Blaft Publications

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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.

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Blaft Publications@blaft· 4d

Yayy!

Kumari does karate with her half-robot half-spiky-monster lover in a stadium

Blaft Publications@blaft· 4d

Browse our collection of Tamil pulp fiction in English translation, Gujarati pulp fiction in English translation, ghost encyclopedias, folklore, graphic novels, monsterlove picture books, & more www.blaft.com/collections/...

The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction selected & translated by Vishwambhari S Parmar

The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction Vol. 2 selected & translated by Pritham K Chakravarthy

Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India by J Furcifer Bhairav & Rakesh Khanna

First Night: A woman in bridal jewellery and red sari gives a glass of haldi doodh to her green spiky toothy groom

Blaft Publications@blaft· 7d

Vanakkam! Does anyone know any BRYOLOGISTS? We are looking for someone who has researched moss species in South India (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh) to collaborate with us on a small project. Kindly DM. Mikka Nandri!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntrichia_ruralis#/media/File:Drehzahnmoos_Tortula_ruralis.jpg This is a cosmopolitan moss, picture not from South India, bc I can't find any South Indian mosses on Wikimedia

Blaft Publications@blaft· 10d

UK design enthusiasts! INDIA STREET LETTERING by Pooja Saxena is back in stock at BLAG!! shop.bl.ag/products/ind...

A spread from INDIA STREET LETTERING of neon cinema signs: Sangeet, Elite, Imperial

A spread from INDIA STREET LETTERING of Kolkata bus signage: 24-24A-24B, 71 Salt Lake, etc

Hotel Hindustan (c) Pooja Saxena from India Street Lettering

Blaft Publications@blaft· 13d

These were released many years ago now, but since we still get asked: Yes, these books are in English! They contain stories and novellas *translated* from Tamil and Gujarati pulp magazines! They also contain colour plates of original cover art! www.blaft.com/collections/...

Tamil Pulp Fiction, selected and translated by Priham K Chakravarthy

Blaft Publications@blaft· 13d

THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF available in Sydney from Magenta House! Super pics on their site of the books with geodes shop.magentahouse.com.au/products/the...

THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF open to Prachi Singh's story "Sand, Stone, Shatter". There are two geodes placed on the book holding it open

THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF open to Gautam Vegda's "Supernova" and "The Extinction"

Blaft Publications@blaft· 16d

One of Blaft's co-founders is slightly obsessed with drawing triangular-prism- and sarcophagus-shaped botanist robots on an asteroid covered with space cacti Perhaps you will also enjoy this art www.blaft.com/collections/...

Some prism sample collectors among cactuses on a red field.

A sarcophagus-shaped sample collector among cactuses.

A rare meteorological phenomenon! A shower of carbon doughnut holes and sulfur pearl slime! Whee! There goes a sarcophagus sample collector

Blaft Publications@blaft· 16d

Gujarati covers of H N Golibar and Kanu Bhagdev novels by illustrator G Sandhwani (6/7)

Gujarati Novel "Janamtip" (Life Sentence) by H N Golibar

"Mission" by Kanu Bhagdev, front cover by G Sandhwani. Shows a lady and a guy with a gun, and a colourful staircase

"Nafrat" (Hatred) by Kanu Bhagdev, cover by G Sandhwani. A lady in a yellow top holds her hair. Behind her, a man in an orange suit is discovering a dead guy in a red suit

Padkaar ("Challenge") by Kanu Bhagdev. Cover by G Sandhwani. A girl's face is a gun, there's an eye and a candle and some bullets

Blaft Publications@blaft· 16d

Marathi covers of the pulp magazine "Menaka" (artists unknown) (5/7)

Menaka magazine cover -- A girl in a short skirt holds a bottle of liquor festively

An issue of Menaka. A couple posed sexily on a rock near some water. I think the lady is supposed to be the Apsara Menaka and the guy might be Vishwakarma?

