# Tunku Halim > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tunku_Halim > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tunku_Halim.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunku_Halim > Source revision: 1338830715 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Malay name|Halim|Tunku Abdullah|note=on}} '''Tunku Halim bin Tunku Abdullah''' (born 1964) is a Malaysian novelist, short story, non-fiction writer and lawyer. ==Fiction writing== The award-winning author's fiction primarily falls within the dark fantasy, and horror genre. His novel ''Vermillion Eye'' was a study text at the [National University of Singapore](/source/National_University_of_Singapore).Phillips, John. "Torn Pieces: A New Aesthetics of Trash" in ''Post Modern Singapore'' (Lim, William). Select Publishing Pte Ltd, 2002, p. 28. By delving into Malay myth, legends and folklore his writing is regarded as ["World Gothic"](/source/Gothic_fiction).Byron, Glennis. "Where Meaning Collapses" in ''Asian Gothic'' (Ng, Andrew). McFarland and Company, 2008, p. 32. His novel, ''Last Breath'', is seen as taking a step away from the genre into "a mixture of character drama, satire, alternate history and magic realism".Toh, Terence. "Into the Valley of Death" in Star 2, 3 April 2015, p. 16 His latest novel, ''A Malaysian Restaurant in London'', is more conventional, being a paranormal love story. He has since written ''The Midnight Children'', a trilogy for middle-grade readers. He is a recipient of the Fellowship of Australian Writers' short story prize and a three-time winner of Malaysia's Popular-Star Readers' Choice Awards (2015-2017). ==Non-fiction writing== The author's recent works focus on [Malaysian history](/source/Malaysia) for children. This includes ''History of Malaysia, A Children's Encyclopedia'' and ''A Children's History of Malaysia''. His translated work ''Sejarah Malaysia - Ensiklopeida Kanak-kanak'' won the National Book Award (Anugerah Buku Negara) in 2017. ==Education== Tunku Halim went to school at St John's in Kuala Lumpur and later at Cheltenham College in the UK. He qualified as a [barrister](/source/barrister) in the United Kingdom after having obtained his law degree He has been called to the bar in the [High Court of Malaya](/source/High_Court_of_Malaya) and as a solicitor in New South Wales. He holds a [Master of Science](/source/Master_of_Science) degree in Shipping, Trade and Finance (Distinction) from the [City University Business School](/source/City_University_London) in London. ==Career== He practised corporate and conveyancing law at Shearn Delamore in Kuala Lumpur before working for Merit Management Sdn Bhd, the property developer responsible for Tiara Damansara in section 17, [Petaling Jaya](/source/Petaling_Jaya). He later moved to Sydney and took up a position as Legal Counsel to [Oracle Corporation Australia](/source/Oracle_Corporation). After a decade in Sydney, he relocated to Hobart, Tasmania where he self-published his encyclopedia. He currently lives in Malaysia. His mid-career retrospective collection of short stories entitled ''Horror Stories'' sold 32,000 copies became "the best-selling Malaysian English fiction books of all time". The 25th anniversary edition of his second novel, Vermillion Eye, was recently published. ==Bibliography== ===Short story and retrospective collections=== *''The Rape of Martha Teoh & Other Chilling Stories'' (1997) *''BloodHaze: 15 Chilling Tales'' (1999) *''The Woman Who Grew Horns and Other Works'' (2001) *''44 Cemetery Road'' (2007) *''Gravedigger's Kiss'' (2007) *''7 Days to Midnight'' (2013) *''Horror Stories'' (2014) *''Horror Stories 2'' (2016) *''The Rape of Nancy Ng - 13 Nightmares'' (2018) *''Scream to the Shadows'' (2019) *''My Lovely Skull & Other Skeletons'' (2022) ===Short stories in multiple-author