Jayaprakash Satyamurthy

I just finished Weird Tales of a Bangalorean, and the interplay all the stories in this collection have together is nothing short of amazing. Certain characters share connections, and particular images and scenarios repeat, but the real commonality is the city itself, it's superstitions and history, and the sense of the weird intruding upon it. I don't want to spoil too much, but his unique interpretation of ghosts as the psychic phenomena of events and time periods making a physical show more impression on a place at some etheric level was very well done, and yet even with all the threads running through the book as a whole, each story was a unique, well defined entity of its own. One of the most impressive debuts I've read, there is a great deal of talent, sophistication, and subtlety at work here. show less

Very interesting short collection. Particularly enjoyed "The Song of the Eukarya," but of course, YMMV.