Menaka Cover with a black and white photo of an actress (I should probably know her name but I don't) posing seductively in front of a splash of radiating pink, blue, and purple lines

A cover of Menaka Magazine showing a lady in a sari with the night sky behind her, turning to look towards the viewer, but slightly above us

Blaft Publications@blaft· 16d

Collage covers for Telugu novels by Madhubabu (4/7)

Kalikalayam (Age of Kali), Nisacharudu (Night Crawler), and Marakatha Manjusha (Emerald Treasure) by Madhubabu. Covers are collages of clip art of angry goddesses, hot ladies in skimpy clothes, guys on horses with swords, etc.

Blaft Publications@blaft· 16d

Hindi novels, front covers by Mustajab Ahmad Siddiqui a.k.a. Shelle (3/7)

Nasib Mera Dushman by Ved Prakash Sharma "Destiny Is My Enemy". A woman is sitting looking stressed out. Behind her is a close up on another stressed-out looking woman with concentric pink circles emanating from the center of her forehead

Bhuvan aur Samudra ki Rani "Bhuvan and the Queen of the Sea" by Om Prakash Sharma. A man who looks a lot like the actor Govinda holds a gun. A lady is dead on the ground. Another lady has just been shot and has a big bloody hole in her chest. Her arms are raised in a cinematic death pose

"Bhagwan Number Do" -- God #2 by Ved Prakash Sharma. A guy holding a trishul (trident) dripping blood steps out of some flames. He's got eyes all over his body. There's a stressed out looking woman in the foreground wearing a yellow sari and yellow-green bangles

"Jai Hind" by Ved Prakash Sharma. A lady stands seductively in some flames holding a bottle of Vat 69. Another guy is jumping through the flames holding a suitcase. Above them, a gun is firing

Blaft Publications@blaft· 16d

Tamil books by Suba and Pattukkottai Prabakar, covers by K. V. Anand (2/7)

An issue of Ungal Junior by Pattukkottai Prabakar. A man tries to stab a lady in bridal? dancer? outfit & jewellery with a kuthuvilakku lamp

An issue of Ungal Junior by Pattukkottai Prabakar. "Miss India Missing". A girl is wearing a skimpy dress made out of magazine cut outs, holding an assault rifle

An Ungal Junior issue by Pattukkottai Prabakar. A man with a bandaged head tries to stab a nurse

An issue of Super Novel by Suba. "Manitha Vettai". In three frames, each one a torn-out scrap of photograph, we see a man coming up behind another man in shallow, muddy water holding an arival. Then he slashes him. Then he runs off leaving his dead body

Blaft Publications@blaft· 16d

We did a talk on book covers yesterday with a slideshow... while we have the folder open... Here is a bunch of vintage Indian pulp fiction art 🧵 (1/7) Urdu books by Ibne Safi (1956-1980), artist unknown

An Ibne Safi novel. Cover artist unknown. A lady looking surprised. A bat obscures her eyes

Cover of an Ibne Safi novel. A stressed out looking woman at top-left. A man flying head over heals at right. Another man at left... there seem to be some steel girders

Cover of an Ibne Safi novel. Close up of chain links. In one chain link we see a man running through scrubland... in the bottom chain link we see a woman running, carrying her clothes

Ibne Safi novel cover. A guy holding a rifle is falling into a lake at night. The silhouettes of two figures wearing hats are seen on a cliff above him. At top right, there's an woman's face giving a terrified expression

Blaft Publications@blaft· 21d

BANDIGOAT: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales contains 7 stories by Rashmi Ruth Devadasan Kuzhali Manickavel M. L. Krishnan Lungmying Lepcha Miriam Kumaradoss-Hohauser Srividya Tadepalli and the late, great, eternally wacko, sorely missed Jugal Mody www.blaft.com/collections/...

Blaft Publications@blaft· 22d

Chennai! This Saturday we're talking Indian pulp cover art at Dakshinachitra with Shyam! We'll be showing off our collection of vintage Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Hindi & Urdu novel covers

Front & Back Cover of "Yavana Rani Part 2" by Chandilyan. Cover art by Latha. The front has the fair-haired, blue-eyed Greek queen in the foreground, with the Tamil hero standing outside a palace looking back at her. On the back cover there are two Indian lovers, with an inset images of a chariot race, a chase, a swordfight, etc.

