Blaft Publications
@blaft.bsky.social
An independent publishing house based in Chennai, India. Indian pulp novels in translation, ghostlore, graphic novels, street signs, weird stories, & picture books about young women in love with gruesome monsters.
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Blaft Publications
@blaft.bsky.social
· Sep 4
Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales
Seven Indian authors. Seven stories of the eerie, the gruesome, the demonic, and the melty.
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Ever watched a girl you barely know get eaten alive by murder hornets in the mess hall? Ever spoken to a dead guy who came home to tell you about the demon who killed him?
Pre-order BANDIGOAT
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Pre-order BANDIGOAT
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This is an excellent collection of stories! @blaftrakesh.bsky.social @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This is an excellent collection of stories! @blaftrakesh.bsky.social @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social
All sold! Thanks for giving these Ghosts a home!
Received a return box from a book fair 2 years ago with ~12 copies of "Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India" that have slightly banged up covers. Nothing wrong with insides.
Selling em on the Blaft site for ₹300 (70% discount)! India only. Use code BATTLESCARREDGHOSTS at checkout.
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Selling em on the Blaft site for ₹300 (70% discount)! India only. Use code BATTLESCARREDGHOSTS at checkout.
www.blaft.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
All sold! Thanks for giving these Ghosts a home!
Kicked to have BANDIGOAT: A COLLECTION OF STRANGE & HORRIBLE TALES be a part of "The Garden"'s first Book Box. Includes creature cards, ceramic eye, field notebook, and more
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November 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Kicked to have BANDIGOAT: A COLLECTION OF STRANGE & HORRIBLE TALES be a part of "The Garden"'s first Book Box. Includes creature cards, ceramic eye, field notebook, and more
discoverthe.garden/products/oct...
discoverthe.garden/products/oct...
4 left! Order quick!
Received a return box from a book fair 2 years ago with ~12 copies of "Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India" that have slightly banged up covers. Nothing wrong with insides.
Selling em on the Blaft site for ₹300 (70% discount)! India only. Use code BATTLESCARREDGHOSTS at checkout.
www.blaft.com
Selling em on the Blaft site for ₹300 (70% discount)! India only. Use code BATTLESCARREDGHOSTS at checkout.
www.blaft.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
4 left! Order quick!
Spend ₹2000 or more in our webstore and get a free tote bag of your choice!
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November 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Spend ₹2000 or more in our webstore and get a free tote bag of your choice!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
www.blaft.com/collections/...
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Blaft latest releases and zines are back on the shelves at IDIOM BOOK SELLERS in Fort Kochi, Kerala!
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Blaft latest releases and zines are back on the shelves at IDIOM BOOK SELLERS in Fort Kochi, Kerala!
CALLING ALL CACTOPHILES: Kaimaurundai's new zine, ASTEROID SUCCULENTIOUS, is now available in our webstore.
Experience an off-world xeriscape filled with gentle robots living in harmony with nature
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Experience an off-world xeriscape filled with gentle robots living in harmony with nature
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November 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
CALLING ALL CACTOPHILES: Kaimaurundai's new zine, ASTEROID SUCCULENTIOUS, is now available in our webstore.
Experience an off-world xeriscape filled with gentle robots living in harmony with nature
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Experience an off-world xeriscape filled with gentle robots living in harmony with nature
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Ebooks available! We have a new weird horror anthology! Speculative fiction against the caste system! Tamil & Gujarati pulp fiction in translation! Lots more!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
www.blaft.com/collections/...
November 8, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Ebooks available! We have a new weird horror anthology! Speculative fiction against the caste system! Tamil & Gujarati pulp fiction in translation! Lots more!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
www.blaft.com/collections/...
