Haunted: Terrifying Real-life Encounters with Ghosts and Spirits

Jay Alani · Neil D’silva

Oct 2019 · Penguin Random House India Private Limited

About this eBook

An entire town that was abandoned overnight
A fort that fell to ruins due to a curse
Mines where twenty thousand miners were trapped and perished
A village where black magic is a way of life
A fair where exorcisms are performed in public
Such are the locations dotting the colourful paranormal map of India. Intrepid adventurers and regular tourists alike have often dared to visit these places to experience for themselves their fascinating lure, and to see if ghosts truly haunt these regions. However, those who have ventured there have often returned with more questions than answers-if at all they have returned.
Haunted chronicles the real-life adventures of paranormal investigator Jay Alani in ten of the spookiest locations in India. Co-authored by Neil D'Silva, these exploits provide a ringside view of these hair-raising paranormal journeys for everyone who has an interest in exploring the dark side of the normal.

Ratings and reviews

This collection of stories by Jay Alani and his co-author, Neil D'Silva, is pretty scary and raises our hackles a number of times. The key aspect that has been highlighted over here is that while the stories tel us about ghosts, spirits and paranormal activities, it is actually humans who are much more scarier and harmful, all across. Craving to know more about these places/ spots mentioned in all these stories.

  My Books Browse ▾ Community ▾ Ayan Chakraborty rated a book it was amazing 3 months ago  Haunted: Terrifying Real-life Encounters with Ghosts and... by Jay Alani Want to Read There are very few horror books that have the capacity to scare the soul out of you and this book is definitely one of them. I literally had a few sleepless nights after reading this book. The writing was so direct and engaging that I genuinely felt the fear, the tension, the emotion that Jay Alani was feeling at various haunted locations. There were moments when I had to stop reading in between, in order to digest what I had just read. I really appreciate author Neil D'silva for narrating such mind-numbing real incidents in a most authentic way as it meant to be presented and for not compromising the stories by mincing the words to give it an artistic approach. Huge respect for Jay Alani for covering topics like superstitions and black magics and how these things are rotting our society from the

I read his podcast wanted to suggest it to my friends in abroad it's nice to find it in English now they can read it too.

About the author

NEIL D’SILVA is an author with a proclivity for the horror genre. He quit a teaching career of eighteen years and made the shift into fulltime writing at the age of forty. Success came to him when his debut novel, Maya’s New Husband, hit #1 on the Amazon.in bestseller list, in the horror category. Since then he has been placed on several lists featuring Indian horror novelists. He gives back to the writing and reading community of India through his annual litfest, Litventure. Neil has spoken on the TEDx platform and has also conducted writing workshops at esteemed institutions such as IIT Kanpur. Neil lives in Mumbai with his wife, Anita, and their two children, Gilmore and Felicia.