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. ___ 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.
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Wincy Aquino Ong is a Filipino author, illustrator, musician, director, actor, and podcaster. He is mostly known as a songwriter for the bands Narda, Us-2 Evil-0 and Patience Dear Juggernaut, the director behind the films San Lazaro and Overtime, and an actor in the TV series Rakista. He is also the co-host of the podcast, The Telebabad Tapes. He has written for various publications such as The Philippine Star, Esquire, Northern Living, 8list.ph, Windowseat.ph, amongst others. His first published short story appeared in Neil Gaiman's Expeditions Prose Vol. 1, The Philippine Graphic / Fiction Awards. He wrote the liner notes for the Eraserhead's Circus limited edition vinyl release. He currently resides in Makati, with his wife Cj de Silva, and their two cats Andres and Max.
