The Phantom Lover and Other Thrilling Tales of Thailand

✍ Scribed by Algie, Jim

• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781462913794

✦ Synopsis

Dark magic and dark pasts haunt the characters in these short stories set in mysterious, exotic Thailand. Ghosts and spirits and the real-life terror of despair besiege the pages of The Phantom Lover and Other Thrilling Tales of Thailand, horror stories by award-winning writer and longtime Thailand resident Jim Algie. In these tales you'll meet:

• A photojournalist who is literally haunted by the images of everyone he ever failed or exploited while getting a story.
• A drug trafficker-turned-writer who confronts vulnerability in his hard-as-nails partner in crime.
• An executioner who explores the nature of violence in a painful search for loving kindness.

For these characters, the naturally lush, deeply spiritual, and excitingly urban Thailand that is there home is also a place full of demons, a place where desperation is another word for normal. Each story follows their attempts to push through and make sense of the many different shades of...