A Vanishing

Dare you spin the bone? Can you hear it rattling in its metal box? Spooky things keep happening to Zak and Min after their father mysteriously disappears one day at breakfast. Min encounters spider-like creatures and a doll that sprints and steals. Zak is chased in a mall by a strange man who runs on all fours and vicious snakes trap him in his bedroom. And who is that old smelly man who gives them the box with the finger bone inside? Be warned ... for much scarier oil-dripping things await them in this spine-tingling book. Don’t you dare scream!

Tunku Halim is dubbed as Asia’s Stephen King and by delving into Malay myth, legends and folklore, his writing is often regarded as ‘World Gothic’. His novel, Dark Demon Rising (1997), was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award whilst his second novel, Vermillion Eye (2000), is used as a study text in The National University of Singapore’s Language and Literature course. He has also won first prize in a Fellowship of Australian Writers’ short story competition and has had three consecutive wins in Malaysia’s Popular-Star Readers’ Choice Awards between 2015 and 2017.