Manananggal Terrorizes Manila and Other Stories by Jessica Zafra (Book)

Manananggal Terrorizes Manila and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Filipino author Jessica Zafra. It was first published by Anvil Publishing in 1992. The collection contains 15 stories including Portents, the story that won first place in the 1991 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature in the short story category.

The stories featured in the collection are:

1. The Word-Eaters
2. Portents
3. Manananggal Terrorizes Manila
4. Face in the Crowd
5. What's In Your Glass
6. Scylla and Charybdis
7. Romeo, et. al.
8. "_____ Was Here"
9. Ten Thousand Easters at the Vatican
10. Doppelganger
11. The Ouija Board of Thomas Edison
12. The Wide Open Eyes of Madness
13. Kind of Brown
14. My Dog Is Dead
15. Through a Time Warp, With a Paddle

The blurb at the back of the book:

Jessica Zafra writes a column, "Womenagerie" in Woman Today and her articles have appeared in Metro. Her story, "Portents" won first place in the 1991 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards fpr Literature. She was a UP Summer Writers' Workshop Fellow in 1985.

Jessica was a scholar at the Philippine High School and moved on to the University of the Philippines to major in Comparative Literature.

Manananggal Terrorizes Manila and Other Stories by Jessica Zafra

Other books by Jessica Zafra:

1. The Age of Umbrage