THE PONTIANAK, IN FICTION The following is one of a pairs of essays I wrote as a Stretch Goal for A PERFECT WIFE. Pretty basic stuff for hantu aficionados, of course. But it is designed as orientation for GMs / players who are unfamiliar with the Malaysian context—a primer of the pontianak’s pop-cultural significance; an author’s note for why I wanted to treat her story the way I did. This essay—alongside another essay titled “The Supernatural, in Southeast Asia—will appear as app...
