The Haunting Of Dr. Rahim-Ud-Din Shamsi and Other Unsettling Tales

A dentist in 1990s Lahore begins to notice strange patterns in his patients—unnerving, silent, and entirely unexplainable. Born with a sixth finger and once warned by a tarot reader that his life would never be ordinary, Dr. Rahim-ud-Din Shamsi finds himself caught between science and the unseen. Set in a Pakistan straddling old worlds and new, this slow-burning horror—drawn from true accounts—follows the unraveling of a man who wanted nothing more than an ordinary life, but was never meant to live one.

In another corner of the city, Farwah Sheraz still dreams of the man she once loved. When her husband Faraz vanished without a trace, he took with him every certainty she’d ever known. Years passed. A new marriage followed. Then one night, Faraz returned—not as the man she remembered, but as something colder, quieter, and far less human. What follows is a sensual, terrifying unraveling of grief and memory, as Farwah is pulled between two lives and two men: one who haunts her nights, and one who shares her bed.

Bareera Khurram lives in Karachi’s finest house with the finest surname. But she forgets conversations, hears voices no one else hears, and wakes up with bruises no one remembers giving her. Therapy reveals layers of trauma—some inherited, some inflicted, and some entirely unholy. What begins as a standard psychological assessment spirals into something far darker, as the therapist herself starts questioning where the patient ends and the entity begins.