Browse through the latest articles and media coverage on India’s top horror and psychological thriller writer here.
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
Top 7 Indian Horror Writers↗
DESIBLITZ.COM | SCARLETT LEUNG
Dakhma review: Author K. Hari Kumar’s new offering is a bone-chilling mystery ↗
FREEPRESS JOURNAL | Sapna Sarfare
Sunday, December 25, 2021, 09:32 PM IST
Of spirits and grisly tales: K. Hari Kumar’s ‘India’s Most Haunted’ ↗
THE HINDU | K.C. Vijaya Kumar
NOVEMBER 23, 2019 16:00 IST
K Hari Kumar on India’s Most Haunted and the Horror genre↗
DECCAN HERALD | Ahmed Shariff
FEB 22 2021, 07:49 IST
India’s Most Wanted: K Hari Kumar speaks about his new book ↗
FREEPRESS JOURNAL | Manasi Y Mastakar
Saturday, October 26, 2019, 11:51 AM IST
A look at fuel price hike in Chennai and how people are reacting to it ↗
Times Now Digital | Feb 22, 2021 | 17:19 IST
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
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
Kalki Koechlin to Play a Novelist With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Psychological Thriller Bhram ↗
INDIA.COM | Zarafshan Shiraz
July 17, 2019 4:59 PM IST
INTERVIEW| Fear defines horror and the reader must be able to perceive that: Author Hari Kumar K↗
THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS
13th November 2019 07:03 AM
Bhram Writer And Novelist K Hari Kumar: Sangeeth Sivan Is An Institution By Himself↗
ZEE5.COM | Kenneth Carneiro
October 19, 2019