The talking dead review

The Talking dead 

By Chandrima Das

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My Rating 4/5

Horrifying

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Synopsis

"Do you think people stop talking to you once they are dead?"
Four terrifying stories drawn from real-life events. Four gripping tales straight from the supernatural heart of India. Four surreal stories that will twist their way into your nightmares.
A suicide room in an old hostel...
A bizarre prank involving human parts...
A long lonely walk at midnight...
An icy cold welcome to a brand new city...
Hold on to your seats and get ready for a ride to the strange, dark edges of reality. Let's hope that you make it back. After all, a book is one of the oldest ways for the dead to talk to the living.

" I exist , I am not your hallucination , not your imagination. I am real as real as the ringing pain in your ears right now. "

I have always been skeptical of horror story books because either they are rushed or feel like the story is not fitting together.

But,

The Talking dead by Chandrima Das changed my view. There are four horror stories each accompanied by an engaging and interesting plot. The eighty two pages book never feels boring and as every story ends , you will start reading the next one with the curiosity of a child.

There are stories that feels absolutely connected with our real life , and then their is other story which provides a new aspect of looking at ghosts and spiritual world. You will admire , hate and feel pity for the protagonists in the stories.

Stories will surely make you paranoid. Every story of the talking dead is definitely nightmare matterial. None of the stories felt confusing or excessively violent , and all of them had some unpredictable aspect to them , which made them fun to read.

Each story is not directly related to each other but the dark and horror theme makes it easy for the reader to read them. Consecutively stories of the talking dead are bound to scare you and entertain you with beautifully written stories. I got the chills so many times between each story.

Read it , till it starts giving you nightmares and even daymares . Whenever your heart desires them.

About the author

Chandrima Das tells stories that live in the strange territory between truth and fear. She inherited her love for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural from her father, who told his children ghost stories before bedtime. Rest assured, they didn't sleep easy.
After a decade-long career in management consulting, Chandrima took the plunge into full-time writing in 2020. Her work has been featured in various International and Indian publications, including Quartz, Alliance magazine, Scroll, India Development Review, and Open Democracy. Chandrima also enjoys the stage and has performed at more than a dozen shows with with India's longest-running live storytelling platform Tall Tales and was published in THE BEST OF TALL TALES (Rupa, 2018). She was a finalist at Kommune's National Story Slam (2020). Her next book Young Blood (HarperCollins) will be out in 2021.
Chandrima has a B.Tech in Computer science from NIT Durgapur and an MBA from IIM Calcutta. She was born in Shillong and brought up in Guwahati. She lives in 'Amchi' Mumbai, struggling to minimize her living costs and maximize her writing time every day.