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Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
Amazon has launched a new AI-driven translation service, Kindle Translate, for Kindle Direct Publishing authors 👇 #BookSky
Amazon launches AI translation service for indie authors
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November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
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It'll be treacherous, but fun
a blurred image of a muddy surface with a tree branch in the background
Alt: a blurred image of an alligator sliding through mud, with a tree branch in the background
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November 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It'll be treacherous, but fun
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October 2025 reads
Above is everything I finished reading in October! And here's what I thought was particularly or pretty good: Forfeiture x JP Nebra The Smell of Rain x Libby Young The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF (took me long enough!) An Unbreakable World x Ren Hutchings Who Will You Save? x…
Above is everything I finished reading in October! And here's what I thought was particularly or pretty good: Forfeiture x JP Nebra The Smell of Rain x Libby Young The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF (took me long enough!) An Unbreakable World x Ren Hutchings Who Will You Save? x…
October 2025 reads
Above is everything I finished reading in October! And here's what I thought was particularly or pretty good: Forfeiture x JP Nebra The Smell of Rain x Libby Young The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF (took me long enough!) An Unbreakable World x Ren Hutchings Who Will You Save? x Gareth L. Powell Tall is Her Body x Robert de la Chevotière Racebook x Tochi Onyebuchi The Inner Life of Mrs Dalloway x Edward Mendelson The rest were interesting too.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
October 2025 reads
Above is everything I finished reading in October! And here's what I thought was particularly or pretty good: Forfeiture x JP Nebra The Smell of Rain x Libby Young The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF (took me long enough!) An Unbreakable World x Ren Hutchings Who Will You Save? x…
Above is everything I finished reading in October! And here's what I thought was particularly or pretty good: Forfeiture x JP Nebra The Smell of Rain x Libby Young The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF (took me long enough!) An Unbreakable World x Ren Hutchings Who Will You Save? x…
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A Megha story is always full of gorgeous language and surprises that will make your head spin and the story impossible to forget ❤️
"Salt Slough" is a story folded into an academic paper trapped into another story by the paper’s footnotes. It is a sentient lagoon. It is a researcher who sees beneath what their eyes show them. Not entirely by choice. Things bloom. Sometimes everywhere.
Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales
Out now! edited by Rakesh Khanna 144 pages. 8.25" x 5.5". 300 g.Paperback ISBN: 9789380636788 Seven Indian authors. Seven stories of the eerie, the gruesome, the demonic, and the melty. Ever watched ...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:27 AM
A Megha story is always full of gorgeous language and surprises that will make your head spin and the story impossible to forget ❤️
Take a walk on some silty sand www.blaft.com/collections/...
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Take a walk on some silty sand www.blaft.com/collections/...
Marathi newspapers are hard to find here in Chennai lol
November 7, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Marathi newspapers are hard to find here in Chennai lol
All our local Chennai Post Offices have had their software down for the last 3 days! Please excuse shipment delays!
(How widespread is this? It's not in the news... Is it just our neighbourhoods?)
(How widespread is this? It's not in the news... Is it just our neighbourhoods?)
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
All our local Chennai Post Offices have had their software down for the last 3 days! Please excuse shipment delays!
(How widespread is this? It's not in the news... Is it just our neighbourhoods?)
(How widespread is this? It's not in the news... Is it just our neighbourhoods?)
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I’m so out of it, my self-promo has plunged into a ravine of nothingness, even while I had a brand new story come out exactly two weeks ago in @blaft.bsky.social's deliciously bizarre new anthology, Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales! So let me tell you a little bit about it. 👁️🌿
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I’m so out of it, my self-promo has plunged into a ravine of nothingness, even while I had a brand new story come out exactly two weeks ago in @blaft.bsky.social's deliciously bizarre new anthology, Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales! So let me tell you a little bit about it. 👁️🌿
Planning to add some new zine artists to our OTHER INDIE STUFF page today and tomorrow.
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Come spend money in our shop so we can buy more stock!
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Come spend money in our shop so we can buy more stock!
Other Indie Stuff!
Blaft is now selling and distributing titles by other excellent Indian small publishers, comics artists, and zine makers--including Bakarmax, Halahala Comics, Studio Ekonte, and Larchtongue. Down with...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Planning to add some new zine artists to our OTHER INDIE STUFF page today and tomorrow.
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Come spend money in our shop so we can buy more stock!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Come spend money in our shop so we can buy more stock!
Kuzhali Manickavel's second collection has gone for reprint.
Read one of her flash pieces. Let yourself be metagrobolised by her titles.
Watch the book trailer (featuring record scratching / razor blades / superdance).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjaj...
Order a copy!
www.blaft.com/products/thi...
Read one of her flash pieces. Let yourself be metagrobolised by her titles.
Watch the book trailer (featuring record scratching / razor blades / superdance).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjaj...
Order a copy!
www.blaft.com/products/thi...
November 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Kuzhali Manickavel's second collection has gone for reprint.
Read one of her flash pieces. Let yourself be metagrobolised by her titles.
Watch the book trailer (featuring record scratching / razor blades / superdance).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjaj...
Order a copy!
www.blaft.com/products/thi...
Read one of her flash pieces. Let yourself be metagrobolised by her titles.
