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Kuzhali Manickavel's A COMPENDIUM OF SUPERNATURAL ENTITIES FOUND IN THE GOVERNMENT GIRLS HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL Earns a Starred Review from Publishers Weekly Ahead of October 6 Release The cult favourite writer's debut novel — published in India by Blaft Publications and internationally by Angry Robot — blends surreal horror with the sharp, unsettling wit her longtime readers know her for. Acclaimed Indian writer Kuzhali Manickavel's debut novel, A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School, will be released on October 6, published in India by Blaft and internationally by Angry Robot. Ahead of publication, the...

WOMEN WITH WEAPONS This is an open call for short fiction submissions for a planned anthology. Here are the guidelines:  Your story should be 1000-8000 words long, previously unpublished. YOUR STORY SHOULD PROMINENTLY FEATURE A WOMAN WIELDING A WEAPON.  *Or many weapons. Or many women, wielding many weapons.**Trans women are women.***Non-binary weapon wielders are also welcome. Your story must FAIL the REVERSE BECHDEL TEST. [What does this mean? See below.] Your story may be in any genre. It may be set in the past, present, or future. You can include sex. You can include violence. But we are not so...

We first met Jugal twenty years ago at a poetry reading in Chennai. He had a big smile and an easy ability to talk with everyone. Every now and then as we took our publishing baby steps, he would send us an email with words of encouragement. Two years ago, when he wrote to us to say hi, we told him we were working on an anthology of weird/horror tales. He sent us "Ice Cream Boy", his novelette about young people navigating life in a strange snowed-in future Delhi, and their titular friend with a body made of frozen dessert....

Down here on the coast at 13° north latitude, the days don't ever get too short, and "cold" is an unfamiliar concept. Nevertheless, what passes for the winter season is upon us!  And because we are slow to update the blog, we have lots of announcements. We released two new book-length titles in October!  The first: Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales. This isn't your typical horror anthology. Seven writers—Rashmi Ruth Devadasan, Srividya Tadepalli, M L Krishnan, Miriam Kumaradoss-Hohauser, Lungmying Lepcha, Jugal Mody, and Kuzhali Manickavel—have pooled their uncanny talents into one slim, vicious volume full of stray dogs,...

We're crowdfunding for Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales, an anthology of 7 horror/weird fiction stories by 7 Indian writers: Kuzhali Manickavel, Rashmi Ruth Devadasan, M. L. Krishnan, Jugal Mody, Lungmying Lepcha, Miriam Kumaradoss-Hohauser, and Srividya Tadepalli. The stories are set in the mountains of Sikkim, in the salt sloughs of the Tamil Nadu coast, and in a strange future Delhi where it never stops snowing and people spend their time getting drunk in igloos. We just hit our target! There are two days left to chip in! $5 ebooks and $6 print copies! There are t-shirts too, and other higher-tier...