SPIRITS

Episode 1's

How would you feel if you could see ghosts since the age of seven? At first you thought everyone was just like you. See what you see. But as your legs extend until your pants get bigger, you realize that you are ‘different’ from your friends. The longer the vision is not just vision. But it has turned into a terror that makes you never sleep well again. That's what I went through from childhood to adolescence. It felt ‘painful’ was considered strange and shunned friends just because I often saw something that should not be seen. They said, ‘you've been cursed’.

For you to know; standing between the dark and the light is sometimes much scarier than actually being on one of its most concentrated sides. Then I decided that I wanted to tell you about what has made me ‘dikut’.

The nights of writing this novel are heavy. Not because of the writer block that attacked, because from the beginning the idea of this novel was sparked, I already knew all the things I wanted to write. Then, why?

That's because ‘dia’ in the story often comes annoying and sits next to me. As if ‘dia’ wants to confirm that I have ‘dikuk’.

ARWAH is the first novel of several horror novels that I will write with Bang Guntur, and the idea comes from urban legend. I'm not promising this story will scare you into sleeping alone or into the toilet when you wake up in the middle of the night after reading it. Only one thing I want you to know, “those who die, never really die.”

Jounatans