The first volume of a brand new horror anthology series from Singapore

Ghost stories and tales of fright have a long verbal and written tradition in Singapore, and so Epigram Books is proud to present a new annual anthology series of terrifying local fiction. Featuring all the winners of the 2022 Storytel Epigram Horror Prize, Fright 1 celebrates all subsets of the horror genre, told with a Singaporean twist.

Contents

The General’s Wife | Meihan Boey
That Is Their Tragedy | Wen-yi Lee
When We Are All Alive and Well | O Thiam Chin
Breakwater | Kelly Leow (1st prize)
Dreams | Quek Shin Yi
Untitled Train Story | Teo Kai Xiang
Under the Banana Tree | Dew M. Chaiyanara (3rd prize)
Forty Winks Before Dawn | Kimberly Lium
Hamsters | Tan Lixin
Hantu Hijau | Dave Chua (2nd prize)
Ah Boy | Jane Huang