Nicky Moey

Nicky Moey is a Singaporean writer, best known for his collections of fiction stories.[1]

Nicky Moey
Born1964
CitizenshipSingaporean
Period1986 - 1992
Notable worksSongs of Suspense

Career

Nicky Moey was born on 26 April 1964. In his growing-up years, he spent his leisure playing marbles, flying kites, catching fighting spiders and keeping a variety of pets. He took an interest in reading when he was fourteen and began writing stories at nineteen. Nicky is a former student of Sembawang Hills Estate School (1971–1976), Raffles Institution (1977–1980) and National Junior College (1981–1982). He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the National University of Singapore in 1989.

In 1986 Nicky published his first book, Let's Play Games (Times Books International); this collection of 13 short stories, which range from horror to crime to fantasy, was in 1990 re-issued as Pontianak: 13 Chilling Tales.[2] The Singapore Police commissioned him to dramatise some of their cases, which were published in 1987 in the book, 999: True Cases from the CID (Times Books International). This was followed in 1988 by another collection of fiction stories, Sing a Song of Suspense (Times Books International), re-issued as Songs of Suspense in 1990.

In 1991, commissioned by the Shell Group of Companies in Singapore, he wrote their commemorative book, The Shell Endeavour: First 100 years in Singapore (Times Editions) and a year later had his first novel Princess of Darkness (Times Books International) published. In January 1994 Nicky published his third collection of fiction stories, Army Ghost Stories and Other Tales (Promethean Integrated). Lurking In the Dark (2003) (Promethean Integrated) comprises three new stories, five stories from Sing a Song of Suspense and five from Army Ghost Stories and Other Tales. In 2014, The Travelling Companion and Other Stories, a collection of seven non-horror fiction stories, was published. Nicky has also written articles for 8 Days, NTUC Lifestyle and Accent.

Works
  • Let's Play Games (1986, Times Books International) ISBN 9971653648
  • 999: True Cases from the CID (1987, 2000, Times Books International) ISBN 9971654067
  • Sing a Song of Suspense (1988, Times Books International) ISBN 9812041877
  • The Shell Endeavour: First 100 years in Singapore (1991, Times Editions) ISBN 9812043071
  • Princess of Darkness (1992, Times Books International) ISBN 9812043713
  • The Lake (1992, unpublished short story)
  • Army Ghost Stories and Other Tales (1994, Promethean Integrated) ISBN 9810053010
  • Lurking In the Dark: 13 Tales of Terror (2003, Promethean Integrated) ISBN 9810489544
  • The Travelling Companion and Other Stories (2014), N. Moey, ISBN 9789810911324 (hardback)and ISBN 9789810911331 (paperback)

References
  1. Yamada, Teri Shaffer (2009-01-01). Modern short fiction of Southeast Asia: a literary history. Association for Asian Studies, Inc. pp. 228–. ISBN 978-0-924304-52-1. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
  2. "Nicky Moey (Author of Song of Suspense)". Retrieved 2011-09-04.
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