The Curse of Ranchi’s Rain: The Gila-Mota (Jharkhand: The Cursed Cartography) - Softcover

Khanson, Shadab Alam

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798293701339

Publisher: Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

📚 Jharkhand: The Cursed Cartography
A Horror Anthology Series by Shadab Alam Khanson

Book I: The Curse of Patratu Valley – Whispers of the Wendigo
In the serene hills of Patratu, an ancient hunger awakens. When missing children are found with empty eyes and twisted smiles, whispers of a wendigo resurface — a spirit that devours both flesh and soul.
Theme: Cannibal folklore, environmental rage, post-industrial haunting.

Book II: The Bokaro Sirens – The Furnaced Boy
Each year, a death strikes Bokaro Steel—scalded, unseen, cursed. A technician sees a molten boy in the furnace glow, but it’s not death he brings—it’s a warning. Beneath the steel lies a tribal curse, and the Executioner still claims his due.
Theme: Industrial haunting, tribal vengeance, spectral justice.

Book III: Infernum of Jharia – The Coalhearts
For over a hundred years, Jharia has burned from within. Below the flaming soil dwell the Coalhearts — fire-born specters tied to the Government betrayals. A journalist finds her dead brother’s diary… still warm.
Theme: Eternal fire, cursed love, journal of a living ghost.

Book IV: Bloodlines of Hazaribagh – The Curse of Isko Cave
Inside the Isko caves, prehistoric art bleeds anew. A research team enters to decode lost tribes' secrets — but awakens the Ancestor Who Ate Time, a parasite feeding on memory and kinship.
Theme: Prehistoric revenge, blood memory, curse of forgotten gods.

Book V: The Singhbhum Story – The Wailing Vault of Jadugoda
In the uranium-buried hills of Jadugoda, industrial ambition has ruptured the land—and something ancient within it. A grieving widow’s chant cracks open the Vault, releasing Agnikha, the flame-born curse that mourns, hunts, and burns.
Theme: Radioactive grief, ancestral vengeance, industrial guilt, spectral fire.

Book VI: Doomed Wombs of Koderma – The Mica Mothers
In mica-rich Koderma, spectral women rise from mines—pregnant and headless, singing lullabies that bend bone and womb. As the earth reclaims its daughters, a hidden genocide begins to crack open.
Theme: Exploited maternity, mine horror, mother as avenger.

Book VII: The Netarhat Nocturne – The Cliff of Red Veil
Netarhat’s Suicide Point sings again. Students hear voices in their dreams, calling them to jump. The wind is not wind—it whispers names. One teacher investigates... and walks off the edge smiling.
Theme: Ghostly melodies, mass hysteria, forgotten tragedies.

Book VIII: Citadel of Palamu – The Buried Brothers
Twin princes—one cruel, one worse—were entombed alive beneath Palamu Fort for unspeakable crimes. Centuries later, the vault cracks open. Now they rise as beasts of bone and hatred, turning the citadel into a chessboard of slaughter.
Theme: Evil heritage, undead blood feud, cursed architecture, fortress feeding on souls.

Book IX: The Signal of Jamtara – The Phantom Phisher
A lynched hacker’s soul fuses with code, haunting phones across Jamtara. Victims vanish after a whisper and a single message: “I OWN YOUR SIGNAL.” Now, the network is cursed—and the only escape is disconnection.
Theme: Techno-ghost, cursed signals, cyber-possession, ghost in the grid.

Book X: The Curse of Ranchi’s Rain – The Gila-Mota
Gila-Mota—the Fat ’n’ Wet One—is the spirit of soaked shame and silent suffering. He haunts those who mocked the weak, drowning their bravado in rain that seeps into their lungs. He doesn’t chase—you hear a giggle, feel your breath grow damp… and then you're gone.
Theme: Monsoon horror, spectral mimicry, drowned revenants, urban wet curse.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798293701339
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277