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The Borrowed Skin
Paperback
Publisher: I.Z.N.a
Published: Oct 24 2025
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Borrowed Skin
A chilling modern horror inspired by Southeast Asian folklore.
Five university friends in Manchester have a brilliant idea for their final Halloween together to cosplay ghosts from Malay and Indo legends:
Pontianak, Pocong, Kum Kum, Jenglot, and Hantu Galah.
It was supposed to be FUN.
A night of laughter, photos, and one last memory before adulthood pulled them apart.
But when they order their authentic costumes from a mysterious online shop,
the line between myth and reality begins to blur.
The clothes arrive old, stained, and disturbingly real.
Each carries a story. Each carries a soul.
And each is tagged with the name of a dead person.
Little did they know, they had crossed a boundary no one should ever cross.
Soon, whispers follow them.
Calls come in a foreign tongue.
Knocks echo through empty rooms.
And faces that aren't their own begin to stare back from the mirror.
The spirits they imitated were never meant to be worn.
Because some spirits don't haunt.
They replace.
The Borrowed Skin is a haunting, slow-burn supernatural horror that explores belief, identity, and the terrifying cost of curiosity - a tale that lingers long after you've closed the last page.
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