Bengaluru might not be stereotypically the first place to look to for horror literature – either as a setting for a ghost story, or as a place to find a target audience. But author and musician Jayaprakash Satyamurthy has done exactly that – in three separate collections of horror short stories — Shelter From The Storm (2023), Come Tomorrow: and other tales of Bangalore Terror (2020), and Weird Tales of a Bangalorean (2015).

A key marker of Satyamurthy’s writing is that his work does not at any point feel like the city is a mere window dressing for the story – it fits smoothly into the setting, in the way that one can only do while truly knowing the city.

“I’ve lived here since I was 12 or 13; my schooling, college, and entire adult life have been here. My stories are deeply based in the

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