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Who hasn’t been terrified by The Ring or Sadako? Or those films featuring scary Japanese dolls?
The Asian continent also has plenty of horror movies and TV series based on its culturally diverse
Unfortunately, there’s just far and few between when it comes to books
But before we get to them, just a note: I was only able to include books in
Find below are eight urban-legend horror books by Asian authors
Get ready to be frightened by a different kind of horror this scare season!
This is a collection of 10 horror short stories based on urban legends in Indian universities
In here, there’s a story about someone who died but their body is unable to be
A different tale features a haunted school in which the students want to call bluff
This terrifying mix of urban legend stories is sure to please horror seekers
Trese is a suburban horror fantasy graphic novel series about a heroine named Alexandra Trese as she
This compilation is replete with urban legend creatures such nuno sa punso (dwarf), tikbalang (half-human, half-horse), and
You might be familiar with this one already, too, as a Netflix TV series adaptation of Trese
Though it’s not really a horror book, it features horror stories and one based on an
“Have You Heard the One About Anamaria Marquez?” follows a girl with the same name who was
No one knows what happened to Anamaria until the gardener died and a storm felled a tree
The book follows Okiku, also thrown down the well, as she kills criminals such as murderers and
Everything changes when Okiku meets a boy who has attracted a powerful spirit
This book is a collection of short stories based on existing urban legends and is centered around
Rather, they were originally popular urban legends that he collected and edited
This is a collection of short stories from a Singaporean writer
And though most of the stories are not really based on urban legends, there are two in
Pontianak is a known urban legend ghost in three Southeast Asian countries: Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia
Meanwhile, pocong is another urban legend ghost that is common in Indonesia
As a child, these urban legend creatures never failed to keep me up at night; there are
Part horror and part thriller, this book is based on a Japanese urban legend
The story goes like this: A woman was too young to raise her baby, so she hid
When she saw a small boy crying in front of the locker, she realized that he was
However, they grow up to be orphans, harboring resentment against the women who abandoned them
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