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Insect Hag and Other Stories
2025
First Published
4.18
Average Rating
144
Number of Pages

Yvette Tan's third short story collection brings you an infestation of love, death, and pests. Shari seeks the help of an insect hag to cure the boils on her boyfriend's body, and maybe get answers for the disembodied voice cursing her. Rhys searches for the grave of an old friend—where something, or someone, awaits him. In the lone novella, Joy unearths her grandmother's anting-anting to avenge her murdered husband. These are some of the stories in Insect Hag and Other Stories, warning you of seen and unseen forces that root themselves firmly in this plane, seeking revenge and solace. Each one is told with folk realism and a creeping unease that have long secured Yvette Tan's place as the queen of Philippine horror stories.

Avg Rating
4.18
Number of Ratings
110
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Author

Yvette Tan
Yvette Tan
Author · 6 books

YVETTE NATALIE U. TAN is a Manila-based horror writer. Her works have been published in The Philippine Free Press, the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the Manila Times, Uno magazine, Rogue magazine, Story Philippines, and the Philippine Genre Stories, among others. Her fiction has also appeared in anthologies such as Sleepless in Manila and Philippine Speculative Fiction II and III.

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