A flyer for the "Wrapper" event -- covers from Indian-language pulp fiction. With Rashmi & Rakesh of Blaft Publications and Shyam
25 July 2026 -- 4:30 pm Varija Art Gallery, Dakshinachitra

An H N Golibar novel cover: "Saapsidi", artwork by G. Sandhwani. Shows a woman's face split in two: the left side wears shades and a modern-looking earring, the right side shows without sunglasses and a gold hoop. Both sides have very red lips, but on the left sdide, they are slightly parted. In the center, bewteen the two halves of the face, is a guy brandishing a knife. At the bottom beneath the title there's a large building, and in the left corner is a clean-cut looking gent in a collared shirt looking appraisingly at the viewer.

Blaft Publications@blaft· 26d

RIVER OF STORIES by Orijit Sen (India's first graphic novel) MOONWARD by Appupen (how Mahanana came to rule the land of Halahala) STUPID GUY GOES TO INDIA by Yukichi Yamamatsu (an autobiographical Delhi manga) THE ARTHASHASTRA, BOOK 13 by Kautilya (with dinos&worms) www.blaft.com/collections/...

River of Stories by Orijit Sen. A Bhilala bard sings in front of a map of the Narmada River

Stupid Guy Goes to India by Yukichi Yamamatsu. The author is screaming on the cover.

The Arthashastra of Kautilya, retold in simple modern English by an assortment of copyright-free and/or stock clip art characters including worms, dinosaurs, random monsters, and stick figures. Book XIII Chapter 1. Sowing the Seeds of Dissension

Moonward by Appupen. Front cover has a tesselation of green teardops. In each teerdrop are a pair of parted lips, and within each pair of lips is an eyeball

Blaft Publications@blaft· Jul 9

Today at noon US Eastern Standard Time! (10:30 pm in India) India Street Lettering: Building Missing Archives a talk with Pooja Saxena 1 registrant will win a copy of INDIA STREET LETTERING tdc.org/event/india-...

F A Baldiwala -- a colourful Gujarati / English painted signboard with extruded font

A stack of copies of India Street Lettering

Blaft Publications@blaft· Jul 5

We're sold out of most of the Kokaachi comics... but we still have a few copies of: UVEP by Pratheek Thomas & Rajeev Eipe 405 by Murali Govindan, Krithika Manohar & Vishnu M. Nair Come spend some money in our Other Indie Stuff section so we can get more stock! www.blaft.com/collections/...

Blaft Publications@blaft· Jul 5

New upcoming @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social zine sneak preview

Pictured: A man wearing pants -- you can only see him from waist to calf.
There are some flowers in the foreground.
In a text box, it says:
i bought these pants in the
back alley of a small town in
a small country you haven’t
even heard of. the man who
sold them to me had baby
goblins kept in tiny bottles
in the back of his shop. i
mean that’s what he said
they were. he sold me these
pants because he said i
looked like the kind of man
who could handle them. they
are supernatural pants.
obviously I don’t wear them
everywhere.
some people are not ready
for them. others just
wouldn’t understand.

Blaft Publications@blaft· Jul 3

Ok is this the singularity now, have we gone through, is that what this is

Instagram screenshot showing a battered book called "The Blaft Anthology of Punjabi Pulp Fiction". The cover is a barely modified version of The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction, except the guntoting lady on the cover is wearing a kurti instead of a sari.

Blaft Publications@blaft· Jul 3

Srividya Tadepalli, whose "Funeral for a Demon" is featured in our weird horror collection BANDIGOAT, is speaking on Sunday at the Mysuru Literature festival: www.mysuruliteraturefestival.com/speakers/sri...

Blaft Publications@blaft· Jul 3

"Manickavel's Starving Boys... infest whole regions, have (literally) delicious delicate skin, and count among their enemies 'people who are active on social media'" M.L. Clark's 2019 review in Strange Horizons strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... The Zine: www.blaft.com/products/the...

"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.

