“Book Descriptions: In Tales For A Rainy Season, Wincy Aquino Ong brings a uniquely Filipino-flavored spin on the horror genre, and the frights come at you like an apocalyptic weather report.
In this collection of eleven stories, Ong takes you through the corners of Manila and brings you fresh new monsters that come knocking on rain-speckled windows.
Step inside a watery hellscape where mysterious canisters fall from the sky ("Fumes"), a mer-woman terrorises a family during a typhoon ("Delubyo"), an ex-convict discovers the magical properties of consecrated clay ("Angels In The Mud"), a socialite gets abducted by a buffalo-faced vigilante ("Beware This Dark-Eyed Observer"), and animals grow new appendages ("Thumbs").
This anthology also finds Ong dipping his toe into literary pastiche and detective fiction in "The Ophthalmologist's Case", where Sherlock Holmes meets his most peculiar client yet—Dr. Jose Rizal.
Evocative, haunting, and deliciously macabre, this collection is best consumed in the dark of a rainy day.
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Wincy Gerard Aquino Ong is a Filipino musician, director, actor, writer, illustrator, and podcaster. Tales For A Rainy Season is his first collection of fiction.” DRIVE