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Ghost Stories
‘The Phantom’s Howl’: A nifty little trove of emotionally complex, modern Bengali ghost stories
Projit Bihari Mukharji
· May 03, 2025 · 03:30 pm
Fiction: Mamta learns of the bloodthirsty dakini while investigating mysterious deaths in a village
K Hari Kumar
· Oct 23, 2024 · 05:30 pm
A new book brings spooky stories from Madras Christian College and other ‘haunted’ places in India
Riksundar Banerjee
· Apr 18, 2023 · 08:30 am
Here’s what Gulshan Devaiah is doing about being ‘underrated and underutilised’
Devarsi Ghosh
· Feb 06, 2020 · 02:00 pm
Dibakar Banerjee interview: ‘Ghost Stories’ film takes the audience to ‘a primitive kind of society’
Devarsi Ghosh
· Dec 26, 2019 · 10:00 am
‘Ghost Stories’ trailer: The ‘Lust Stories’ quartet brings a series of horror short films
Scroll Staff
· Dec 13, 2019 · 05:38 pm
Janhvi Kapoor joins cast of Netflix film ‘Ghost Stories’
Scroll Staff
· Aug 19, 2019 · 01:27 pm
Netflix ties up with Karan Johar, Shah Rukh Khan, Shashanka Ghosh and more for 10 new Indian films
Scroll Staff
· Apr 15, 2019 · 04:05 pm
Haunted trains and railway stations have a long history in Bengal – and its literature
Arup K Chatterjee
· Jan 26, 2018 · 11:30 am
