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Macabre Tales: Anthology of Uncanny Short Stories Kindle Edition
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- Publication date18 January 2021
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- ASIN : B08TBWMN82
- Publisher : Chrysanthemum Chronicles (18 January 2021)
- Language : English
- File size : 3735 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 189 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #74,416 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the authors
New Delhi-based Member Judge in the District Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission Dr. Harshali Singh has written in several literary genres: poetry to fiction, columns to essays. She is the contributing author in several anthologies and regularly writes for e-magazines. She has written several books on women-centric issues like domestic violence, alienation, female foeticide, marital rape and women empowerment and independence.
She has been conferred with the Iconic Author Award 2022 by Aesthetics International Lifestyle magazine.
After working for more than fourteen years in the education sector as an academician, a teacher trainer, an administrator and a principal, she joined the Consumer Commission as a Member Judge. She has also taken a keen interest in helping people with special needs and follows her passion for helping children, and finds it most fulfilling and personally uplifting.
Her novels, ‘A Window to her Dreams’, ‘The Anatomy of Choice’ and the recently launched ‘A Paradox of Dreams’ form part of eight books series, called the ‘Haveli Series’ published by Readomania. She has written several short stories in Anthologies that traverse varied genres from Historical Fiction, mythology, horror, erotica and many more with reputed Traditional Publishing houses.
Her poems form part of several Poetry Anthologies like ‘She- The Shakti’ and ‘Remnants of Loss’. She has been on the organising committee of Kavya Kumbh, an International Trilingual Poetry Fest where her poems feature in the Anthology ‘Confluence’ and ‘Shakti’.
She has won the prestigious ‘Write India - Season 2’, a short story contest organised by ‘The Times of India’ Group on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s prompt. The Times Group launched the book at the Times Lit Fest in Delhi and Bangalore amid much fanfare. In 2020, Amitav Ghosh selected her short story in the Top 10 for his prompt.
She has also chaired discussions and has been part of various panels with eminent personalities in their chosen fields of World Peace, meditation, infertility, and social causes and stalwarts in writing.
As a painter, she expresses herself and her observations of her surroundings in oil paintings, which have been exhibited in solo and group shows in India Habitat Center, New Delhi, and also in Gurugram.
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Currently living in the ‘city of Joy' Kolkata, Sreeparna Sen is a Banker by profession and finds her solace in writing. A Computer Engineer by education, she is a voracious reader.
She has authored the book Tales of Wizardencil and co authored few anthologies like Hawk's Nest, Sweek Flash fiction Book Part 2 and 4 and Sharing Lipstick.
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Very well written . All stories are amazing in their own way..
I don't have the stomach to read such stuff but when a friend insisted, it became a little difficult for me to turn down her request.
The mood is set by Dr. Santosh Bakaya ma'am's story and as I went from one to the other, I realised I was quite upto it. They were dark but not unpalatable for the faint hearted like me.
The stories are intriguing and I found myself glued to them till the end. That I think speaks a lot about their quality.
Most stories are great. Some of them that I especially loved are
Harshali Singh 's, The Patient,
Last of the Pench Tigers by Antara Banerjee,
Preeti S Manaktala 's, Being Immortal (the reason that I originally picked the book for)
Ratha Katteri by Varadharajan Ramesh
Monalisa Joshi's The last train to Earth
& Sreeparna Sen 's The Elixir and the Nemesis.
I don't want to out the stories by writing much. All I can say is that though they belong to a particular genre, every story is different from the other and you find yourself engrossed in them. Unlike me, I hope the word 'macabre' doesn't scare you. Even if it does, going by my experience, I prescribe it to all.
Finally, a shout out to the editor, Nandita De nee Chatterjee, who has edited and also written one story for the anthology. Since I recently co-edited an anthology myself, I now know the process a tad better and the sheer amount of hard work and responsibility that it involves.
The anthology brings together impressive authors, some of whom I have followed for a while and I wish them well for this anthology and for their future endeavors as well.
