She and her friends have a history of investigating haunted sites together in Kuala Lumpur, using Cat’s extrasensory ability as their spectral entity detector. While most haunted house stories follow skeptical characters resistant to the idea that the house they occupy is haunted, Khaw’s characters choose their house specifically because they want to see ghosts.Ĭat is haunted by the past in more ways than one. Two of Cat’s ghost-hunting friends have decided to have the morbid wedding of their dreams, and a wealthy member of the group has used his family’s money for temporary (and illegal) access to the abandoned mansion. There she joins four friends with whom she has an emotionally complex past. Not yet reacclimated to the world outside the hospital, she is invited to Japan for an all-expenses-paid destination wedding at a Heian-era mansion said to be haunted by the ghost of a lonely bride. Cat, a Malaysian student of Japanese literature and an empath, has just emerged from six months of voluntary commitment in a psychiatric hospital for suicidal depression. In their new novella, Nothing But Blackened Teeth, Malaysian author Cassandra Khaw delivers a fresh new twist on the haunted house tale.
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