THE BIG BOOK OF MALAYSIAN HORROR STORIES takes us from terrors that are mythological and historical to contemporary and technological. The biggest Fixi Novo anthology yet is set in various states in Malaysia, but the most common states are Darul Distress and Negeri Scary. These brand-new stories are complemented by Chin Yew's equally spooky illustrations. Featuring the following writers: ATIKAH Wahid BISSME S. Adrian CHASE Joni CH'NG Eileyn CHUA CHUA Kok Yee HADI M. Nor ISMIM Putera IZADDIN Syah Yusof Nat KANG Venoo KUPPUSAMY LAI May Senn Joshua LIM (twice!) Ethan MATISA MUTHUSAMY Ramiah NADIAH Zakaria NURUL HAFIZAH Mat Kamil PAUL GNANASELVAM RAJA UMMI NADRAH Reuel RAWAT RIZAL Ramli SAAT Omar Nathaniel SARIO TINA Ishak Terence TOH Malachi Edwin VETHAMANI WONG Jo-yen YANNA Hashri Collin YEOH

A burong descends from Tansang Kenyalang in the midst of a dire catastrophe. A shapeshifter frees Kedah from the dreaded Raja Bersiong only to uncover a darker secret. A woman learns to channel her family’s food magic. A young huntress of supernatural creatures charts her own path of love. This anthology of short stories offers fresh takes on Malaysian folklore and fairy tales, adds enchantment to the ordinary, and bursts with new, wonderful flavours. Stir a little spoonful of magic into your tea, whether you’re from these shores or from far away. Stories by: Collin Yeoh · Hamizah Adzmi · Ilnaz A. Faizal · Ismim Putera · Joni Chng · Joshua Lim · Julia Alba · Rowan C · Sharmilla Ganesan · Stuart Danker · Syazwani Jefferdin · Zufar Zeid

Melur’s world has always been limited to the gates of Widuri, an 18th century manor in Kedah that houses seven orphaned girls. Each named after a flower, the girls are promised freedom on the night they turn 16 in the form of foster parents. A garden full of the same seven flowers they are named after sits solemnly behind the manor, but their headmistress, Madam Dahlia, forbids them from entering. On the night before her eldest sister’s 16th birthday, Melur decides to break the rules and steal a flower from the forbidden garden as a present. Her single action tips her world as she knows it like dominoes, bringing the darkest secrets of Widuri to light one by one. What happens when the flowers are not what they appear to be? What if there were more like them, and no foster parents are coming to the rescue?

Every family has a ghost story.This gorgeous and lyrical debut by A.M. Muffaz shares a family's story about their ghosts in an abandoned house in a Malaysian village. Grandmother Jah is determined to return to her estranged husband's house years after a brutal murder. Her children and her granddaughter work together to clear out the remnants of the former residents. But, they're still there, lingering in the dead garden and musty, old rooms. Grandmother Jah will not surrender her home to the man that did so much harm in life. Her son, his boyfriend, her daughter, and granddaughter, all must join her in the effort to cleanse the old family home.

Beloved Malaysian actress Annabelle Shek is found dead, her body was decapitated and dismembered. Annabelle is the first of many such victims. Every three months, another woman is found murdered in the same way, and it becomes apparent that these killings are part of a sacrificial ritual. Enter Suzanna Sim – a hard-boiled, tattooed punk rocker forced to grow up on the streets of George Town, Penang when she was orphaned at a young age. She’s the owner of a private investigation firm that specializes in black magic and occult crimes. She solves these cases with the help of her supernatural partner: a toyol named Tokek, who works with Suzanna under the promise that she’ll help him find his long-lost birth mother. When a billionaire hotel magnate hires Suzanna to find Annabelle Shek’s killer, she discovers that the rituals are being conducted by a former disco singer turned bomoh who was supposedly hanged for her crimes in the late 70’s – but is somehow still alive today. (Buku Fixi) (Fixi Novo)

Amidst the Chinese-Malay conflict in Kuala Lumpur in 1969, sixteen-year-old Melati must overcome prejudice, violence, and her own OCD to find her way back to her mother.

Now a Netflix Mandarin original drama! From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Tiger, a Reese’s Book Club pick Yangsze Choo’s stunning debut, The Ghost Bride, is a startlingly original novel infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, and unexpected supernatural twists. Li Lan, the daughter of a respectable Chinese family in colonial Malaysia, hopes for a favorable marriage, but her father has lost his fortune, and she has few suitors. Instead, the wealthy Lim family urges her to become a “ghost bride” for their son, who has recently died under mysterious circumstances. Rarely practiced, a traditional ghost marriage is used to placate a restless spirit. Such a union would guarantee Li Lan a home for the rest of her days, but at what price? Night after night, Li Lan is drawn into the shadowy parallel world of the Chinese afterlife, where she must uncover the Lim family’s darkest secrets—and the truth about her own family. Reminiscent of Lisa See’s Peony in Love and Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter, The Ghost Bride is a wondrous coming-of-age story and from a remarkable new voice in fiction.