Growing up, he spent his leisure playing marbles, flying kites, catching fighting spiders and keeping a variety of pets, including aquarium fish.
After graduation, Moey worked as a feature writer in Shusse, a now-deregistered magazine publishing house, for a year.
This collection of 13 short stories, which range from horror to crime to fantasy, was in 1990 re-issued as Pontianak: 13 Chilling Tales, with higher sales.
Cyril Wong has compared his writing on supernatural elements to Stephen King, further commenting that Moey's horror books are good, and "about more existential things and growing up.
"[11] His style has also been described as having a "satirist's touch" while weaving his storied with moral lessons through an eye for detail on traditional folklore and cultural superstitions.