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. https://blaft.com

Bandigoat front cover
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.
River of Stories by Orijit Sen. A Bhilala bard sings in front of a map of the Narmada River
MEHRAB BOOK CLUB With Blaft Publications 19 JUL | 4:30 PM SPECIAL EDITION (stamp graphic) Logos: Mehrab Bookshop (with Malayalam script), Blaft (purple robot mascot) Illustration: a group of people sitting together reading books, surrounded by stacks of colorful books.
Chhaya Padchhaya by H. N. Golibar, cover by N Manwar
F A Baldiwala -- a colourful Gujarati / English painted signboard with extruded font
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.
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.
Srivida Tadepalli with a winning smile
"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.
Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales
Wrapper -- An Exploration of Book Covers from Indian-Language Pulp Fiction. Rashmi & Rakesh of Blaft + Artist Shyam July 25, 4:30 pm, Dakshinachitra
The covers of the two graphic novels!
The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction, Volume 1 Selected and translated by Pritham K. Chakravarthy
Robot hand with lotus drawing by Priyanka Paul
Portalpettai by Avakkai and Chukka. (the scifi minibook). Cover features some swaying mushrooms
Rakesh and Rashmi at a table with lots of Blaft books
India Street Lettering by Pooja Saxena
The front cover of A COMPENDIUM OF SUPERNATURAL ENTITIES FOUND IN THE GOVERNMENT GIRLS HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL by Kuzhali Manickavel. The front cover shows a girl in a school uniform, her arm outstretched, holding a small ghostly figure wrapped in a handkerchief on her palm. The girl's face is exploding into a tangle of lotus stems, flowers, and frogs.
A panel from Kunal Lokhande's comic "Sanatan Gaming". S. Sharma shouts at his laptop, which has an "Om" sticker: "Who is running this channel and how dare they claim my god's money??? @ITCELL"
The Gujarati Pulp Fiction book standing on a wall
Three panels: "Biscuit time is when your ideas are ripe for the picking." (A hand plucks a magical-looking fruit) "It's the sun's hot touch on your vitamin-starved skin." (A trippy looking sun with star-eyes) "It's the sight of water seeping into the soil of your poor, dying plant" (top view of dying plant)
A spiral thought bubble that says U DON'T KNOW HOW DESPARATELY I NEED TO EARN I LIVE IN THIS GODDAMNED CITY FFS I NEED TO PAY RENT I NEED TO CUT MY FAMILY OFF I NEED TOP SURGERY I NEED TO SAVE UP FOR IT I NEED TO SAVE UP I NEED TO MASTER MY SKILLS FAST I NEED TO FEED THE ALGORITHM I NEED MORE WORK I NEED TO DO EVERYTHING
The Obliterary Journal Vol. 2
3 books--Gujarati Pulp Fiction, The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF and Tamil Pulp Fiction--are pictured in front of a white sheet that's been quilted (?) with the words THE PEOPLE'S LETTERS
2026 Finalists for Outstanding Short Story includes "Ichthyosis" by M L Krishnan
Shyam hanging off the side of a train. A photographer behind him is clicking his photo
The first page of the The Story of Chawngmawii & Hrangchhuana
Antifascist Numerology
7 copies of Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India arranged in a spooky circle
The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction
Killer Echinoderms in Indian History by Virender Murkblob
Esther Larisa David
Tamil Pulp Fiction Vol. 2, front cover illustration by Shyam features a bloodthirsty yakshi
The book cover
Anti-Caste SF, Gujarati Pulp Fiction, and Tamil Pulp Fiction - Detective Lady tote bags
River of Stories by Orijit Sen
A Compendium of Lesser Sexy Owl Gods by Kuzhali Manickavel. The cover has some very brightly coloured pink and blue and green owls
A copy of Anti-Caste SF sitting near a cycad
Shaktimaan DVD cover, showing Mukesh Khanna in a red and gold suit
Luttappi: A little red devil kid in black briefs with an arrowhead tail holding an arrowhead spear
A Captain Vyom book
The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction Vol. 1 - A gal in a red sari with a specs and a flower in her hair hoists a gun
Two pisachas, by Shyam. They have spiky hair and too many toes and they're eating a leg
Chakram Chandan magazine cover
Nagraj saves Superman and Batman. Superman calls him "Nagraj Dear"
Indrajal Comics - Jungle ke Chor (Jungle Thieves). Bela in dark green pants and light green kurti kicks a bad guy in the jaw. Bahadur's in the background in a truck
Chitra Bharati Kathamala Comics cover: Junior James Bond is riding a donkey, which is kicking two criminals right into the jail
A bare chested muscley blond guy shooting two guns with a third strapped across this front. The background is splotchy pink.
Tauji and the Death Tandav from Diamond Comics-- A white haired balding man in a yellow kurta (Tauji) weilds a scepter and clenches a fist... A guy in a Mughal(?) war helmet and intimidating looking moustache is in the foreground... There is some burning incense, and some spooky blue eyes and windows in the background