More Spooky Stories! The taxi races through the wilderness in the darkness ...
Uday Sengupta is returning to his uncle's sprawling house in Bastar after a long time.
As Uday picks his way through the dense foliage to reach the bungalow, a power outage plunges the place into darkness. Uday is greeted by the old retainer and makes his way to the dining hall where his uncle and his old friends are celebrating a reunion.
The twelve friends are in a boisterous mood. They decide to recount their supernatural experiences to entertain the gathering. One by one, they start narrating their experiences as Uday joins them ...
More sinister, more creepy, more spine-chilling, more eerie, 'More Spooky Stories' is even more spooky than the first, the bestselling 'Spooky Stories'!
A BRIEF BIO Born at New Delhi, she worked in the corporate sector for eight long years before Tanushree quit the rat race to wield her pen and found her calling. A well know travel writer and novelist, she is also known for the hundreds of ‘Middles’ that entertained readers of almost all English dailies in the country for over a decade. Tanushree is passionate about travelling and writing. If the lady is not packing her bags to zip around the world, she is sure to be found tapping the keys of her computer. Among her bestselling books in non- fiction genre are Death of a Dictator - The Story of Saddam Hussein, Secrets of Happiness, The Ultimate Food for Body, Mind and Soul, The Power of Relaxation. The book Smart Memory has also been translated into Tamil and Spanish.
She has published 15 novels till date. Nurjahan’s Daughter, Boots Belts Berets, Escape from Harem, On the Double, Solo in Singapore, I fell in love with a soldier, Cakewalk Murder, No Margin for Error, A Closetful of Skeletons, The Breath of Death, Decoding the Feronia Files, The Teenage Diary of Rani Laxmibai, The Girls in Green, Spooky Stories, An Invitation to Die, are a few novels written by her.
Boots Belts Berets and On the Double - are soon to be adapted into web series.
More Spooky Stories is a wonderful collection of 12 horror stories that explore various aspects of the genre. The stories are wonderfully written and each one of them manages to give you the chills. The idea to weave the dozen stories the way the authors do is quite interesting and the climax, while easy to guess, is wonderfully penned. The authors have explored some interesting local stories and woven a plot around it, which adds a dash of truth to the stories, once you decide to google a couple. The storytelling is quite interesting, and while there is an element of eeriness in the stories, there is no part where the horror seems over the top. Right from the tea garden to the haunter carrier ship, the locations the authors have some that are normal and spooky at the same time. If I had to pick favorites, the ones that stood out for me were The Creepy Doll, The Airport, The Birthday Girl and The Scholarly Spectre. A couple of things that could have been improved would be the primary story because apart from being a common thread, it didn’t provide the sort of chill the others had. Another interesting aspect of the story would have been if the storytellers would have identified themselves a bit more.
More Spooky Stories gives you chills and thrills throughout your reading session with herself. The starting of the book and the way of storytelling from the author is new for me when Uday Sengupta goes to visit his uncle in India. When he reached their, he found himself to be surrounded by his uncle and friends and everyone is ready to narrate their ghost story. The Stories vary in their theme and the chilling experience, some have the capability to make an adult man frightened with just a page while some finds themselves difficult to even scare a little kid with its subject, but the second option consists the majority of the book. I loved the chilling feelings of the book but the stories are focused on the children section of society and I as a teenager found many unnecessary paragraphs and more than half stories just turn them into a horror one in the end with just two or three paragraphs.