History Literature / ClassicSingaporeHorrorStories

* AllJustADream: Inverted in the last few moments ''Message In A Bottle''. [[spoiler: our VillainProtagonist thinks his encounter with the Sea Hag is just a dream and he's safely back home in Tokyo, ''then'' he wakes up]]...

* AllJustADream: Inverted in the last few moments ''Message In A Bottle''.

* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: The titular hangman from ''the Hangman'', who wants to capture, starve, and flay a cat just [[DisproportionateRetribution because it scratched him]]. In self-defense because '''he''' is the one who attempt to attack the cat first.

** It gets even worse in tbe ending, [[spoiler: when Prahma manage to physically manifest itself into ''our'' world. The sheer sight of Prahma in the flesh is enough to make anybody GoMadFromTheRevelation]].

* FlayingAlive: The fate of Emma in ''Skin Deep''. Oh god, poor Emma...

* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: In ''Soldier of Fortune'', our main character discovers the mountains of Taiwan are populated by werefoxes, werevixens, wereboars, and the Great Monkey King which is pretty much a very powerful weremonkey.
* PantheraAwesome: Subverted then played straight in ''The White Tiger of Kalimantaro''. Two retired ex-cops travels to the Indonesian jungles to hunt a divine white tiger, only to realize the tiger to be old, mangly, lice-ridden and ready to die of age and diesease. They kill it anyway. [[spoiler: Then the ''real'' white tiger shows up, and it tirns out to be a god-like entity the size of an elephant, and have supernatural necromatic powers, given how it resurrects the old, slain tiger into a tiger zombie]]...

* SpookyPainting: Featured throughout ''The Artist Arcane Tao''.

* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: Featured constantly, especially if the story involves occultic studies. One notable case in ''The Artist Arcane Tao'', where the titular artist's interest in demonology to create the most macabre paintings ever ends up [[spoiler: unleashing demons into the mortal world]].

* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: Featured constantly, especially if the story involves occultic studies. One notable case in ''The Artist Arcane Tao'', where the titular artist's interest in demonology to create the most macabre paintings ever ends up [[spoilers: unleashing demons into the mortal world]].

* GreenEyedMonster: Veronica from ''Little Devil'', who will do '''anything''' to win over the heart of her colleague. [[spoiler: Whom is already married and have a son]]. She evemtually crosses the MoralEventHorizon by using Black Magic, and it didn't end well...

* ArtImitatesLife: ''The Artist Arcane Tao'' features the titular artist's [[spoilers: painting of demons coming to life in the end]].

* VorpalPillow: In ''Paint It Black'', implied to be how [[spoiler: Jessica dispose of the frail, disabled Gopal]].

* 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.
* TimeStandsStill: In ''Black Romance'', this happens when the main character prays to Kali, the goddess of destruction, while being assaulted by several cops in a police station. Naturally he took this opportunity to gleefully [[GroinAttack whack each and every one of them in the nuts]].

* PantheraAwesome: Subverted then played straight in ''The White Tiger of Kalimantaro''. Two retired ex-cops travels to the Indonesian jungles to hunt a divine white tiger, only to realize the tiger to be old, mangly, lice-ridden and ready to die of age and diesease. They kill it anyway. [[spoiler: Then the ''real'' white tiger shows up, and it tirns out to be a god-like entity the size of an elephant... and have supernatural necromatic powers, given how it resurrects the old, slain tiger into a tiger zombie]]...

* GauasVengeance: Featured in ''The White Tiger of Kalimantaro''. The two ex-cops who decides to go on an impromptu safari just to kill an endangered white tiger ends up regretting their decision for the rest of their lives. [[spoiler: Well, the one who didn't die, but [[GoMadFromTheRevelation becomes insane after witnessing the supernatural white tiger's divine powers]] and [[GroinAttack lose his penis]] to [[ItMakesSenseInContext baboons worshipping the tiger]],]] at least]]...

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The entire point of ''Prahma The Horned God''. The main character's wife wished for wealth from Prahma; [[spoiler: Prahma responds by killing her som so that the couple can become immensely wealthy from the insuramce money]]. They wished for their son's return; [[spoiler: this only aows Prahma to take over their son's spirit and regenerate itself into the mortal world]]. However, they still have one last wish, and with that [[spoiler: they wished for Prahma to be [[HoistByHisOwnPetard banished back into the netherworld where it came from]], finally putting an end to the evil god's reign of terror]].

Take ''Literature/ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark'', set it exclusively in Singapore, put it through a set of [[RealityEnsues realism filter]], with a dose of twisted humor, a blend of macabre imagination, some [[BloodierAndGorier excessive blood and gore]], some [[DarkerAndEdgier adult themes]], and... voila! Welcome to the macabre mind of Damien Sin, into the deep, dark Singaporean underworld.

* PleaseDontLeaveMe: In ''Skin Deep'', [[spoiler: Dr. Quek begs his daughter Emma not to leave him to pursue a modelling career in the States, only her her to scoff at him. Resulting in his RageBreakingPoint snapping and a shocking DownerEnding for both father and daughter]].

** The protagonist of ''Dead Man Tell Jo Tales'' 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.

''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 shows the side of Singaporean myth, culture, and traditions people never saw, conveyed through the author's trademark telling strokes and bizarre, kinky humor. Described as ''Verbal bullets at Singapore icons...'', more often than not Damien Sin's stories features no supernatural elements or black magic (despite the stories being firmly rooted in the horror genre) but instead reveals the true horror as from the dark side of humanity.

* NWordPrivileges: In ''Skin Deep'', Dr Quek's daughter Emma who is half-English from her deceased mother's side have [[spoilers: no qualms calling her father a "chink" after having sex with him]].

** ''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. Worse of all, she is InvisibleToNormals, and can only watch as the vampire completely take over her life]].

** ''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. Worse of all, she is InvisibleToMuggles, and can only watch as the vampire completely take over her life]].