Ghosts in the Dark Silence
Something is listening. In the quiet hours, when the world goes still and your guard drops, that's precisely when it moves. Not because you've done anything wrong. Simply because you're breathing. Anita Krishan, whose previous collection Ghosts of the Silent Hills found a wide and devoted readership, returns with five horror stories rooted in real events, and this time the fear feels closer, more personal. More inevitable. Each story has its own texture. Some hit hard and grotesque, the kind that lodge in your memory like a splinter. Others are subtler, almost gentle in how they draw you in, right up until they aren't. A young couple's dream home begins revealing its true nature in the worst possible way. Predatory spirits circle the living with quiet, horrible patience. Curious youngsters stumble into the dangerous world of tantriks and occult practice, discovering too late that some doors aren't meant to be opened. Even an innocent game becomes something sinister. What Krishan does well is ground the supernatural in the ordinary. These aren't distant, fantastical horrors; they arrive through familiar doors, in familiar places. The five people at the centre of these tales can pray, flee, or resist. Whether any of that is enough against forces that exist entirely outside the natural order is, of course, the question the book keeps asking. It's unsettling in the best possible way.
- Author: Anita Krishan
- Publisher: Fingerprint Publishing!
- Genre: Horror
- ISBN: 978-9354406249
- Pages: 256 pages