• English - Science Fiction

    The Time Bazaar of Varanasi

    September 6, 2025 - By 

    Nabin Tiwari The evening in Varanasi carried its usual symphony of life and death—the rhythmic chants of priests, the crackle of lamps along the ghats, and the ceaseless murmur of the Ganges beneath a dusky sky. Smoke from incense coils drifted lazily over the stone steps, curling around the heads of pilgrims and the cloaked figures of wandering ascetics. Arjun, whose heart carried the weight of a mother’s fading life, moved silently among the crowd, barely noticing the colors or sounds that so many others revered. His focus was on her pale face at home, the shallow breaths, and the…

  • English - Horror

    The Hollow Village

    August 27, 2025 - By 

    Aarav Sen Episode 1: The Wrong Turn The air thinned as the trail rose, a slow, needling cold that found the seams in jackets and the cracks in bravado. Rhea Banerjee kept her camera slung against her ribs like a warm heart she could press to; every few minutes she paused to frame a ridge, a smear of cloud, the ant-line of pilgrims far below. Aditya Malhotra walked ahead with his hands in his pockets and that steady, skeptical pace that made him look like he was measuring the mountain and finding it slightly overrated. Tara and Naman, their friends…

  • Assamese

    অন্ধকাৰৰ ছাঁ

    August 21, 2025 - By 

    হিমাংশু বৰুৱা প্রথম পৰ্ব বৰষুণৰ ভাৰী ধাৰাটোৱে ডিঙি মাৰি আহিছিল কঁকালত সোমাই থকা পথটোৰে। আজি তিনিদিন ধৰি নৰমণিষে মানুহ নেদেখা গাঁওখনৰ উপৰত মেঘজাক গামোচাৰ দৰে ওলমি আছিল। ভেজা ধোঁৱাৰে ঢকা সেই আঁতৰুৱা গাঁওখনক সঘন জঙলৰ মাজেৰে ছাঁকু বৰুৱাই ঘূৰি আহিছিল। ছাঁকু বৰুৱা—পৰীক্ষামূলক ডকুমেন্টাৰী চলচিত্রৰ এজন নতুনকৈ নাম উঠা নির্মাতা। তেওঁৰ মনত পৰি গৈছিল এক ডাঙৰ প্ৰকল্প, অসমৰ গাঁৱৰ ঠেকে ঠেকে থকা ভূতৰ কাহিনীসমূহ ধৰি চলচিত্র তৈয়াৰ কৰাৰ। গাঁওখনৰ নাম আছিল দেউলগাঁও। কেতিয়াবা ডেকা ল’ৰাসকলে গাঁওখনক কাহিনীৰ গাঁও বুলি হাঁহি হাঁহি কৈ থাকিলেও, অচিন গাঁৱলৈ আহি ৰাতি পাৰ কৰা লোকৰ সংখ্যা সৰহ নহয়। লোকে কয়, গাঁওখনৰ পূবত থকা ভাঙি পৰা মন্দিৰটোৰ…

  • English - Horror

    The Baul’s Final Song

    July 25, 2025 - By 

    Asit Chowdhury 1 The red dust of Birbhum clung to Dr. Soumita Sen’s sandals as she stepped off the rickety local bus into the drowsy village of Palashpur. A warm wind carried the scent of mahua flowers and something more ancient—old wood smoke, dried hay, and the faintest echo of a tune no one seemed to sing. Her DSLR swung at her side, and in her leather satchel rested her most important equipment—a portable sound recorder and an archive notebook with trembling pages of half-remembered Baul songs. Palashpur had not been part of her original plan. She had been chasing…

  • English - Horror

    Shadows Beneath the Ghat

    June 21, 2025 - By 

    Sohini Chattopadhyay Chapter 1: The Rented Room Tuhina Roy arrived at the old mansion just as the late November light began to fade into the haze of North Kolkata’s dusk. Ahiritola Ghat loomed just beyond the house—a crumbling stretch of stone steps and moss, where the Hooghly whispered its slow secrets. She was here to research colonial bathhouses, but what drew her was something less academic, more instinctive. A longing she couldn’t explain. The house stood like a reluctant witness to time. Faded green shutters flanked its tall windows, the wrought-iron balconies sagging under decades of neglect. A strand of…

  • English - Romance

    The Many Faces of Love

    June 19, 2025 - By 

    Subhankar Roy The Face in the Mirror In the clay-walled room of his mud house, Gokul sat cross-legged before a cracked mirror, the bristles of his paintbrush trembling slightly as he dipped it into a pot of red. The morning sun filtered through a bamboo blind, casting lines across his bare chest. Today, he would become Hanuman. With practiced hands, he painted white strokes over his brow, outlined his eyes in black, and added bold red lips. The paint smelled of turmeric and earth. It was the scent of his childhood, of his father’s hands guiding his tiny fingers to…

  • English - Horror

    The Black Thread

    June 14, 2025 - By 

    Aaryan Sen Amaan Khan believed in facts. As a forensic journalist, he had covered everything from organ trafficking in Jaipur to political assassinations in Bihar. His articles were precise, unflinching, and deeply respected—because Amaan believed there was always a logical explanation behind every mystery. That belief began to crack the day he arrived in Bhimtara, a forgotten village cradled in the Satpura foothills. It started with a death—officially recorded as cardiac arrest. The deceased: District Magistrate Nalin Jadhav, age 41, no prior medical conditions, found slumped over his desk in the government guest house. But it wasn’t the death that…

  • English - Horror

    The Silent Temple

    June 12, 2025 - By 

    A. K. Murugan  The Forgotten Path Tamil Nadu in June was a furnace of forgotten ruins and rustling palms, but for Meera and Tara, it was another tick on their growing list of offbeat travel destinations. They had been crisscrossing India for over a year now, documenting haunted forts, strange folk rituals, and abandoned villages on their blog, Whispers Unheard. What started as a quarantine boredom project had become a modestly successful travel page with a dedicated audience eager for the eerie and unexplained. But nothing they had seen so far compared to what Tara found one night on a…