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Releasing July 9! Available for pre-order from our website (print and ebook) and from the Kindle Store! Rajendran is a young journalist who works for a weekly magazine based in Chennai. When he first arrives in Aayakudi to investigate a curious tip about a ghost, the place seems like an ordinary, traditional farming village. Soon, though, Rajendran finds himself entangled in a head-spinning mystery involving ancient treasure, spirit possession, and a series of grisly killings. There's also the beautiful, troubled daughter of the village panchayat president... and the notorious evil sorcerer who wants her dead. About the author: Indra Soundar...

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NEW RELEASES from Kuzhali Manickavel and P. S. Nissim     We have two new releases out! By a strange confluence of cosmic forces, they both have "boys" in the title. But that's about all they have in common."The Lucy Temerlin Institute for Broken Shapeshifters Guide to Starving Boys: Their Salient Features, How to Find Them, How to Care for Them after They Die, and Four Considerations" is the second chapbook in Blaft's Monographs on Cryptodiversity and Decoherence series. Kuzhali Manickavel's guidebook offers valuable tips on how to disentangle Starving Boys from older infestations, how to prepare your box for a Starving Boy, and how...

A big January howdy and belated Happy Pongal! A few updates on what Blaft has been / will soon be up to:   New Minibook Release: Portalpettai by Avakkai and Chukka Portalpettai is an illustrated minibook about an interdimensional portal which opens at a women's college in Uthiramerur, Tamil Nadu. It's narrated by a former lecturer at the college who has been transformed into a floating jellyfish-like creature with a see-through head. It's a portrait of a diverse South Indian community and its resilience in the face of an alien life force intrusion. It also touches on the subjects of non-baryonic...

Vanakam!  Blaft has clocked eleven years since we started! Thanks for all the love, support, encouragement over the last decade! The last few years have been pretty quiet here. We (Rashmi & Rakesh) got busy being parents, and we've only brought out two titles since 2016 -- Cherrie Chhangte's Mizo Myths and Tamil Pulp Fiction 3. However! We have decided to grab 2019 firmly by its cloth-bound gold-foil-stamped front and back covers. We have a biriyani-patram-full of new & exciting books slated for release in 2019, including: a set of stories chronicling a zombie apocalypse in Chennai, a maths book about...