Watch the book trailer (featuring record scratching / razor blades / superdance).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjaj...
Order a copy!
www.blaft.com/products/thi...
Kindle bestsellers so far this month are BANDIGOAT and GUJARATI PULP FICTION
Notice: You don't have to pay the Beastly Bezorg to read our books! Buy MOBI, EPUB or PDF format ebooks from our website! The prices should be lower than Ama$on's! (Ping us if they're not!)
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Notice: You don't have to pay the Beastly Bezorg to read our books! Buy MOBI, EPUB or PDF format ebooks from our website! The prices should be lower than Ama$on's! (Ping us if they're not!)
www.blaft.com/collections/...
November 6, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Kindle bestsellers so far this month are BANDIGOAT and GUJARATI PULP FICTION
Notice: You don't have to pay the Beastly Bezorg to read our books! Buy MOBI, EPUB or PDF format ebooks from our website! The prices should be lower than Ama$on's! (Ping us if they're not!)
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Notice: You don't have to pay the Beastly Bezorg to read our books! Buy MOBI, EPUB or PDF format ebooks from our website! The prices should be lower than Ama$on's! (Ping us if they're not!)
www.blaft.com/collections/...
"Boochandi" is the Tamil word for boogeyman. The one in this story rides a giant kohl-black rooster and wears an interesting watch
An excerpt from Rashmi Ruth Devadasan's demonic boochandi story, THE LEGEND OF RANI GRACE, is up at Scroll:
scroll.in/article/1086...
Read the rest in BANDIGOAT: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales
www.blaft.com/collections/...
scroll.in/article/1086...
Read the rest in BANDIGOAT: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Strange tales: A woman’s lover is abducted by a bogeyman riding atop a gigantic rooster
An excerpt from ‘Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange and Horrible Tales’, edited by Rakesh Khanna.
scroll.in
November 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"Boochandi" is the Tamil word for boogeyman. The one in this story rides a giant kohl-black rooster and wears an interesting watch
Just found this review of @vishwambhari.bsky.social's anthology on GoodReads. Adding the last quote to our website product page!
Dive into The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction: www.blaft.com/products/the...
Dive into The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction: www.blaft.com/products/the...
November 3, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Just found this review of @vishwambhari.bsky.social's anthology on GoodReads. Adding the last quote to our website product page!
Dive into The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction: www.blaft.com/products/the...
Dive into The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction: www.blaft.com/products/the...
An excerpt from Rashmi Ruth Devadasan's demonic boochandi story, THE LEGEND OF RANI GRACE, is up at Scroll:
scroll.in/article/1086...
Read the rest in BANDIGOAT: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales
www.blaft.com/collections/...
scroll.in/article/1086...
Read the rest in BANDIGOAT: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Strange tales: A woman’s lover is abducted by a bogeyman riding atop a gigantic rooster
An excerpt from ‘Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange and Horrible Tales’, edited by Rakesh Khanna.
scroll.in
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
An excerpt from Rashmi Ruth Devadasan's demonic boochandi story, THE LEGEND OF RANI GRACE, is up at Scroll:
scroll.in/article/1086...
Read the rest in BANDIGOAT: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales
www.blaft.com/collections/...
scroll.in/article/1086...
Read the rest in BANDIGOAT: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Meditations on the ancient conflict between Buddhism and Hinduism, the strictures of tradition, casteism in the classical arts, & the quest for excellence... served up with a dose of symbolic magic. From the founder of Maharashtra's Secular Art Movement
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www.blaft.com/products/the...
The Seekers
Out now! by Gautamiputra Kambletranslated from the Marathi by Sirus J. Libeiro 186 pages. 8.25" x 5.5". 275 g.ISBN: 978-93-80636-85-6 The seekers in these stories travel through worlds both ancient ...
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November 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Meditations on the ancient conflict between Buddhism and Hinduism, the strictures of tradition, casteism in the classical arts, & the quest for excellence... served up with a dose of symbolic magic. From the founder of Maharashtra's Secular Art Movement
www.blaft.com/products/the...
www.blaft.com/products/the...
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also got an anthology of gujarati pulp fiction and this as part of my kickstarter pledge; the author is a chicagoan
October 31, 2025 at 8:37 PM
also got an anthology of gujarati pulp fiction and this as part of my kickstarter pledge; the author is a chicagoan
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got a scary book for halloween
October 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
got a scary book for halloween