TARANATH TANTRIK AND OTHER TALES FROM THE SUPERNATURAL

The ghosts are everywhere. Most are ghosts of ideas feelings memories. These are our personal ghosts and they follow us alone. But there are other ghosts in which we share a common fear. Thickening shadows pooling at the corner of the room unexplained breathing in the dark the child who steps out of an old photo—the shiver of supernatural frisson a thin crooked finger of ice tracing its way down your spine. This fear and thrill is rightfully the domain of the kind of ghost you will meet in this book. In Taranath Tantrik Devalina Mookerjee translates nine stories of the uncanny and occult by legendary Bengali storyteller Bibhutibhushan. Seven are short stories of séance curses return for revenge and the desire for things that have no place in human lives. Two are about tantra of necromancy spiritual power goddesses and ghosts. The borders of reality are porous in this world.