The Shaman's Circle

In mid-19th century Tana Toraja, Indonesia, Minah, an orphaned shaman, makes a dangerous pact with a jinn, Siblis, promising to sacrifice someone she loves. As an orphan with no family, love is a mystery to her. When Minah meets and marries Pong Marno, she believes she's finally escaped her fate, but their happiness is short-lived. On their wedding night, Pong Marno is murdered by a rival shaman, ensuring Minah fulfills her dark bargain. Years later, in 1985, Julia, a Malaysian woman desperate to have a child, seeks Minah’ s help. Minah performs a ritual that grants Julia the gift of motherhood, but what begins as a miracle quickly takes a sinister turn, drawing Julia into a world of ancient rivalries and dark magic in The Shaman’ s Circle.

S.W. Jaafar is a versatile Malaysian film and TV producer-turned-author. She gained recognition in the horror genre with her cult-status breakthrough film, Aku Haus Darah Mu (I Thirst for Your Blood). Jaafar continued her work in horror by producing television dramas and creating a macabre travel show. Inspired by her husband’ s encounter with a shaman, she authored The Shaman’ s Circle. Before she began writing books and producing for television and cinema, Jaafar worked as a radio announcer for the now-defunct Red FM, producer for ntv7, and as a freelance newsreader for Radio Television Malaysia.