: ‘Mortuary Tales’: A new book of uncanny stories from Mumbai of horror, real or imagined #IndiaNEWS Aman Malhotra peeped through the eyehole on the door. The corridor of the fourth floor was empty,

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‘Mortuary Tales’: A new book of uncanny stories from Mumbai of horror, real or imagined #IndiaNEWS
Aman Malhotra peeped through the eyehole on the door. The corridor of the fourth floor was empty, just like it had been twenty minutes ago. What could change in twenty minutes? Not much, maybe. Or a lot, perhaps. He wasn’t sure of too much these days. Over the past six months he’d grown obsessed with the Falerios, particularly Mrs Donnae Falerio, who lived on the floor above. His ears had gained a degree of sharpness in all the time he’d spent as a recluse in this rented apartment, and he was sure of this: the Falerios, who lived on the fifth floor of Harmony Cooperative Housing Society, were sharpening their fangs for him. They were monsters who had crossed over to the human realm. Even now, he could hear their voices ringing with malevolence. About three years ago, when Aman was twenty-four years old, he landed in Mumbai from Gurgaon where his father owned a car rental business that had been adversely affected by the onslaught of multinational cab aggregators which ran their fleets through apps. Like so many others, he had come to this city to become a film star. He had done some groundwork for it, taking acting classes and working...Read more

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