Horror
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
POETRY / The ghost of Arun Das
Raise no alarm, if on a night dimly lit,
FICTION / VAMP
Anyone could see that they were a couple very much in love. Always laughing at each other’s jokes. Finishing each other’s sentences. Name the cliché and you’ll find them living up to it without question.
BOI MELA 2024 / Trends in horror and graphic novels at this year’s Boi Mela
According to the publishers, the classic horror books are among their best selling novels this year.
FICTION / Screams and Schadenfreude
TRIGGER WARNING: Suicide, death, and gore.
FICTION / White-eyed Corpse
The beast bellowed below Mushfiq’s bedroom window, propelling rushes of tingles within him. He smiled.
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?
The Screaming Shorts / Hunt
Talespeople presents The Screaming Shorts, partnered with Daily Star Books and Star Literature.
Lift
I think it was closer tonight. I really did not want it inside the lift.
The hour of the wolf
For a wistful moment, he was born to me. Eyes closed and never to open.
Shimul
The girl stared back at her and asked a question that made Mrittika’s heart beat faster. “Don’t you recognise me?”
All she ever wanted
Elen would tell you how her hatred for her sister was so intense that she didn't know who she was without it.
Why recent horror movies aren’t as appealing
Horror is a genre heavily reliant on imagination and there are countless variations of it.
5 mystery thriller books to look out for at Boi Mela
Police officer Mirza Sharaf is hardly convinced of the evidence found and the discovery of the victim's journal leads to a series of unnerving revelations
La Marionette
She wakes up suddenly from her unnatural beeline posture, slowly and ever so gently, like a chained demon would after just hours of calculated slumber. I never look.
Catch spooky horror tales this winter!
Catch more ghost stories like this from the winners of 'Winter Night Ghost Stories' competition all throughout winter, every weekend, here.
Top 6 Bengali supernatural beings you should know about this Halloween
We are all quite familiar with the concept of vampires, zombies, and ghosts, as we see them in all our favourite Hollywood movies, and during Halloween, these monsters are usually what we resort to imitate. And that’s quite sad really, considering how rich our own supernatural folklore is. And so, for this Halloween, here are 6 Bengali supernatural beings your parents warned you about when growing up.
MONSTERMANIA
Ghost stories for a local Halloween experience.