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Woohoo we got a stop-motion animation unboxing video from Zimbabwe!! @matratype.bsky.social

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/...

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...

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/...

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

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/...

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

The Kumbri Marathi tribe of the Karnataka coast have a complex taxonomy of spirits, separated into two main classes, the merely annoying Padosamarava (held responsible for scabies and other minor ailments) and the diabolical Balishtamarava, spirits formed by the simultaneous deaths of several (1/4)

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/...

"This is not dream logic, not surrealism nor magic realism. This is not the old weird or the new... Even the unbroken worlds are fragile, anxious, surveilled, itchy" #10YearsAgo @vajra.me on Kuzhali Manickavel strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Marginalia: You Spin Me Right RoundI'm going to talk a little bit about the work of Kuzhali Manickavel.strangehorizons.com

When Thamarai finds a mysterious notebook full of descriptions of her school's paranormal phenomena, she wonders if it may hold the key to escape... Pre-order Kuzhali Manickavel's "A Compendium of Supernatural Entities", releasing October 6! www.blaft.com/collections/...

A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary SchoolRelease Date: October 6, 2026 Available for Pre-Order a novel by Kuzhali Manickavel 232 pages. 8.25" x 5.5". 300 g Paperback ISBN: 9788199509146 In the oppressive heat of a small Tamil Nadu town, stra...www.blaft.com

KOCHI! We'll be talking Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons this Sunday at Mehrab! With Gouri (author of "A Demon That Sits On Your Chest" in The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF / urban ecologist / yakshi story aficionado) and Rakesh (Blaft co-founder) Registration link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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In THE BLAFT ANTHOLOGY OF GUJARATI PULP FICTION you'll find: - translations of Gujarati horror, scifi, & crime stories from the 1920s through the early 2000s - an 8-page colour gallery of off-the-hook cover art - a selection of vintage ads and answer columns www.blaft.com/collections/...

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-...

⚡PRICE DROP ⚡on Balaraba Ramat Yakubu's classic 1990 soyayya novel SIN IS A PUPPY THAT FOLLOWS YOU HOME "Utterly addictive" —Nnedi Okorafor ₹250 only!! Free shipping w/in India!!! How many books translated from African languages have you read? www.blaft.com/collections/...

Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Homeby Balaraba Ramat Yakubu translated from the Hausa by Aliyu Kamal cover image by Glenna Gordon 125 pages. 8.25" x 5.5". 200 g Paperback ISBN: 9789381626849 "Utterly addictive" —Nnedi Okorafor Beginnin...www.blaft.com

Also available: our last few copies of Studio Ekonte's Vérité 03 collection Containing a Hindi translation of Hiroshi Hirata's samurai epic BLOODY STUMPS -- which some may recognise as the manga Yukichi Yamamatsu was trying to publish in STUPID GUY GOES TO INDIA!! www.blaft.com/collections/...

Vérité 03edited by Bharath Murthy Paperback; 240 pp. Publisher: Studio Ekonte Vérité is a comics anthology series containing Indian comics and Japanese alternative manga. Volume 3 of the series features a spec...www.blaft.com

Down to a few copies of this one, too: GARDEN OF THE SNAKE, an ultratrippy fantasy comic by Appupen, set in the fictional universe of Halahala www.blaft.com/collections/...

Garden of the Snakeby Appupen Paperback; 44 pp Publisher: Halahala Comics Garden of the Snake delves further into the legendary world of Halahala, first introduced in Moonward (2009). The 60-page silent comic book consi...www.blaft.com

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/...