Horror has always existed in India.

It lurks in our folklore, breathes through our myths, hides in family stories whispered after dark, and continues to haunt our cinema, our art, our beauty rituals, and our collective imagination.

Terror Talkies was born from the belief that horror is more than a genre. It is a way of understanding the world.

 

As India's first horror culture magazine, Terror Talkies explores the spaces where fear, folklore, cinema, art, fashion, technology, and culture collide. We write about films, but also about monsters, memory, body horror, beauty, ritual, obsession, and the things that keep us awake at night.

 

From cult cinema to ancient folklore, from handmade monsters to modern anxieties, Terror Talkies is an ever-evolving archive of darkness, documenting the strange, the unsettling, and the beautifully terrifying.

We believe that horror has never only existed on screen. It lives in the stories we inherit, the fears we suppress, the images we create, and the monsters we choose to remember.

 

As artist Paula Rego once said, "If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end up becoming quite fond of them."

 

Welcome to Terror Talkies.

Welcome to the darkness.

There’s no turning back now.

Sapna Moti Bhavnani

Editor-in-Chief, Terror Talkies