Book excerpt: About the Book: This book isn’t for the soft bellies as it includes heart-wrenching short stories with paranormal and strange events. These narratives are riveting, suspenseful, breathtaking, and often include unsuspecting plot twists. The stories use a vast variety of themes such as catastrophic scientific experiments, horrendous crimes, large-scale wars, gruesome discoveries and cliff-hanging endings. The suspense never stops building and will leave you on tinder hooks. In these narratives, the main protagonist is always caught up in the firing line and attempts to escape narrow corners. However, the often-climactic twists may alter the character’s journeys or his fate...With the protagonist struggling to balance himself in a life-or-death situation, his survival is questionable in this game of cat and mouse. About the Author: Vihaan Dalal, aged twelve, is a student currently studying in Year 7. He resides in Melbourne, Australia. He has a thirst for learning and achieving big goals in his life. Vihaan aspires to study at a prestigious university and aims high to start his career as a novelist. One of his talents is to improvise a suspenseful scenario and weave it into a story. Throughout his writing career, Vihaan has written numerous suspenseful stories to keep his readers avid. This is the young author's first book, which contains his top stories from the past two years. Overall, Vihaan's thrilled to commence his writing career and may publish more stories.