Blaft Publications@blaft· Jul 2

EBOOKS #EBOOKS EBOOKS 👉Weird horror 👉Pulp fiction in translation from Gujarat 👉Creation myths and monster folklore from Mizoram 👉Phule-Ambedkarite speculative-philosophical fiction 👉& more! www.blaft.com/collections/... #BookSky

Mizo Myths by Cherrie Lalnunziri Chhangte

The Seekers by Gautamiputra Kamble, translated by Sirus J Libeiro

Blaft Publications@blaft· Jul 2

We're talking Tamil, Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu, & Marathi pulp fiction art at Dakshinachitra on Sat July 25! Shyam... the illustrator behind our Tamil Pulp covers and Kumari Loves a Monster... will be there to regale you with anecdotes from the freewheeling life of an artist on the move

Wrapper -- An Exploration of Book Covers from Indian-Language Pulp Fiction. Rashmi & Rakesh of Blaft + Artist Shyam July 25, 4:30 pm, Dakshinachitra

Blaft Publications@blaft· Jul 1

KAREJWA is the story of a near-earth asteroid. Or a very soft celestial gulab jamun. Something like that! www.blaft.com/collections/...

Blaft Publications@blaft· Jul 1

NAXALBARI is an irreverant Hinglish comic history of India's communist "Red Corridor" -- from the 1967 Naxalbari uprising in West Bengal to modern times. If you're curious about the history but allergic to both govt propoganda and dense Marxist prose, this is for you www.blaft.com/collections/...

Blaft Publications@blaft· Jul 1

Graphic novels back in stock in our "Other Indie Stuff" section: Sumit Kumar's AMAR BARI TOMAR BARI NAXALBARI and Varun Grover's KAREJWA 🧵 www.blaft.com/collections/...

Blaft Publications@blaft· Jun 28

Discounts thru Tuesday on THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF ACSFPB20 gets you 20% off the paperback ACSFHC30: 30% off the hardcover ACSFEBOOK40: 40% off the ebook www.blaft.com/collections/... Add one of Malvika Raj's anti-caste hero bookmark sets for free www.blaft.com/collections/...

Robot hand with lotus drawing by Priyanka Paul

The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF front cover

Table of contents (incomplete) for THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF:
Introduction by R. T. Samuel, page xiii.
Stories:
Korali by Bama, translated by Meena Kandasamy, page 1.

A Demon That Sits On Your Chest by Gouri, page 10.

God's Garden by Goutam Mandal, translated by Ipsa S. and Pratiti Ketoki, page 17.

File No. 786 [The Night Journey] by Hameedha Khan, page 25.

The Phantom Ladder by Gogu Shyamala, translated by Divya Kalavala, page 43.

So It Was Foretold by Mimi Mondal, page 84.

Yangdang Phongma by Subash Thebe Limbu, page 87.

Pruning Neurons by Esther Larisa David, page 93.

In the Extreme Silence of the Agrahara by Aswathy K. Raj, page 123.

Hallucination Stream by Sahej Rahal, page 129.

Robot S/C 5 by Neerav Patel, translated by Gopika Jadeja, page 151.

Supernova (page 158), The Extinction (page 159), The Martian Moustache (page 161), and Vultures on Mars (page 163) by Gautam Vegda.

Looly Cooly by Yeswanth Mocharla, page 165.

The Kitchen Glob by Yukti Narang, page 184.

Happily Ever After by Archita Mittra, page 190.

The River Didn't Know, Either by P. A. Uthaman, translated by Mridula Makkuni, page 197.

Malvika Raj Bookmark Set -- Rohith Vemula, Birsa Munda, Periyar E V Ramasamy

Blaft Publications@blaft· Jun 28

காலை வணக்கம், શુભ સવાર, शुभ प्रभात, ଶୁଭ ସକାଳ, g'morning It's the perfect day to order a book of India Street Lettering with photos from all over the country or an anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction in translation or a whimsical scifi minibook about an interdimensional portal! www.blaft.com/products/the...

Portalpettai by Avakkai and Chukka. (the scifi minibook). Cover features some swaying mushrooms

Art Life: A Kolkata Signboard photo (c) Pooja Saxena

Gujarati Pulp Fiction. Selected and translated by Vishwambhari S Parmar

Blaft Publications@blaft· Jun 27

Pics from some old Blaft events... Rakesh & Rashmi at a Neelankarai fête, and Tamilmagan and @sbdivya.bsky.social at a talk on South Indian science fiction. We lost that maalai-podubavar-velociraptor painting somewhere on our USA trip. Reward for safe return!