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🎉🎉🎉 IT'S BOOK RELEASE DAY 🎉🎉🎉 www.blaft.com/collections/... Join Thamarai, Prasanna, and S.T. Priya in the spectral halls of the GGHSS!!

I read A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School by Kuzhali Manickavel

Also 3 anthologies of Tamil Pulp Fiction in translation Hard-boiled detectives! Vengeful goddesses! Drug-fuelled love affairs! Nitrogen-eating aliens!

friends, this trilogy bundle curated by the excellent lavie tidhar includes my three short story collections so if you could buy this it would be great storybundle.com/blog/2026tri...

They have a ton of Urdu pulp that looks like the purest gold trash, I am in there.

And yes you DO want to read SIN IS A PUPPY THAT FOLLOWS YOU HOME, it's in my like top five soaps, and regular readers will know I think the ability to achieve full soap is one of the greatest writing skills.

yeah so this QT led me to their website, where I realise they also publish the incredible Hausa soapfest SIN IS A PUPPY THAT FOLLOWS YOU HOME (just read it okay) plus loads of Manickavel, and I just spent look sod off it's my birthday this week, I'm allowed.

Great reviews keep rolling in! What are you waiting for? Order the Indian edition here: www.blaft.com/collections/... Or the ebook: www.blaft.com/products/a-c... Or the international edition: angryrobotbooks.com/books/a-revi... Lots more of Manickavel's work: www.blaft.com/collections/...

Tangential to this excellent book that you should read: possibly my brain is rotting, but I twice attempted to recommend this in my panel at ComicCon and twice failed to claw any of the title to mind, and I had literally been reading it on the train there.

If you're an indie Indian music fan with some basic graphic design / copywriting / social media chops who's currently un- or under-employed, hit us up, we have an idea we're working on

friends, more than 3 people came to the event! was especially nice to finally meet @darth-vada.bsky.social. a huge thank you to everyone who came out to all the events, we appreciate you so much 💜

Thanks everyone who came out to Beku tonight for the last stop on the Compendium of Supernatural Entities Book Tour! If you missed it, PICK UP YOUR COPY ONLINE!! www.blaft.com/collections/...

Will be talking bhoots, prets, rakshasas, yakshis, yatudhanas, yeti systematics, the mysterious airi/hantu pemburu allopatry, and the anti-psychopomps of Northeastern hill tribe traditions!

The inimitable @moralpanicbutton.bsky.social has shared the questions that he plans to ask @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social at this event tonight with me, and I think there is a good chance they may unravel some deep mysteries of the universe, you deffo wanna be there and hear it first, Bangalore

How do you react to kids with hands for heads? Kuzhali Manickavel returns with A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School, a novel @steppinlazer.bsky.social deems "one of the most delightful books I’ve read in a minute."

S. T. Priya has the best insults.

Early days, thinking of assigning this book to my speculative fiction students next year, but sitting with the sheer beauty of "Loose-u" as a casual insult on the printed page. I have never written my spoken Tamil-English like this and it is such a joy to see someone else do it...

honestly why aren't you buying this though storybundle.com/trilogies

Starts today!! At KCA HALLLLLL!!!

get all the books!

This Reactor Mag review by @steppinlazer.bsky.social has AN ABUNDANCE OF GREAT PULL QUOTES Spoiled for choice! "a work built on surgically precise deep cuts of teen anthropology, lowkey cosmic horror, & encyclopedic Kollywood references" reactormag.com/book-review-...

THE TRILOGIES STORYBUNDLE IS LIVE!! If you want an incredible deal on Kuzhali Manickavel's 3 short fiction collections, our Tamil Pulp Fiction anthologies, and *TWENTY-TWO* other fantastic volumes of scifi / horror / fantasy, pick up this amazeballs ebook bundle RIGHT NOW storybundle.com/trilogies

friends, only three people have signed up for my book event on sunday so if anyone happens to be in bengaluru on the 25th, please head down to Beku at around 6pm and listen to me and vinayak varma chat about whatever we feel like because no one is the boss of us

Come visit the phantom first floor... but don't go in the library!! www.blaft.com/collections/...

Currently reading Kuzhali Manickavel’s book *deep breath* A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School. It’s funny, creepy, utterly bizarre, really enjoying it.

FYI: 400 pages is a weird Amazon metadata error that won't go away. It's 200 pages, +/- a few, depending on whether you read the Angry Robot edition or ours.

A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School x Kuzhali Manickavel 400 pp. October 6, 2026, Angry Robot. SFF. Mostly new-ish to Manickavel, I didn’t know exactly what to expect from this novel. I had, however, read her super weird story, “The Lucy…

Made a playlist of the Tamil songs in @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social’s latest novel from @blaft.bsky.social. What a fun selection! music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

If you loved Rashmi's Birthday Girlzzz zombie killer gang in The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF, check out "The Legend of Rani Grace" in Bandigoat! www.blaft.com/collections/...

The Indian edition is out for reprint, but the int'l edition of GHOSTS, MONSTERS, AND DEMONS is available...! bookshop.org/p/books/ghos...

Reading @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social’s debut novel from @blaft.bsky.social and I am an instant fan ♥️ I love love love the writing. Weirdgirl fic for the win and I share my dislike of physics with Thamarai.

@kaimaurundai.bsky.social’s writing is also exceedingly delightful. Her short story “The Legend of Rani Grace” from @blaft.bsky.social’s anthology Bandigoat is the best one in the collection.

Covers of Marathi women’s magazine Maaher, from the 1960s and 1970s. Would you look at those oversized hairdos! @blaft.bsky.social antho of Marathi pulp fiction: coming soon!

Anybody in the USA interested in a PRIYANKA PAUL ZINE BUNDLE? (a.k.a. @artwhoring, super brilliant Mumbai-based artist who you must follow if you are on Instagram) I got 4 or 5 sets $20 + shipping Some of these are out of print & we don't know when they'll be back DM if interested

This is TOMORROW (Friday) evening (Please forgive the time zone autopost confusion)

After nearly 3 months of arguing over obscure metadata issues w bots & w CSRs who are only allowed to communicate from a script & are therefore indistinguishable from bots, our new release is FINALLY available on The-Site-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named PLEASE buy indie instead! champaca.in/products/a-c...

i'm supposed to be talking about upcoming book events but it feels weird to do that when the country is turning itself inside out fascism is so gross you guys like seriously what the fuck

friends, please see my shelfie! thank you to lavie and jared shelfies.beehiiv.com/p/shelfies-1...

Yesterday's launch in Coimbatore was a smash success! Tonight @ Lightroom! Tomorrow @ Champaca!

"At times tragic and scary, other times funny, full of the awkwardness of teenage insecurities." Warning: This is one of those reviews that tells a lot of the plot! www.blaft.com/products/a-c...

A writer I discovered, like so often these days, through online recommendations. I can recommend "Things we found During the Autopsy".

Happy book day congratulations to @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social ! Go buy her book, now!

Saturday!

Book Launch | ‘A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School’ by Kuzhali Manickavel Literary event 🗓️ Sun, 11 Oct · 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM 📍 Champaca Bookstore, 7/1 Edward Road, Off Queens Road 🎟️ Free 🏠 By Champaca Bookstore