L-Imxajtna by Joseph A. Cachia has just been published. This collection of nine horror stories is designed to leave you questioning whether the chilling events within could have actually occurred.

In some of the stories in the 304-page book there is the question whether there is any connection between the living and the dead that can bring them together. The living may meet the dead... or the one who pretends to be dead. And how do spirits, good and evil, impact those who have lived their lives as if nothing exists beyond death's final breath?

In these stories we will meet a girl possessed by the devil in the time of Grand Master Pinto. We also meet a man who claims to continue to have ties with his mother even after her death. Then there are those mother and daughter who dream the same dreams in connection with a crime committed more than a hundred years earlier.

Toward the close of the 19th century, a ship docked in Malta carrying a creature destined to alter the course of one family's life. The consequence of this is still felt to this day when a man with one hand recounts a macabre event. And do you want to look in a mirror and see yourself as you're going to be 50 years from now?

This is Cachia's three collection of horror stories published by BDL. The other two books, Id-Deffien taċ-Ċimiterju and Ara Ġejja l-Mewt Għalik, are also available from major booksellers