I say-- “ Do sit at home and keep fear as close as possible to you, because before you know it by the end of this book , you may just lose it and become fearless!”
“Macabre Tales” is a thriller anthology brought together by Chrysanthemum Chronicles. It is a dystopian corpus ignited by Monalisa Joshi, the director and founder of CC, the book was edited under the fine guidance of a brilliant poet and writer/editor Nandita De nee Chatterjee. The book has 17 short stories written by prolific splendid writers.
Dr. Santosh Bakaya a seasoned and amazing writer, sets the mood for this thriller, her story ‘And the fireplace roared on’ is unimaginably mysterious that will keep you guessing till the end. It is about a new year’s party, the exuberant guest and their lively discussion on the liquor, entrepreneurial skills, love for antique, ailments, poetry and stock market et al. And amongst all this vanity talks were two guest who were uninvited. Story set in the cold winter of December with the fireplace roaring, what was the purpose of these two gatecrashers? Who were they?
‘The Patient’ by Harshali Singh throws light on the Dissociative Identity Disorder and the ordeals a senior doctor faces under politics and power play. In the fight between the wrong and the right, who wins? It’s a story about a person’s multiple personality disorder, and complicating decisions making by the medical fraternity.
‘Last of the Pench Tigers’ by Antara Banerjee is a story which will shake you up to womanhood and woman power. When the submissive wounded ones take charge to revenge and find justice in their own hands, hell breaks loose. This is a must to be read story of unrelenting spirit, terrifying acts by brave women, and the echoes of their defiance and confrontations.
‘Larceny of Identity’ by Purba Chakraborty is a story about human insecurities , revenge and denial. It is a story about deceit and lies using a doppelganger. It is an intriguing tale and depicts human shades of revenge and jealously.
‘Kurchi-The wild flower’s tale’ is an titillating tale about a couple’s lustful nights of obsessive love and yet their lack of steam in their conjugal togetherness. Lopamudra Banerjee has beautifully crafted femininity revealing the insides of a yearning women, her yearnings and search for something unknown.
‘The Last Train to Earth’ by Monalisa Joshi is a fascinating story, with an interesting name to it that makes you want to read about this last train. Who are the passengers and why is it the last train ? The story about a women who desperately wants to get onto this train but why? This riveting story of longing and separation will leave you spellbound.
‘The Elixir and the Nemesis’ by Sreeparna Sen is a suspense thriller in the real sense. The plot develops quickly and swiftly, shifting focus and makes you race your mind a la Sherlock Holmes to find the real culprit and the victim. The story is engrossing and will keep you hooked till the end.
‘The Connoisseur’ by Alipi Das is an interesting tale about a blast from the past and how the past tries to revel the doings, jolting an unrelated family of their peace and sanity. The narrative is strong and keeps you glues till the end.
How buckled up emotions can turn into grief and loneliness, hate and regret is what ‘Delusion’ is all about. With a fine and crisp narration by Muskan Sharma this story has a griping suspense build up in the middle of the story that makes it impossible to pause and you may find yourself finish and complete it in one breath.
‘Love with Fire’ by Dr. Paromita Mukherjee Ojha is story with shades of love, denial, hate, revenge and deceit. Strange is love and strange are the feelings that come with rejection that reveals the true nature of humans. The engaging tale has indeed all the elements of a thriller.
‘Ratha Katteri’ by Varadharajan Ramesh is a folklore of a creature with an unquenchable bloodlust. The kingdom of King Vikrama Varma feels unsafe with a monstrous entity – Ratha Ketteri. The astrologers claim the influence of Mars and reincarnation on king’s younger brother. What havoc and terror does he bring to the kingdom and who would control it. It’s a wonderful mythical tale of horror by the wonderful writer.
‘Being immortal’ by Preeti S. Manaktala : Now, since I wrote this story I cannot review it myself , but here is a short summary instead.
Can dreams turn you and your personality into becoming demonic? Can dreams run you and your day? This tale tells the story of a woman who is stalked by evil voices in her head and the grisly dreams that makes her do evil things which turns her into the vile women that she is not.
