
The Midnight Children: A Vanishing
$12.99
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
26 August 2021
Summary
What do you do when strange things happen around you?
The Midnight Children trilogy is a series of dark fantasy novels for children age 8-13 combining Asian mythology and Gothic elements.
The characters, ten-year-old Min and twelve-year-old Zak are the main protagonists. In The Midnight Children: A Vanishing, Zak and Min’s father mysteriously disappears at breakfast and curious things then begin to happen to them. Min encounters two small creatures with spider-like legs, a dol…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789814914215 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 9814914215 |
| Author: | Tunku Halim |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 26 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 130g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Series: | The Midnight Children |
| Audience Age: | 9-12 |

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Tunku Halim
Tunku Halim was born in 1964. He is dubbed “Asia’s Stephen King,” and his writing, which delves into Malay myth, legends, and folklore, is often regarded as “World Gothic.”
His novel, Dark Demon Rising (1997), was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His second novel, Vermillion Eye (2000), is used as a study text in The National University of Singapore’s Language and Literature course. He has also won first prize in a Fellowship of Australian Writers’ short story competition and achieved three consecutive wins in Malaysia’s Popular-Star Readers’ Choice Awards between 2015 and 2017.
His short-story collections include:
- The Rape of Martha Teoh & Other Chilling Stories (1997)
- BloodHaze: 15 Chilling Tales (1999)
- The Woman Who Grew Horns and Other Works (2001)
- 7 Days to Midnight (2013)
- The Rape of Nancy Ng - 13 Nightmares (2018)
His other novels include:
- Juriah’s Song (2008)
- Last Breath (2014)
- A Malaysian Restaurant in London (2015)
His non-fiction books include:
- A Children’s History of Malaysia (2003)
- History of Malaysia - A Children’s Encyclopedia (2009)
- A Prince Called “Charlie” (2018) (a biography of his late father)
Tunku Halim’s collection of short horror stories, Scream to the Shadows, was published by Penguin Random House SEA in 2019 and became a bestseller in Singapore and Malaysia.
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