An innocent woman pushed to her death by a judgmental community. An employer murdered by his butcher like a pig for slaughter. Crispy pata possibly made from the human body.
These are just among the stories Johannes L. Chua, or J.L. Chua, wrote in his collection, “Kuwentong Butsero.” The stories are nothing short of graphic, disturbing, and as Chua himself said in the introduction, “Hindi madaling basahin ang librong ito.”
But there is more to the collection than meets the eye.
Although it does fall under the thriller genre, it poses a more important question: “What should we really be afraid of?”
Chua sat down with GMA News Online to talk more about “Kuwentong Butsero,” and the horrors of real life.
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