The author's recent works focus on Malaysian history for children. His collection of tales, Horror Stories, is a significant best-selling book in Malaysia and his latest retrospective collection Scream to the Shadows published by Penguin Random House SEA will expand his readership in Asia and internationally. His latest novel, A Malaysian Restaurant in London, is more conventional, being a paranormal love story. His novel, Last Breath, is seen as taking a step away from the genre into "a mixture of character drama, satire, alternate history and magic realism". By delving into Malay myth, legends and folklore his writing is regarded as "World Gothic". His novel Vermillion Eye was a study text at the National University of Singapore. The author's fiction primarily falls within the dark fantasy and horror genre. Tunku Halim bin Tunku Abdullah (born 1964) is a Malaysian novelist, short story, non-fiction writer and lawyer. The Arabic-derived word "bin" or "binti"/"binte", if used, means 'son of' or 'daughter of', respectively. The name Tunku Abdullah is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Halim. In this Malay name, there is no family name.
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