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South Indian indie publishing house. Tamil pulp fiction, Urdu detective novels, & Nigerian soyayya in translation. Comics. Ladies with monster boyfriends. More.
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Rajesh Kumar is possibly the world's most prolific living writer of fiction. The Coimbatore-based writer has about 1500 short novels to his credit, having published an average of nearly 3 books per month for the last 50 years.

Read his work in English translation in our Tamil Pulp Fiction anthologies:
https://www.blaft.com/products/the-blaft-anthology-of-tamil-pulp-fiction-volume-2

#pulpfiction
#pulpart
#pulpnovels

Cover of a "Thrill Today" novel by Rajesh Kumar
Cover of a "Great Novel" novel by Rajesh Kumar: "Mortuary House-Full"
Cover of a "Novel Ulagam" (Novel World) by Rajesh Kumar: "Inre Kaadhali" (Today's Girlfriend"

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The new @vajra story about demon summoning at @UncannyMagazine is pretty great

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/theses-on-the-scientific-management-of-goetic-labour/

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Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India has just gone for its third printing in #India and a US/UK edition is due out soon from Watkins.

It's an illustrated encyclopaedia of 300+ folkloric fiends from every corner of the country and all eras of history, from Vedic necromancers to the Devchars of Portuguese Goa to Saamri from the Ramsay Brothers films.

Pre-order your copy now!

https://watkinspublishing.com/books/ghosts-monsters-and-demons-of-india/

#ghostlore #ttrpg #Indiepublishing #bookstodon

Bugarik (Garo water-wight) by Samita Chatterjee
US/UK Edition (Watkins Publishing)
Front cover - India edition

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@juergen_hubert Thanks so much for your order! Mizo Myths is definitely an #ownvoices work. The Ghosts encyclopaedia includes a lot of folklore from tribal traditions that aren't the authors' own; it draws on some of that old colonial public domain stuff, too, but also on the work of many Indian folklorists. We had lots of sensitivity readers too.

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@juergen_hubert You should check out this guy too... he passed a couple of years ago. An absolutely amazing folklorist

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@juergen_hubert Also this
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Kynpham-Sing-Nongkynrih-ed/dp/0143103016/ref=sr_1_1?crid=9PP3DEFWB108&keywords=kynpham+around+the+hearth&qid=1688488595&sprefix=kynpham+around+the+hear%2Caps%2C197&sr=8-1

and this
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Onaiza-Drabu/dp/9389231299/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2GK2COF538Y9J&keywords=onaiza+drabu+nagrai&qid=1688488616&sprefix=onaiza+drabu+nagra%2Caps%2C218&sr=8-1

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@juergen_hubert The Himal and Nagrai story involves a crown that the king of Nagas wears I think. There are various versions online... (But we recommend Onaiza Drabu 's book)

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Twitter used to be our main marketing tool--the primary way we sold books online and got the word out.

These days, not so much.

Please help support us and our authors with a signal boost! We are an independent publisher based in Chennai with books on folklore from different parts of India, graphic novels, ghost encyclopedias, weird horror, pulp fiction in translation, and some wonderfully strange little zines.

https://www.blaft.com/collections/new-arrivals

Front Cover, Moonward by Appupen
Front Cover, Conversations Regarding the Fatalistic Outlook of the Common Man by Kuzhali Manickavel
Front Cover, Tamil Pulp Fiction Vol. 1

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@NatureMC
Thanks for the tips!

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@juergen_hubert Please do! We've got books on folklore from Mizoram https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Cherrie-Lalnunziri-Chhangte/dp/9380636547
and Tamil Nadu
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Ki-Rajanarayanan/dp/819060564X/

and a collection of ghostlore from all over the country, coming soon in a European edition from Watkins

https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Rakesh-Khanna/dp/1786788071

(& If you like them, help find us someone to translate & publish in German!)

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@juergen_hubert And can I just say that "Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles" is a really amazing title

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Bengaluru's very excellent Champaca Bookstore has a book subscription going and GHOSTS, MONSTERS, AND DEMONS OF INDIA is part of it this month, along with Jessica Faliero's AFTERLIFE: GHOST STORIES FROM GOA!

Join here: https://champaca.in/products/champaca-book-subscription

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@Rycaut @marthawells Awesome! Yes you should definitely come visit Champaca, it's a great store

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Next month, we're releasing a new edition of Cherrie Lalnunziri Chhangte's MIZO MYTHS!

Now available for pre-order!

https://www.blaft.com/blogs/news/mizo-myths-2nd-edition-now-available-for-pre-order

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🇺🇲ians: Today, tomorrow & the next day, get 25% off on pre-orders of GHOSTS, MONSTERS, AND DEMONS OF INDIA from Barnes & Noble (use code PREORDER25)

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ghosts-monsters-and-demons-of-india-rakesh-khanna/1138455350

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From the Līlāvatī of Bhaskaracharya, 1150 CE

Can you find the solution?

🎨Somdutt Sarkar

#veryoldmathsproblems
#sanskrit
#bhaskaracharya

One half and another one third of one half of the elephants have gone into a cave. One sixth and another one seventh of one sixth of the elephants are drinking water from a river.
One eighth of the elephants and another one month of one eighth of the elephants are playing in a lotus pond. The king of the elephants, who is a great lover, is leading the last three female elephants into the forest. How many elephants were there in the herd altogether?
Sanskrit text

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*Crime & detective fiction by Rajesh Kumar 🕵️(author of 1500+ novels)
*Supernatural thrillers by Indra Soundar Rajan
*Horror by Indumathi
*Romance by Ramanichandran
*& lots more... from the all-time bestselling writers in the Tamil language

https://www.blaft.com/products/the-blaft-anthology-of-tamil-pulp-fiction-vol-1

The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction, Vol. 2 front cover (coconut skull girl)
The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction, Vol. 3 front cover (cyborg aruval girl)
The Aayakudi Murders front cover

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