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03452aam a2200541 i 4500 001 D9926E46EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220617010046 008 191106s2019 si 000 j eng 010 $a 2019353963 020 $a 9814841935 020 $a 9789814841931 035 $a (OCoLC)1102658079 040 $a SINLB $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SINLB $d OCLCF $d DLC $d YDXIT $d PAU $d YDX $d BDX $d CUV $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a lcode $a lcode 050 00 $a PR9570.S53 $b L483 2019 082 04 $a S823 $a S823 $2 23 100 1 $a Lim, Catherine, $e author. 245 14 $a The loving and the dead : $b tales of the supernatural / $c Catherine Lim. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Singapore : $b Marshall Cavendish Editions, $c [2019] 300 $a 142 pages ; $c 20 cm 520 $a "Catherine Lim's free-wheeling imagination cheerfully dispenses with all constraints to tell stories of that other world. Written with an exaggerated sense of earnestness and caution, the eighteen tales in this collection elicit in the reader the very goosebumps of terror she had herself experienced as a child listening to such tales. As an adult, these goosebumps persist for her. However, they no longer arise from fear, but from a sense of awe and mystery that she feels when she considers this large existential question: Despite our extensive scientific knowledge today, what do we know of the supernatural? What can we know of the supernatural? Catherine's deep and abiding sense of mystery is reflected in the pronouncement by one of her characters in the last story in this collection: "I don't know, I don't know. I wish I did""-- $c Provided by publisher. 546 $a In English. 505 00 $g Machine generated contents note: $t Non-Believer. $t The Old Man At The Top Of The Stairs -- $t Ah Chow's Bed -- $t "Where Have I Seen That Face Before?" -- $t Kong Kong's Teeth -- $t Voices -- $t The Letters -- $t No 32, Greenglenn Crescent -- $t Amat's Story -- $t Proof -- $t Purgatory -- $t The Village Idiot -- $t The Favourite Son -- $t The Journalist -- $t Doppelganger -- $t The Footprints Of Love -- $t The Return -- $t Non-Believer. 650 0 $a Ghost stories, Singaporean. 650 0 $a Paranormal fiction. 650 0 $a Singaporean fiction (English) 650 0 $a Short stories, Singaporean. 650 7 $a Ghost stories, Singaporean. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01746809 650 7 $a Paranormal fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01775199 650 7 $a Short stories, Singaporean. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01432185 650 7 $a Singaporean fiction (English) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01432192 655 7 $a ghost stories. $2 aat $0 (CStmoGRI)aatgf300254823 655 7 $a short stories. $2 aat $0 (CStmoGRI)aatgf300202607 655 7 $a Ghost stories. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726625 655 7 $a Paranormal fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921727 655 7 $a Short stories. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726740 655 7 $a Ghost stories. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Paranormal fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Short stories. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Histoires de fantoÌmes. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000309 655 7 $a Nouvelles. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000322 710 2 $a Marshall Cavendish Editions, $e publisher. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Lim, Catherine. $t Loving and the dead. $d Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Editions, [2019] $z 9789814868662 $w (OCoLC)1127849749 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117021835.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D9926E46EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search