horror fiction

FICTION / The veil of shadow

He had consistently disregarded the villagers' accounts of bhoot-prets as local folklore. To him, they were just stories to scare the gullible

FICTION / Trapped in the bite

I woke up with the taste of blood in my mouth

FICTION / Konokbari

Reya looks out the window of the bus, the glint of sunlight falling across her oval face makes her olive skin shimmer.

ESSAY / On the many flavours of horror in children’s literature

What do we make of the mysterious thread that connects these stories not by genre, but by an imagination so wondrous they leave room for an underlying horror, and the many things that can mean?

October 28, 2024
October 28, 2024

The veil of shadow

He had consistently disregarded the villagers' accounts of bhoot-prets as local folklore. To him, they were just stories to scare the gullible

October 27, 2024
October 27, 2024

Trapped in the bite

I woke up with the taste of blood in my mouth

April 6, 2024
April 6, 2024

Konokbari

Reya looks out the window of the bus, the glint of sunlight falling across her oval face makes her olive skin shimmer.

December 5, 2023
December 5, 2023

On the many flavours of horror in children’s literature

What do we make of the mysterious thread that connects these stories not by genre, but by an imagination so wondrous they leave room for an underlying horror, and the many things that can mean?