Know Your Ghosts
byShantanu Kulkarni
About the Book
The Konkan has never feared its ghosts. It has always respected them.
This is where the journey begins.
Long before horror novels and haunted houses, India had its own unseen world hidden among forests, temples, rivers, and forgotten villages.
A widow who refuses to disappear. A spirit that steals roads instead of lives. A guardian deity who walks village boundaries after dark. A ghost born from an unfinished promise. These are not monsters created for fear or entertainment. They are fragments of history, echoes of forgotten customs, and living memories passed from one generation to the next.
br> Know Your Ghosts is not a book about horror. It is a field guide to India's invisible architecture drawn from years of folklore research, oral histories, and conversations with priests, ritual specialists, sceptics, and believers, gathered village by village, region by region. It is a journey into one of the world's richest folklore traditions, where every haunting reveals something deeper about faith, loss, ritual, ecology, and the fragile line between history and myth.
Because here, every ghost has a history, and every history still whispers after sunset.
This is where the journey begins.
Long before horror novels and haunted houses, India had its own unseen world hidden among forests, temples, rivers, and forgotten villages.
A widow who refuses to disappear. A spirit that steals roads instead of lives. A guardian deity who walks village boundaries after dark. A ghost born from an unfinished promise. These are not monsters created for fear or entertainment. They are fragments of history, echoes of forgotten customs, and living memories passed from one generation to the next.
br> Know Your Ghosts is not a book about horror. It is a field guide to India's invisible architecture drawn from years of folklore research, oral histories, and conversations with priests, ritual specialists, sceptics, and believers, gathered village by village, region by region. It is a journey into one of the world's richest folklore traditions, where every haunting reveals something deeper about faith, loss, ritual, ecology, and the fragile line between history and myth.
Because here, every ghost has a history, and every history still whispers after sunset.