@blaft
An independent publishing house based in Chennai, India. Indian pulp novels in translation, ghostlore, anti-caste sf, graphic novels, street signs, weird stories, & picture books about young women in love with gruesome monsters. https://blaft.com
Stupid Guy Goes to India front cover
Priyanka Paul's "Jokes lol" zine
The Bandigoat
We tabled outside the Pondicherry University Literature Seminar event this week. Bestselling titles:
💥BANDIGOAT: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales
💥Priyanka Paul's JOKES LOL
💥Yukichi Yamamatsu's STUPID GUY GOES TO INDIA
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the monsters are sad you won't give them three hundred bucks. don't make monsters sad.
We've added a bunch of excellent zines to our OTHER INDIE STUFF page. Work by Pith.Bull, Prrrbutt, Prasanna Venkatesh, Malvika Raj, Priyanka Paul, Kokaachi & more! 0% billionaire-produced art! Hook up your friends
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Our* gah
Kumari and a creature with many eyes and tentacles sit lovingly in a park. She's holding a slate and teaching it how to write
We're at 50 backers and just $259 left to reach out target!
Help us reprint Kumari Loves a Monster!
(You can donate some copies to the Free Libraries Network while you're at it!)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...
Thanks for the order!
Art Life signboard from Kolkata - a graphic design / xerox offset shop
India Street Lettering by Pooja Saxena
Live your best ART LIFE!
Pooja Saxena's INDIA STREET LETTERING is full of inspiration!
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Every reskeet helps more weird art to exist in the world!
We're one top-tier backer away from reaching our target!
C'mon folks, you know you want the custom Shyam portrait+monster painting
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this is an interview i did with davin malasarn. i did it almost immediately after getting discharged from the hospital for some mysterious, gnarly lung infection
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We're one top-tier backer away from reaching our target!
C'mon folks, you know you want the custom Shyam portrait+monster painting
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Storybundle Ebooks! You can read details at the link!
Kumari Loves a Monster -- pink cover with title in English and Tamil
37 hours left for the In Translation storybundle!
storybundle.com/translation
10 days left for the Kumari Loves a Monster Kickstarter! (and just $408 to go!)
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Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales
March is #WomenInHorror Month and we're offering 20% off on:
* BANDIGOAT: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales *
Featuring stories by 6 women authors + 1 by the late great & sorely missed Jugal Mody (who did some amazing reels in drag, just saying)
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🗣️MONSTER 🗣️FICTION 🗣️
please give some money to the monsters
Want to explore storytelling written from within different cultures, not filtered through outsiders, and strengthen GV Lingua’s global translation community at the same time? 3 days left to get the In Translation StoryBundle!
storybundle.com/translation
Just came across ANOTHER blatant AI ripoff of one of our book covers.
Chasing this stuff is not fun, guys. Please make original art. Don't plagiarise. People will like you better. The art will BE better.
The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF
The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction Vol. 3 featuring cover art by Shyam
Bandigoat - A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales
There are some great books available as add-ons, too, featuring work by Rashmi and/or Shyam...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...
The Kumari Loves a Monster reprint is a Kickstarter "Project We Love"
Help us get to the finish line!
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Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales, edited by @blaftrakesh.bsky.social (Blaft Publications)
Indian folk horror with bite, humor, these stories have everything. They all felt commissioned for this project even though several are reprints! Very strong editorial vision 😮
How would you like to read 12 books from across the Global Majority—some newly translated just for this project—while contributing to Global Voices? 7 days left to get the In Translation StoryBundle for GV Lingua!
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storybundle.com/translation
Let’s go! ⚡
Lots of amazing stuff in the bundle! 12 ebooks for $25!
storybundle.com/translation
Cover to The Aayakudi Murders by Indra Soundar Rajan translated by Nirmal Rajagopalan, several ominously peering faces through an abstract background in warm and black tones.
From Tamil, The Aayakudi Murders by Indra Soundar Rajan translated by Nirmal Rajagopalan #India
"Pulp fiction at its best." – New Asian Writing
➡️ storybundle.com/translation 📲
Cover to Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Home by Balaraba Ramat Yakubu translated by Aliyu Kamal, a figure peering outside through a backlit window.
Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Home by Balaraba Ramat Yakubu translated by Aliyu Kamal #Nigeria
"Utterly addictive." – Nnedi Okorafor
➡️ storybundle.com/translation 📲
Shows 12 sunshines over a map of the Earth, in the Americas, Western Europe, SWANA, Africa, and Asia.
Have you seen the books included in the In Translation Storybundle? @storybundle.bsky.social #BookSky #Translation #Ebooks #BookBundle #StoryBundle
(We think they're super, well, yes we do - our editor curated them.)
DON’T HAVE SEX WITH THE UNDEAD FREDDIE
Aazaad Band trolly, Lucknow (c) Pooja Saxena
"Daniel" truck board, Kerala (c) Pooja Saxena
India Street Lettering: A Journey Through Typographic Craft & Culture
Calling all graphic design & typography buffs in UK/Europe!
Our first shipment sold out quick... but Pooja Saxena's INDIA STREET LETTERING is back in stock at BLAG
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Our reprint crowdfunding drive is at 70%! 16 days left!
We know you're all eyeing that top-tier custom Shyam painting of yourself with a monster lover
(He could probably do a couple + a monster third too, if you're freaky like that)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...
NON-FICTION Quote I did expect the story to go another way because I thought it was going to be like any other undead story. But I am very happy to see that it wasn’t. Frankly, they are a nice change from the usual OTR shows which, to be honest, are often on the sloppy side. end Quote Stories From The Radio by Kuzhali Manickavel 23 February 2026 Strange Horizons
Stories From The Radio
by Kuzhali Manickavel @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social
"I did expect the story to go another way because I thought it was going to be like any other undead story. But I am very happy to see that it wasn’t."
Link ⬇️
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