Blaft Publications

Publisher info

Blaft Publications is an independent publishing house based in Chennai, India.

Our list includes bestselling Indian crime novels, experimental fiction, pulp art, and graphic novels.

In the future, we plan to branch out into encyclopedias,
kitchen appliances and designer underwear.

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The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction, Volume 3
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 127,690. Language: English. Published: August 3, 2023 by Blaft Publications. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Anthologies » General
From the sewers of small-town Tamil Nadu to the drug dens of Khajuraho...From the dance bars of Hyderabad to the exoplanets of Gliese 581...The doyens of Tamil Pulp Fiction bring you SIX short novels of...LOVE...CRIME... and INTERSTELLAR TERROR!
Doctor Dread
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 51,640. Language: English. Published: August 3, 2023 by Blaft Publications. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
The wealthy widow Begum Irshad is being blackmailed by a mysterious foreigner. Crime reporter and freelance investigator Anwar is hired to go undercover and find out who he is. Meanwhile, Captain Hameed and Colonel Faridi are trying to figure out why a mentally deranged man who thinks he’s an angel is being kept imprisoned in a five-story building...
The Laughing Corpse
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 32,580. Language: English. Published: August 3, 2023 by Blaft Publications. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
The beautiful Saeeda Rahman, a typist at the firm of James & Bartley, learns that her long-lost uncle has died in Jamaica and named her as the sole inheritor of his huge estate. Suddenly all the city’s richest young men are competing for her attention. But when she’s kidnapped during a scuffle at a popular restaurant, it’s up to Colonel Faridi and Captain Hameed to find out who’s responsible...
Smokewater
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 31,520. Language: English. Published: August 3, 2023 by Blaft Publications. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
Prominent industrialist Sir Fayyaz Ahmad disappears en route to his vacation home, and returns several days later in a strange delusional state. His granddaughter, the young and beautiful Shakila, approaches Colonel Faridi and Captain Hameed for help. The investigation leads the two detectives through the corrupt, twisted world of the super-rich...
Poisoned Arrow
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 30,140. Language: English. Published: August 3, 2023 by Blaft Publications. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
In an unnamed city somewhere in Hindustan, a man is killed by a poisoned arrow outside a popular nightclub. The subsequent investigation, led by the intrepid Colonel Faridi and his assistant, Captain Hameed, opens up a shadowy underworld network of pimps, drug dealers, and foreign spies.
Where Are You Going, You Monkeys?
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 84,020. Language: English. Published: August 2, 2023 by Blaft Publications. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
"Where Are You Going, You Monkeys?" is a collection of the weirdest and wildest tales from the black-soil region around Kovilpatti, Tamil Nadu, India. This book contains a gallery of jealous husbands and conniving goddesses, pious sparrows and randy mice, jewel-crazy girl ghosts and angry star demons, as well as a chapter of "naughty & dirty" folktales!
How to Love Mathematical Objects
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 4,170. Language: English. Published: August 2, 2023 by Blaft Publications. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
"How to Love Mathematical Objects" is the third chapbook in Blaft's "Monographs on Cryptodiversity and Decoherence" series. Some concepts you will encounter here: Draw a line segment. Name one end Buttercup and the other Yes-In-Deedy. Draw another line segment. Draw it anywhere. Take the first line segment to a queer poetry reading or an exhibition of straight art...
The Lucy Temerlin Institute for Broken Shapeshifters Guide to Starving Boys
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 3,290. Language: English. Published: August 2, 2023 by Blaft Publications. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Literature » Literary
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.
Killer Echinoderms in Indian History
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 7,640. Language: English. Published: August 2, 2023 by Blaft Publications. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Military
The first in the "Blaft Monographs on Cryptodiversity and Decoherence" chapbook series. From the world's leading researcher in military echinodermology comes a short treatise about malevolent marine invertebrates and their diverse attempts at attacking and/or infiltrating Indian civilization.
Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 35,310. Language: English. Published: July 31, 2023 by Blaft Publications. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
A centipede in a shoe, revelations in a shoebox, nosebleeds, exploding women, and a dead mouse named Miraculous populate this collection of thirty-five short stories from one of India's most original writers.
Things We Found During the Autopsy
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 53,090. Language: English. Published: July 31, 2023 by Blaft Publications. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
"Things We Found During the Autopsy" a collection of short fiction featuring a dizzying array of apocalyptic visions and fractured childhood memories. These stories contain the following: a dragon; angels; Indian culture; one Christmas story for children; no Indian culture whatsoever; men; poor people; voluntarily homeless youths; women; drugs; sex; Indian dads in cold foreign countries; vomit...
The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction, Volume 1
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 107,730. Language: English. Published: July 28, 2023 by Blaft Publications. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Mystery, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
Mad scientists! Desperate housewives! Murderous robots! Scandalous starlets! Sordid, drug-fueled love affairs! This anthology features seventeen stories by ten best-selling authors of Tamil crime, romance, science fiction, and detective stories.
Samudra Rani and the MAA-LEEs of Project Poonga
Price: $2.00 USD. Words: 1,290. Language: English. Published: July 28, 2023 by Blaft Publications. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Graphic novels & comics » Science fiction
In this illustrated mini-book, Avakkai & Chukka explore the history of the stranded mechanical gardeners and the mysterious communiqués they have sent to Samudra Rani, the 25th century's most popular pop star and revolutionary.
The Aayakudi Murders
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 52,990. Language: English. Published: July 26, 2023 by Blaft Publications. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Horror » Occult
When intrepid young journalist Rajendran 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.
Portalpettai
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 1,120. Language: English. Published: July 26, 2023 by Blaft Publications. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Graphic novels & comics » Science fiction
Portalpettai is an illustrated mini-book by Avakkai and Chukka about an interdimensional portal which opens at a women's college in Uthiramerur, Tamil Nadu, India. This is 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 matter, old Tamil film music, and the arcane secrets of mushrooms.
Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Home
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 37,270. Language: English. Published: July 25, 2023 by Blaft Publications. Categories: Fiction » Romance » General, Fiction » Women's fiction » General
"Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Home" is an Islamic soap opera complete with polygamous households, virtuous women, scheming harlots, and black magic. It's the first full-length novel by a woman ever translated from Hausa to English. And it's quite unlike anything you've ever read before.
Brown Boy
Price: $2.50 USD. Words: 14,900. Language: English. Published: July 25, 2023 by Blaft Publications. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General
"Brown Boy" is a short, spine-chilling monster story set in the foothills of Sikkim.
Conversations Regarding the Fatalistic of the Common Man
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 32,820. Language: English. Published: July 25, 2023 by Blaft Publications. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
Conversations Regarding the Fatalistic Outlook of the Common Man is a collection of 40 dialogues that melds the classical philosophical tradition of Plato and Socrates with the anarchic freedom of a mid-1990s chat room, and tops it all off with a dash of Senthil-Goundamani comedy. Not really, but anyway.
Mizo Myths
Price: $4.95 USD. Words: 35,420. Language: English. Published: July 24, 2023 by Blaft Publications. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Children’s books » Fairy Tales & Folklore / Country & Ethnic
Fifteen timeless tales of supernatural romance and adventure from the folklore of Mizoram, in the highlands of Northeast India.

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