Storytel Epigram Horror Prize Series

A mysterious ghost wearing a green dress haunts a housing block. A young girl, the daughter of a single mother, tries to find out the truth behind the haunting.

A trip to the pet shop causes a woman to have recurring nightmares about hamsters and she becomes convinced that her apartment is haunted by hamsters.

Do moments of trauma leave traces in the universe? Reeling from the breakdown of a friendship, a young woman seeks solace in a new lover. But their first date is haunted by the ghostly imprints of his past conquests.

Tara is carrying a baby she can barely afford with her fiancé in London, where she escaped her over attached mother years ago. When she learns she's having a girl and starts hallucinating, she fears her mother may have tracked her down—and that her own traumatic birth is back to haunt her.

An unwanted daughter is betrothed to a reclusive man. She arrives at his beautiful home on a lonely island, to find there is no husband, only a forbidding housekeeper. A mysterious locked door; an oddly-behaved cat; perhaps she didn't come here to be a bride ...

A small sleepy kampung has been tormented by the chillingly sorrowful cries of a heartbroken pontianak who resides beneath an old banana tree, and when the vexed village belle bravely confronts the scorned vampiric spirit, she makes some shockingly horrific discoveries.

A group of nurses, working the night shift, faces an unknown terror in the critical care and isolation wards of a hospital with COVID-19 patients. Chills and thrills from the Storytel Epigram Horror Competition.

A journalist investigates the stalled construction of a new MRT station, where a subterranean secret has been uncovered by workers. When she finds traces of unexplained disappearances however, what began as a strange article becomes an investigation with dangerous urgency.

Newly-wed Sheena gets her new apartment at a steal, only to realize that she has gotten more than she bargained for when she finds a box of strange items hidden under some old toys.

A young widower copes with the travails of fatherhood, isolation, grief and a potential cockroach infestation, while seeking escape from a recurring dream that grows increasingly sinister.

Three friends board an overnight sleeper bus in Japan, little knowing the sinister bus journey they will ensure should they stay awake throughout. Chills and thrills in this short story from the Storytel Epigram Horror Competition.