History Literature / ClassicSingaporeHorrorStories

** ''Parasite'': [[spoiler: Amanda's fate from a ritual gone wrong have her [[FreakyFridaFlip swapping bodies]] with the titular parasite - a ''penanggalan'', a type of Malaysian vampire whose body consist of a floating head with exposed intestines]].

* AndIMustScream:

* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: In ''Soldier of Fortune'', our main character discovers the mountains if Taiwan are populated by werefoxes, werevixens, wereboars, and the Great Monkey King which is pretty much a very powerful weremonkey.

** In ''Hangman'', the titular hangman who regularly bullies his assistant warden and wants to kill a cat ForTheEvulz gets [[spoiler: hanged himself when the cat caused him to have an accident, while the oft-abused assistant delightfully watches]].

** The protagonist of ''Hangman'' is a corrupt judge, named Judge Solomon Pao. Which is ironic since he is named after King Solomon of Israel and Judge Pao-Zhen of China, two of history's fairest judges.

* GratitiousForeignLanguage: Well, not actually foreign on a technical term, since Singapore is a melting pot of various cultures and races, but the default language of the books are English, and every now and then there are Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, Malay, Tamil, Japanese, German and various other languages beimg used. Whenever these happens the non-English text will be ''Italicized'' for differentiation purposes.

* EldritchAbomination: The titular deity of ''Prahma The Horned God'', described as a crustacean being with webbed, frog-like feet, a pot belly, giant crab claws, tentacles all over its lips... so yes, basically a Muslim version of [[Literature/CallOfCthulu Cthulu]].

** The protagonist of one story is a corrupt judge, named Judge Solomon Pao. Which is ironic since he is named after King Solomon of Israel and Judge Pao-Zhen of China, two of history's fairest judges.

** Diamond Dave from ''Pig Farm'' wooed, and married an old widow to con her of her pig farm, and subsequently her inheritance.

* IronicName: The protagonist of one story is a corrupt judge, named Judge Solomon Pao. Which is ironic since he is named after King Solomon of Israel and Judge Pao-Zhen of China, two of history's fairest judges.

* ApocalypticLog: ''Message In A Bottle'' depicts the last recovered message from a Japanese submarine which mysteriously disappeared during World War II. [[spoiler: Turns out the entire crew had an unfortunate run-in with a mysterious Sea Hag]].

* InfantImmortality: Averted, sometimes children who did nothing wrong would end up getting the short end of the stick. Expect multiple KillTheCutie moments.

* OutnumberedSibling: Katherine from ''Stepchild'' is the only girl among her siblings, have to contend with two older brothers and the titular stepchild.

* TheDogBitesBack: In ''Suffer The Children'', the long-abused older brother [[spoiler: turns the tables on his tormentor by spiking her stew with laxatives, and then proceed to slice off her tongue and began abusing her back with nails, wires, and various sharp instruments]].
* DirtyCop: John Law in ''Once Upon A Swine''.

* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: The main point of ''The White Tiger of Kalimantaro''. This is what would happen when two retired ex-policemen with have too much time on their hands decides to venture into the deep, dark Indonesian jungles to hunt a divine white tiger.

* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: The main point of ''The White Tiger of Kalimantaro''. THis iswhat happens when two retired ex-policemen who have too much time on their hands decides to venture into the deep, dark Indonesian jungles to hunt a divine white tiger.

The first book is published in 1992, and each installment is released between regular intervals, with the fourth and last being published in 2003. Damien Sin cites lack of ideas and personal issues as reasons for the delays of a possible fifth book, but still reveals that he does have interest to continue writing the long-gestating fifth installment. Unfortunately, AuthorExistanceFailure pretty much ensures the series would stop at its fourth.

** Diamond Dave wooed, and married an old widow to con her of her pig farm, and subsequently her inheritance.

* OutnumberedSibling: Katherine from ''Stepchild'' is the only girl among her siblings, have to contend with two older brothers and the titular stepchild.
* SeriousBusiness: In ''Checkmate'', Professor Narul considers chess as more than "just a game", but a matter of life and death. To the extent of abandoning his wife and children, cutting off all social ties, and even resorting to [[spoiler: murdering a rival better at chess than him]].
* ThreeWishes: Prahma will grant three wishes to whomever restore its position into the world. Too bad he is a JerkassGod which screws over pretty much everybody who worshiped him.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: ''Down On The Farm''.

* WouldHurtACHild: ''Suffer The Children'' revolves around a 30-odd single woman who's unfairly scorned by her more successful sister, and decides to commit a RevengeByProxy, by abusing her sister's children. [[spoiler: She gets a rather revolting and disturbing but still somewhat satisfying comeuppance]].

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* BreadEggsAndBreadedEggs: Katherine from ''Stepchild'' have a tendency to talk like this. Justified though, because she's a teenager.

[[https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/entertainment/upcoming-eric-khoo-film-dedicated-to-late-horror-writer-damien-sin There was an attempt to adapt one of the stories, ''One Last Cold Kiss'', into a movie,]] but as of 342014, the project is currently stalled in DevelopmentHell.

* AssholeVictims: Most of the worst characters in the entire anthology gets pretty much what they deserved.

* CloningBlues: The main theme of the futre-set story, ''Down On The Farm''.

* ApocalypticLog: '''Message In A Bottle''' depicts the last recovered message from a Japanese submarine which mysteriously disappeared during World War II. [[spoiler: Turns out the entire crew had an unfortunate run-in with a mysterious Sea Hag]].

* SinkTheLifeboats: In '''Message In A Bottle''', after the Japanese submarine ''Kagemusha'' sinks an American ship, the Japanese Admiral which is the VillainProtagonist deliberately shoots the lifeboats.

-- > "Damien Sin is helping to invent a new genre of popular fiction: '''Singapore Noir'''... Classic Singapore Horror Stories is a monster hit." - '''THE ASIAN WALL STREET JOURNAL'''

''Classic Singapore Horror Stories'' is a 4-issue anthology of Urban horror from the late Damien Sin (1965–2011), an ex-poet, musician and writer. His most popular work so far, and the defining example of early-90s Singaporean literature, the entire anthology