"Sacred Evil" by Ipsita Roy Chakraverti is nine paranormal stories. Ipsita Roy Chakraverti (as mentioned in the preface) is a professional Wiccan and a paranormal researcher based in India. The nine stories are true and taken from author's personal files.
The stories are not long but they're not easy to read. The author uses many descriptive words that sometimes distract from the plot. My favorite was the last story "Sacred Evil" that was written in the faster pace and could be digested it easier.
The book's name "Sacred Evil" sounds really evil, however I wouldn't call it a horror book. Stories are about various paranormal occurrences that sometimes psychics and paranormal investigators experience in their work such as a cursed doll, a cursed coconut, marrying fiancée's dead body, seeing a ghost etc...The author takes particular interest in necromancy and religions like voodoo and Wicca which have a bad name abroad (as dealing with the black magic only). Some scenes might be disturbing (such as sleeping with a dead body, human sacrifice and erotic elements like in "My Loving Doll" and "Sacred Evil".
At the end of every story the author explains the phenomena and in which place or culture it is practiced.
I thought the book was OK, the author definitely can write but it depends on your taste in whether you'll enjoy it or not. She doesn't try to be liked or politically correct and in some places might sound narcissistic (especially in the "preface" where she introduces herself and where the word "I" is clearly overused), so it put me off a little bit.
Other than that this book has 9 stories that are based mostly in India and Nepal (also Calcutta and Banaras) which are: The Loving Doll, The Coconut, The Woman in Red, The Rikshaw-Puller, The Goddess, Bungalow Number Thirteen, The Tree, Those Who Return, Sacred Evil.
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