anthologies=== *"Hawker Man" (2007, ''[Dark City 2](/source/Dark_City_2)'', ed. Xeus) *"Keramat" (2008, ''[Exotic Gothic](/source/Exotic_Gothic) 2'', ed. [Danel Olson](/source/Danel_Olson)) *"Biggest Baddest Bomoh" (2009, ''[The Apex Book of World SF](/source/The_Apex_Book_of_World_SF)'', ed [Lavie Tidhar](/source/Lavie_Tidhar)) *"In the Village of Setang" (2012, ''[Exotic Gothic](/source/Exotic_Gothic)'' 4, ed. Danel Olson) *"Quatre Numéros Pour Eric Kwok" French translation of "Four Numbers for Eric Kwok" (2016, ''[Jentayu - revue littéraire d'Asie](/source/Jentayu_-_revue_litt%C3%A9raire_d'Asie)'', tr. Brigitte Bresson, ed. Jérôme Bouchaud) *"Man on the 22nd Floor" (2016, ''[Little Basket 2016](/source/Little_Basket_2016)'', ed. Catalina Rembuyan, Lee Ee Leen, Ted Mahsun, Tshiung Han See) *"The Black Bridge" (2018, ''[Best Asian Speculative Fiction](/source/Best_Asian_Speculative_Fiction)'', ed. [Rajat Chaudhuri](/source/Rajat_Chaudhuri)) *"Mr Petronas" (2019, ''[Ronggeng-Ronggeng: Malaysian Short Stories](/source/Ronggeng-Ronggeng%3A_Malaysian_Short_Stories)'', ed. [Edwin Vethamani](/source/Edwin_Vethamani)) *"Three Dead Chickens" (2019, ''[Horror Without Borders](/source/Horror_Without_Borders)'', ed. [Oleg Hasanov](/source/Oleg_Hasanov)) *"Water Flows Deepest" (2022, ''[Destination SEA 2050 AD](/source/Destination_SEA_2050_AD)'', ed. [Tilda Acuna, Anthony G Mendoza-III, Christine Ong Muslim](/source/Tilda_Acuna%2C_Anthony_G_Mendoza-III%2C_Christine_Ong_Muslim)) ===Novels=== *''Dark Demon Rising'' (1997) *''Vermillion Eye'' (2000) *''Juriah's Song'' (2008) *''Last Breath'' (2014) *''A Malaysian Restaurant in London'' (2015) *''Dark Demon Rising - 20th Anniversary Edition'' (2017) *''Vermillion Eye - 25th Anniversary Edition'' (2025) ===Children's novels=== *''A Vanishing - The Midnight Children - Book 1'' (2021) *''Cemetery House - The Midnight Children - Book 2'' (2021) *''The Moonlight World - The Midnight Children - Book 3'' (2021) ===Essays in non-fiction anthologies=== *"Fiction Writing in the Malay World and the Urban Society" (1999, ''[Commentary: The National University of Singapore Society](/source/Commentary%3A_The_National_University_of_Singapore_Society)'') *"Margaret Livesey's ''Eva Moves the Furniture'': Shifting the House of Gothic" (2010, ''[21st Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels since 2000](/source/21st_Century_Gothic%3A_Great_Gothic_Novels_since_2000)'', ed. Danel Olson) ===Non-fiction=== *''Everything the Condominium Developer Should Have Told You But Didn't'' (1992) *''Condominiums: Purchase Investment & Habitat'' (1996) *''Tunku Abdullah – A Passion for Life'' (1998) *''The New Golf Paradigm'' with Kris Barkway (2001) *''A Children's History of Malaysia'' (2003) *''History of Malaysia – A Children's Encyclopedia'' (2009) *''History of Malaysia – A Children's Encyclopedia (2nd Edition)'' (2013) *''So Fat Lah! - 30 Perfect Ways to a Slimmer You'' (2016) *''The "So Fat Lah!" Cookbook'' with Christina Hiew (2018) *''A Prince Called "Charlie"'' (2018) *''A Children's History of Malaysia (2nd Edition)'' (2019) == References == {{Reflist}} {{Malaysian Writers}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Halim, Tunku}} Category:Alumni of City, University of London Category:Malaysian novelists Category:Malaysian non-fiction writers Category:Living people Category:1964 births Category:Malaysian male writers Category:Malaysian people of Malay descent Category:Malaysian Muslims Category:20th-century Malaysian lawyers Category:21st-century Malaysian writers Category:Male non-fiction writers --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Tunku Halim](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunku_Halim) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunku_Halim?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.