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  • Published: 26 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9789814914215
  • Imprint: PRH SEA
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $12.99

The Midnight Children: A Vanishing



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 doll that runs, talks and steals and Shaz, the shaman, who gives her a box with a finger bone inside. Zak is chased by a strange man on all fours in the shopping mall, flees from snakes that interrupt his homework and is visited by a ghostly old lady in his bedroom who happens to love matcha ice cream.

Trying to find their father, they are transported to an eerie world called the Moonlight Lands where oily creatures want to kidnap and eat them. The novel concludes with Zak vanishing one night during dinner.

  • Published: 26 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9789814914215
  • Imprint: PRH SEA
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $12.99

About the author

Tunku Halim

Tunku Halim is a Malaysian novelist, short story, non-fiction writer and lawyer. His novel Vermillion Eye was a study text at the National University of Singapore. By delving into Malay myth, legends and folklore, his writing is regarded as ‘World Gothic’. His novel, Last Breath, is seen as taking a step away from the genre into ‘a mixture of character drama, satire, alternate history, and magic realism’.

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