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Hi everyone! There are some exciting book events happening in the coming month.  The first is the Goa Book Fair and Children's Book Festival, where we will have a table. Hopefully it will not rain, but if it does, we will still be cheerful, like these ghosts. Meanwhile, 14400 kilometres away in California, we'll be attending the L.A. Zine Fest. The ghosts on this flyer are cheerful too! They just express it differently! In L.A. we'll have a special visitor -- Nabi H. Ali, who did the cover art for Gujarati Pulp Fiction and wrote an incredible story called "Melonhead"...

Happy New Year! And thanks to everyone who turned out for our Anti-Caste SF launch events on Dec 21 in Bangalore and Jan 5 in Delhi! We have another Delhi event on Jan 10 (this Friday) at JNU: We've also got an event in Ahmedabad on January 19 (the first ever Blaft event in Gujarat!)    As we announced on other social media channels, H. N. Golibar sadly passed away on Dec. 20, 2024. He was a fixture on the Gujarati fiction scene, the author of more than 85 thriller and horror novels, with an incredible 4-and-a-half-decade history of running the...

3 events in 3 cities!

A lot has happened since our last post. Some of the news is sad. We lost two people who were an important part of Blaft's publishing journey right from the very beginning. In September, Natesh Muthswamy passed away. He was an incredible artist with raucously weird ideas. He painted tigermen experiencing colourful epiphanies, wrote bizarre screeds about evolution and technology, and designed brilliant lighting for some excellent theatre plays. We fell in love particularly with his line drawings, like this one: When we launched Blaft in 2008, one of our first 3 books was a collection of these drawings, called when this key...

R.T. Samuel and I were talking Betals/Vetals today (bc two stories in the Anti-Caste SF collection reference the Vikram & Vetal story) and I was telling them how murky the origin of the Vetal myth is, like he probably started out as a tribal protector god from the Konkan coast who you worship by offering dirty footwear, but there's also a Betal temple in Kumaon and Mahavetal legends from Tibet & a lot of other crazy lore about these corpse-occupying bloodthirsty spirits. And then I thought, maybe it's time for a flash sale... 25% off this week on GHOSTS, MONSTERS,...