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Spinning Yarns of Horror

DECCAN CHRONICLE. | JAYANTHI MADHUKAR Oct 25, 2019, 1:43 am IST

India’s Most Haunted is the biggest collection of horror short stories based on real haunted places written by a solo author in a single volume.

Scary stories are stuff for the night. “They are like woollen blankets,” says author K Hari Kumar. “They keep you warm on rainy nights.” With his latest book, India’s Most Haunted: Tales of Terrifying places (HarperCollins), Mumbai-based Kumar wishes to reaffirm his place as one of India’s top horror writers. With a collection of fifty short stories, he hopes to frighten the socks off the reader by keeping it ‘simple so that everyone can understand’. “One need not tharoorify their manuscript,” he notes, setting the tone for the interview.

Journals of the plague year: The books of 2021 straddle two worlds, pre- and post-pandemic

THE HINDU. | Jaideep Unudurti
DECEMBER 24, 2021 13:04 IST

Like sci-fi, another genre that asks us to stretch our imagination is horror. After being stuck for ages in dusty attics with ghosts of Victorian writers like M.R. James, Indian horror is slowly maturing, as proved by books like Venita Coelho’s Dark Tales: Ghost Stories from India or Dakhma by K. Hari Kumar.

In these books, it is human misdeeds that are ghoulish, unleashing consequences that reverberate down the generations. 

‘Dakhma’ combines Mumbai, the tower of silence, and an apartment building into an eerie novel ↗

SCROLL. | K.Hari Kumar
Nov 30, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Dust covered the maroon living room walls, which gave them a slightly brownish appearance. A teakwood sofa set spread out in an L-shape with a broad table in the centre; a cabinet with lots of space for books and showpieces made up the living room.

There were elaborate carvings on the wood that gave the interiors a traditional European look and feel. The smell of ageing wood consumed Anahita’s olfactory senses; she did not like it.

Spine-Chilling Horror Books by Indian Authors You Must Read ↗

TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Sep 18, 2020, 08:30 IST

Halloween special: Why is the horror genre still an underrated one in India? ↗

FREEPRESS JOURNAL | Sapna Sarfare
Saturday, October 24, 2020, 07:14 PM IST

By the Pricking of My Thumbs ↗

DECCAN HERALD | Ahmed Shariff
FEB 21 2021, 01:01 IST

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A Real Horror Show

BANGALORE MIRROR | Bangalore Mirror Bureau
Oct 27, 2019, 06:00 IST

That Frequent Visitor: An Extrasensory Tale↗

THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS | Shalet Jimmy
11th February 2015 06:00 AM

When Strangers Meet: For The People ↗

THE HINDU, KOCHI | ESTHER ELIAS
AUGUST 02, 2013 18:27 IST

Storyteller at Heart↗

DECCAN CHRONICLE | Chris S
JUNE 10, 2013 18:27 IST

Writers’ Blog↗

DECCAN CHRONICLE | Chris S
09th Sep 2013 06:00 AM

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