive man. She arrives at his beautiful home on a lonely island, to find there is no husband, only a forbidding housekeeper. A mysterious locked door; an oddly-behaved cat; perhaps she didn't come here to be a bride ...

Fright 1 - The General’s Wife

Tara is carrying a baby she can barely afford with her fiancé in London, where she escaped her over attached mother years ago. When she learns she’s having a girl and starts hallucinating, she fears her mother may have tracked her down—and that her own traumatic birth is back to haunt her.

Fright 1 - That Is Their Tragedy

A group of nurses, working the night shift, faces an unknown terror in the critical care and isolation wards of a hospital with COVID-19 patients.

Fright 1 - When We are All Alive and Well

Do moments of trauma leave traces in the universe? Reeling from the breakdown of a friendship, a young woman seeks solace in a new lover. But their first date is haunted by the ghostly imprints of his past conquests.

Fright 1 - Breakwater

A young widower copes with the travails of fatherhood, isolation, grief and a potential cockroach infestation, while seeking escape from a recurring dream that grows increasingly sinister.

Fright 1 - Dreams

A journalist investigates the stalled construction of a new MRT station, where a subterranean secret has been uncovered by workers. When she finds traces of unexplained disappearances however, what began as a strange article becomes an investigation with dangerous urgency.

Fright 1 - Untitled Train Story

A small sleepy kampung has been tormented by the chillingly sorrowful cries of a heartbroken pontianak who resides beneath an old banana tree, and when the vexed village belle bravely confronts the scorned vampiric spirit, she makes some shockingly horrific discoveries.

Fright 1 - Under The Banana Tree

Three friends board an overnight sleeper bus in Japan, unknowing of the sinister bus journey should they stay awake throughout.

Fright 1 - Forty Winks Before Dawn

A trip to the pet shop causes a woman to have recurring nightmares about hamsters and she becomes convinced that her apartment is haunted by hamsters.

Fright 1 - Hamsters

A mysterious ghost wearing a green dress haunts a housing block. A young girl, the daughter of a single mother, tries to find out the truth behind the haunting.

Fright 1 - Hantu Hijau

Newly-wed Sheena gets her new apartment at a steal, only to realize that she has gotten more than she bargained for when she finds a box of strange items hidden under some old toys.

Storytel Epigram Horror Prize - The book series

Storytel Epigram Horror Prize - The book series

Storytel Epigram Horror Prize books in order

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