‘In Your Bloody Eyes’ by Rashmi Agrawal is a vengeance tale with intriguing twist and turns. Quick turn of events, planned moves and an interesting plot makes it engaging for the readers to indulge in this treat.
‘Fly with Me Love’ by Preethi Warrier is a story that builds up well right from the very start, and you will find yourself completing the story in no time. A very well crafted unique tale of a family’s tussle with violence and disturbed life. The writer has crafted a true thriller in every sense.
‘A Complot on the foothills’ is an intriguing story set in the foothills of a quaint township. Penned by Moushumi Bhattacharjee it portrays dark truth of the today’s current times. It’s a story of a murder which is camouflaged as an accident, the search for the culprit and the underlying corruption holds the story together making it very gripping.
When a bestselling crime author moves into a house with a dark history, he finds himself write the story of the house dweller who vanished into thin air. Would he be able to get to the core of the truth and find the real culprit or will all his efforts too vanish into thin air. ‘The Fulcher House Mystery’ by Zainab MM is a story that the readers would wish does not end.
‘Forbidden’ by Nandita De nee Chatterjee tells a story of the sexual harassment and molestation of a section of vulnerable tribal group, the Adivasi girls. It is a story about three girls on their anthropology project in a small town near Khargone. It is an intriguing tale of eerie encounter, salvage and belief.
All the stories in this collection absolutely fit in into this book -The Macabre Tales , published by Chrysanthemum Chronicles this book shall keep you on the edge and you may want to wish for a part 2 by the end of it.
A little about the publishing house - Chrysanthemum Chronicles :
This is the utopian land of contemporary fables, folklores, whimsical tales and verses. It is a place of candid expressions of literary journeys in abundance. It is a publishing house which gives shape to myriad unspoken, unheard voices from Asian subcontinents and across the globe through its literary voyage.
A book review by -
Preeti S Manaktala

Reviewed in India on 23 June 2021
I say-- “ Do sit at home and keep fear as close as possible to you, because before you know it by the end of this book , you may just lose it and become fearless!”
“Macabre Tales” is a thriller anthology brought together by Chrysanthemum Chronicles. It is a dystopian corpus ignited by Monalisa Joshi, the director and founder of CC, the book was edited under the fine guidance of a brilliant poet and writer/editor Nandita De nee Chatterjee. The book has 17 short stories written by prolific splendid writers.
Dr. Santosh Bakaya a seasoned and amazing writer, sets the mood for this thriller, her story ‘And the fireplace roared on’ is unimaginably mysterious that will keep you guessing till the end. It is about a new year’s party, the exuberant guest and their lively discussion on the liquor, entrepreneurial skills, love for antique, ailments, poetry and stock market et al. And amongst all this vanity talks were two guest who were uninvited. Story set in the cold winter of December with the fireplace roaring, what was the purpose of these two gatecrashers? Who were they?
‘The Patient’ by Harshali Singh throws light on the Dissociative Identity Disorder and the ordeals a senior doctor faces under politics and power play. In the fight between the wrong and the right, who wins? It’s a story about a person’s multiple personality disorder, and complicating decisions making by the medical fraternity.
‘Last of the Pench Tigers’ by Antara Banerjee is a story which will shake you up to womanhood and woman power. When the submissive wounded ones take charge to revenge and find justice in their own hands, hell breaks loose. This is a must to be read story of unrelenting spirit, terrifying acts by brave women, and the echoes of their defiance and confrontations.
‘Larceny of Identity’ by Purba Chakraborty is a story about human insecurities , revenge and denial. It is a story about deceit and lies using a doppelganger. It is an intriguing tale and depicts human shades of revenge and jealously.
‘Kurchi-The wild flower’s tale’ is an titillating tale about a couple’s lustful nights of obsessive love and yet their lack of steam in their conjugal togetherness. Lopamudra Banerjee has beautifully crafted femininity revealing the insides of a yearning women, her yearnings and search for something unknown.
