Mahtab Narsimhan

ALLi Author Member

Location: Canada

Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Literary Fiction, Young Adult (YA), Mystery, Horror, Children's general

Skills: Writing Workshop, Reading/Literary Event, Press/Media Interview

MAHTAB NARSIMHAN is an award-winning author with numerous critically acclaimed books, nominated for several awards, including The Third Eye which won the Silver Birch Fiction Award. She is inspired by the desire to make sense of the world through stories and is deeply committed to representing diversity in her books. Please visit www.mahtabnarsimhan.com for more information.

Mahtab Narsimhan's books

WARNED : The Astrologer's Prophecy

12-year-old city boy Avi just got dumped at a crumbling mansion in rural India while his parents are away on a medical mission. No Wi-Fi. No cell signal. No company besides a grandfather he barely knows and his sinister servant. The only glimmer of excitement on the horizon is when an astrologer at the local fair predicts Avi is about to die a horrible death.
Of course, that’s just superstitious nonsense. But when the astrologer’s dire predictions start to come true one by one, Avi fears his time may be running out. He's too young to die! Can he trust mysterious town outcast, Lalita, to help solve the mystery of the ominous prophecies before his own untimely death?
Eerie Tales from the East brings you scary stories from around the world with a contemporary twist. Each story in the series can be read as a standalone and highlights a myth, superstition, or ghost story from an Asian country, set amidst the complexities of the modern world. Ordinary characters must rise to extraordinary challenges or risk losing the ones they love in these chilling and fast-paced novels with heart for 8-12+ year old fans of Goosebumps, Scare Street, and Five Nights at Freddy’s.

HAUNTED: The Cursed Lake

12-year-old Jonah and his mother have just reopened Camp Sunny Acres after a horrific tragedy drove the last owners away. They’re desperate to make it a success, but new camper, Dexter, won’t stop breaking the rules and doing his best to let everyone know how much he hates it there. To make matters worse, Jonah suspects that the mysterious disturbance in the lake might be a restless spirit.

Jonah has to consider the success of Camp Sunny Acres as well as the safety of the campers and himself, and they can hardly call it quits over a bad feeling. A counselor’s campfire story based on a Chinese myth where a drowned soul lies in wait for its next victim, sounds eerily similar to what’s going on at Sunny Acres.
But Jonah’s worst fears come to life during a freak storm when the malevolent ghost captures his mother. Can Jonah and his friends find a way to appease the spirit of the dead camper and rescue his mother—or is she doomed to replace the drowned boy in the cursed lake?

Eerie Tales from the East brings you scary stories from around the world with a contemporary twist. Each story in the series can be read as a standalone and highlights a myth, superstition, or ghost story from an Asian country, set amidst the complexities of the modern world. Ordinary characters must rise to extraordinary challenges or risk losing the ones they love in these chilling and fast-paced novels with heart for 8-12+ year old fans of Goosebumps, The Jumbies, and Paola Santiago and the River of Tears.

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