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My Lovely Skull & Other Skeletons

Tunku Halim
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Each the darkest of tales. Skeletons in the cupboards of the mind. Shackled in a dungeon. Rattling the cages. Bones jangling as they grinningly emerge.
Meet a hungry old woman who roasts her victims.
A grieving father intent on rape and murder. A sex-slave nurse who uses lizards to kill. A blood-sucking creature avenging a battered wife. A teenager in love with a beach-discovered skull. A diva-wannabe who will poison to sing. An exorcism going terribly wrong.
These and other skeletons await. Nightmarish, spine-chilling tales ready to embrace and draw you
into their blood-dripping dungeons.
Are you ready for the shackles?
Do you have a lovely skull?

Published: Oct/2022

ISBN: 9789815058161

Length: 228 Pages

My Lovely Skull & Other Skeletons

Tunku Halim

Each the darkest of tales. Skeletons in the cupboards of the mind. Shackled in a dungeon. Rattling the cages. Bones jangling as they grinningly emerge.
Meet a hungry old woman who roasts her victims.
A grieving father intent on rape and murder. A sex-slave nurse who uses lizards to kill. A blood-sucking creature avenging a battered wife. A teenager in love with a beach-discovered skull. A diva-wannabe who will poison to sing. An exorcism going terribly wrong.
These and other skeletons await. Nightmarish, spine-chilling tales ready to embrace and draw you
into their blood-dripping dungeons.
Are you ready for the shackles?
Do you have a lovely skull?

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Tunku Halim

Tunku Halim was born in Malaysia in 1964. He is dubbed Asia's Stephen King. By delving into Malay myth, legends and folklore, his writing is regarded as 'World Gothic'.
His novel, Dark Demon Rising, was nominated for the 1999 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award whilst his second novel, Vermillion Eye, is used as a study text in The National University of Singapore's Language and Literature course. His short story has also won first prize in a 1998 Fellowship of Australian Writers competition. In Malaysia, he has had three consecutive wins in the Star-Popular Readers' Choice Awards between 2015 and 2017.

His children's fiction include The Midnight Children trilogy (2021), comprising A Vanishing, Cemetery House and The Midnight World, whilst his children's non-fiction include A Children's History of Malaysia (2019) and History of Malaysia: A Children's Encyclopedia (2013).

His other books comprise the short-story collections The Rape of Martha Teoh & Other Chilling Stories (1997), BloodHaze: 15 Chilling Tales (1999) and The Woman Who Grew Horns and Other Works (2001); and the novels Juriah's Song (2008), Last Breath (2014) and A Malaysian Restaurant in London (2015). His non-fiction books, amongst others, include a biography of his late father A Prince Called 'Charlie' (2018).