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The Waking Dead

The Waking Dead

A Gripping Indian Horror Thriller | Dark Folklore, Small-Town Secrets & a Reluctant Genius Caught Between Monsters- Living and Dead

Rohan Monteiro
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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 into each other—and the real monsters
may be the ones still breathing.

Imprint: India Penguin

Published: Dec/2025

ISBN: 9780143473664

Length : 240 Pages

MRP : ₹399.00

The Waking Dead

A Gripping Indian Horror Thriller | Dark Folklore, Small-Town Secrets & a Reluctant Genius Caught Between Monsters- Living and Dead

Rohan Monteiro

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 into each other—and the real monsters
may be the ones still breathing.

Buying Options
Paperback / Hardback

Rohan Monteiro

Rohan Monteiro has spent years studying the thin line between the living and the dead, and occasionally tripping over it. The author of Keep Calm and Go Crazy (2016), Shadows Rising (2024) and Shadows Revealed (2025), he
insists his characters are entirely fictional, though several have started answering his emails.

When not raising corpses, he can be found reading, playing badminton badly or at home avoiding people.

He believes good stories, like ghosts, can follow you home and crawl into your bed. The Waking Dead is his fourth novel.

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