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