Y'all have not adequately appreciated how amazing vintage Gujarati pulp novel covers are
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Blaft Publications
@blaft@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06South Indian indie publishing house. Tamil pulp fiction, Urdu detective novels, & Nigerian soyayya in translation. Comics. Ladies with monster boyfriends. More.
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Our Tamil and Gujarati pulp fiction anthologies are full of local flavour, but they travel, as well... from seedy Mumbai dance bars to haunted Malaysian rubber plantations to the planet of the nitrogen-hungry Durphies
khōréō's Kickstarter is at 95% with three days to go, pitch in why dontcha
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/khoreo/khoreo-year-6?ref=project_bsky
Delisted all our ebooks from #Draft2Digital out of solidarity, after they imposed the much-maligned maintainance fee on small self-publisher accounts.
You can buy our ebooks on our website. It works out better for us and for our authors anyway.
Read more classic Indian pulp fiction in translation, you fiends!!
https://www.blaft.com/collections/new-arrivals/pulp-fiction
(Each anthology has a full colour gallery of vintage cover art)
(We ship worldwide and there are ebooks also)
(Vengeful goddesses, hard-boiled detectives, murderous robots, etc)
The planet Mars will be at aphelion in 66 days which means right now is the perfect time to buy a whole bunch of cool zines by Indian artists
RE: https://typo.social/@db/116419205847564833
Get your @matratype@typo.social zines right here! https://www.blaft.com/collections/other-indie-stuff-1/matratype
And her big beautiful street lettering book too!
https://www.blaft.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/india-street-lettering
We want to make more books! To do that we need to hire another person to pack boxes and table at events and design graphics and print zines and come up with better social media posts! For that we need more money! Buy stuff from us pleez!
https://www.blaft.com/collections/new-arrivals
Also, South Chennai? DM for jobs
Ebooks! We gots em! Weird horror anthologies! Supernatural monsterlove folklore from Northeast India! Anti-caste speculative fiction! Street art & typographic gloriousness! Get some South Asia on your e-reader!
THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SPECULATIVE FICTION includes stories by
*BAMA (translated from Tamil by Meena Kandasamy)
*GOGU SHYAMALA (translated from Telugu by Divya Kalavala)
*SAHEJ RAHAL
*RAHEE PUNYASHLOKA
*MIMI MONDAL
...and MANY MORE
https://www.blaft.com/products/the-blaft-book-of-anti-caste-sf
We've had a terrible time getting our books onto store shelves in Gujarat. Finally, thanks to Kavyakumar of BOOKATICO, Blaft titles are available in Vadodara!
Including GUJARATI PULP FICTION, selected and translated by Vishwambhari S Parmar!
'ML Krishnan’s “Salt Slough” is the shortest story and stands out for its formal experimentation... it tells the enchanting tale of unusual deaths, numinous ecologies, and their mad secrets that punctuate the report with increasingly unreasonable footnotes.'
Buy the book! https://www.blaft.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/bandigoat-a-collection-of-strange-horrible-tales
Ghosts! Shoeracks! Gender-neutral pronouns! Bollywood movie tropes! Babies raining from the sky! Banana cabinets! Hipster racism! More shoeracks!
https://www.blaft.com/products/conversations-regarding-the-fatalistic-outlook-of-the-common-man
There's a New Books Network podcast episode on "The Seekers" by Gautamiputra Kamble!
Jessica Zu, an intellectual historian and a scholar of Buddhist studies at the University of Southern California, interviews Sirus J Libeiro
https://newbooksnetwork.com/gautamiputra-kamble-the-seekers-blaft-publication-2025
From the Other Indie Stuff section of our webstore: Zines by Priyanka Paul a.k.a. Artwhoring!
https://www.blaft.com/collections/other-indie-stuff-1/priyanka-paul
"This is where this delicious anthology comes in: naming feelings that often seem unnameable... drawing the reader into a world that caste-oppressed people inhabit all their lives — yet one that mostly goes unnoticed, or is wilfully ignored.”
Moving in the web store today!
💥AN AUTOBIOGRAFLY by Fahad Faizal (published by Kokaachi)
💥BISCUIT TIME by Larchtongue
💥VÉRITÉ 01 from Studio Ekonte
💥ANTI-CASTE STICKER SET by Priyanka Paul
Browse our indie zine & comics collection!
Last few days of WOMEN IN HORROR MONTH --- pick up BANDIGOAT print or ebook for 20% off. (Just $4.25 US!)
7 strange & horrible tales by 7 Indian authors... including Rashmi Ruth Devadasan, Kuzhali Manickavel, M.L. Krishnan, Lungmying Lepcha, & Srividya Tadepalli
https://www.blaft.com/products/bandigoat-a-collection-of-strange-horrible-tales
We're still looking to improve this UX. If anyone wants to use Paypal to buy a collection of twisty-weird horror stories (or any of our other books) to help us test, it will be appreciated!
Ananya Dasguta reviews BANDIGOAT for Scroll!
Pick up a copy: 7 strange & horrible tales by 7 Indian writers
https://www.blaft.com/products/bandigoat-a-collection-of-strange-horrible-tales