The Waking Dead

A haunting in the Indian heartland ends with a priest’s violent death.

Enter Samir Grey— fiendishly intelligent, terminally unsociable, and catastrophically human. No divine visions, no lightning shaped scar — just a mind that won’t quit and a tongue sharp enough to draw blood.

To uncover the truth, Samir must descend into a nightmare of uniquely Indian horrors: corpse-eating Vetalas, vengeful Pishachs, ghouls, demons — and the most terrifying of all, bureaucracy and red tape.

Wickedly funny and blisteringly acerbic, The Waking Dead drags urban horror kicking and screaming into small-town India, where folklore and reality bleed together — and the real monsters may be the ones still breathing.