Product Description
Your understanding of the occult is about to change. There are no witches here, no werewolves. These are stories of life interrupted by forces unknown: energy flowing dark and silent from unspoken fears, repressed desires and small-town secrets. Set in hauntingly beautiful hill-stations, the sleepy lanes of Lucknow and breath-taking Rishikesh, these stories explore cities and the characters they coil around: whether it is a waiter disillusioned with the world around him, a school boy followed everywhere by a pig, a lawyer who wears a tiger claw at his neck for virility, or a young woman as much in love as she is in mortal danger. Here, in these eerily quiet worlds, are stories of horror that come from the most familiar of places, where nothing is ever as it seems.
About the Author
Isha Singh is an alumnus of Miranda House, Delhi University, where she pursued English Honours. She did her schooling from Loreto Convent Lucknow. For her Ph.D in English Literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University, she worked extensively on the trauma and memory of the Holocaust. She is currently teaching at Lucknow University as an Assistant Professor and is twenty-seven years old. This is her first book. The author loves to read horror stories, from Edgar Allen Poe to Ray Bradbury and Stephen King. She agrees with Stephen King when he says that it is necessary to keep the alligators fed. Writing short stories in the genre of horror works out well for her in that regard. The author finds the music of The Beatles pretty inspiring. One of these stories was written while listening to Come Together on loop. She finds the Beatles Ashram in Rishikesh to be a very calming place. She also loves music by Florence, Steven Wilson, The Doors, Janis Joplin and Kishore Kumar. She also loves the beautiful Himalayan mountains where many of these stories are set.