The loving and the dead : tales of the supernatural
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
The loving and the dead : tales of the supernatural
AUTHOR:
Lim, Catherine.
ISBN:
9789814841931
PUBLICATION_INFO:
Singapore : Marshall Cavendish, c2019.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
142 p. ; 20 cm
CONTENTS:
Machine generated contents note: Marriage -- The Old Man At The Top Of The Stairs -- Ah Chow's Bed -- "Where Have I Seen That Face Before?" -- Kong Kong's Teeth -- Voices -- The Letters -- No 32, Greenglenn Crescent -- Amat's Story -- Proof -- Purgatory -- The Village Idiot -- The Favourite Son -- The Journalist -- Doppelganger -- The Footprints Of Love -- The Return -- Non-Believer.
ABSTRACT:
"Catherine Lim' s free-wheeling imagination cheerfully dispenses with all constraints to tell stories of that other world. Written with an exaggerated sense of earnestness and caution, the eighteen tales in this collection elicit in the reader the very goosebumps of terror she had herself experienced as a child listening to such tales. As an adult, these goosebumps persist for her. However, they no longer arise from fear, but from a sense of awe and mystery that she feels when she considers this large existential question: Despite our extensive scientific knowledge today, what do we know of the supernatural? What can we know of the supernatural? Catherine’s deep and abiding sense of mystery is reflected in the pronouncement by one of her characters in the last story in this collection: “I don't know, I don't know. I wish I did”"-- Provided by publisher.
SUBJECT:
| Ghost stories, Singaporean. |
| Paranormal fiction. |
| Singaporean fiction (English) |
| Short stories, Singaporean. |
BIBSUMMARY:
"Catherine Lim' s free-wheeling imagination cheerfully dispenses with all constraints to tell stories of that other world. Written with an exaggerated sense of earnestness and caution, the eighteen tales in this collection elicit in the reader the very goosebumps of terror she had herself experienced as a child listening to such tales. As an adult, these goosebumps persist for her. However, they no longer arise from fear, but from a sense of awe and mystery that she feels when she considers this large existential question: Despite our extensive scientific knowledge today, what do we know of the supernatural? What can we know of the supernatural? Catherine’s deep and abiding sense of mystery is reflected in the pronouncement by one of her characters in the last story in this collection: “I don't know, I don't know. I wish I did”"--