Horror

The Hungry Ghosts

by Anne Berry

Alice Safford, daughter of Hong Kong's colonial elite, encounters the hungry ghost of a Chinese girl murdered during Japanese occupation in an old army hospital's morgue. Berry excavates colonial violence and buried trauma through Gothic possession, where the dead claim the living as hosts and historical sins refuse burial. Atmospheric and politically charged, anchored in the haunted landscape of postwar Hong Kong.

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