‘The Last Train to Earth’ by Monalisa Joshi is a fascinating story, with an interesting name to it that makes you want to read about this last train. Who are the passengers and why is it the last train ? The story about a women who desperately wants to get onto this train but why? This riveting story of longing and separation will leave you spellbound.
‘The Elixir and the Nemesis’ by Sreeparna Sen is a suspense thriller in the real sense. The plot develops quickly and swiftly, shifting focus and makes you race your mind a la Sherlock Holmes to find the real culprit and the victim. The story is engrossing and will keep you hooked till the end.
‘The Connoisseur’ by Alipi Das is an interesting tale about a blast from the past and how the past tries to revel the doings, jolting an unrelated family of their peace and sanity. The narrative is strong and keeps you glues till the end.
How buckled up emotions can turn into grief and loneliness, hate and regret is what ‘Delusion’ is all about. With a fine and crisp narration by Muskan Sharma this story has a griping suspense build up in the middle of the story that makes it impossible to pause and you may find yourself finish and complete it in one breath.
‘Love with Fire’ by Dr. Paromita Mukherjee Ojha is story with shades of love, denial, hate, revenge and deceit. Strange is love and strange are the feelings that come with rejection that reveals the true nature of humans. The engaging tale has indeed all the elements of a thriller.
‘Ratha Katteri’ by Varadharajan Ramesh is a folklore of a creature with an unquenchable bloodlust. The kingdom of King Vikrama Varma feels unsafe with a monstrous entity – Ratha Ketteri. The astrologers claim the influence of Mars and reincarnation on king’s younger brother. What havoc and terror does he bring to the kingdom and who would control it. It’s a wonderful mythical tale of horror by the wonderful writer.
‘Being immortal’ by Preeti S. Manaktala : Now, since I wrote this story I cannot review it myself , but here is a short summary instead.
Can dreams turn you and your personality into becoming demonic? Can dreams run you and your day? This tale tells the story of a woman who is stalked by evil voices in her head and the grisly dreams that makes her do evil things which turns her into the vile women that she is not.
‘In Your Bloody Eyes’ by Rashmi Agrawal is a vengeance tale with intriguing twist and turns. Quick turn of events, planned moves and an interesting plot makes it engaging for the readers to indulge in this treat.
‘Fly with Me Love’ by Preethi Warrier is a story that builds up well right from the very start, and you will find yourself completing the story in no time. A very well crafted unique tale of a family’s tussle with violence and disturbed life. The writer has crafted a true thriller in every sense.
‘A Complot on the foothills’ is an intriguing story set in the foothills of a quaint township. Penned by Moushumi Bhattacharjee it portrays dark truth of the today’s current times. It’s a story of a murder which is camouflaged as an accident, the search for the culprit and the underlying corruption holds the story together making it very gripping.
When a bestselling crime author moves into a house with a dark history, he finds himself write the story of the house dweller who vanished into thin air. Would he be able to get to the core of the truth and find the real culprit or will all his efforts too vanish into thin air. ‘The Fulcher House Mystery’ by Zainab MM is a story that the readers would wish does not end.
‘Forbidden’ by Nandita De nee Chatterjee tells a story of the sexual harassment and molestation of a section of vulnerable tribal group, the Adivasi girls. It is a story about three girls on their anthropology project in a small town near Khargone. It is an intriguing tale of eerie encounter, salvage and belief.
All the stories in this collection absolutely fit in into this book -The Macabre Tales , published by Chrysanthemum Chronicles this book shall keep you on the edge and you may want to wish for a part 2 by the end of it.
A little about the publishing house - Chrysanthemum Chronicles :
This is the utopian land of contemporary fables, folklores, whimsical tales and verses. It is a place of candid expressions of literary journeys in abundance. It is a publishing house which gives shape to myriad unspoken, unheard voices from Asian subcontinents and across the globe through its literary voyage.
A book review by -
Preeti S Manaktala
