Cult Of Chaos – Shweta Taneja

When Malli sahib came with his offer to use the building, how could we refuse?’ We were surrounded by a group of other men, most of them curious bystanders, some taking pictures of the warehouse, and one attempting to take a photograph of me. I obligingly took out my boneblade to pose. The man replaced his phone in his pocket. “… scientist, the devil called himself. A scientist. We would have refused, but our begum wouldn’t let us.

She fell for the shaitan. The money he offered was quite a lot, a lot more than we have ever seen. But he told us that he had a funder in Amreeka and could afford to pay more. Who refuses if Allah himself has granted us his grace? I fell for it, sahib, mind you. I didn’t want to, but I did. All he wanted was for me to ensure that nobody entered the place because the experiment was top secret. We weren’t supposed to say anything.

Doing Black magic in our own backyard! Devil of a …’ I left Madhu patiently nodding, and walked past the police cordon tape. The warehouse looked like it had only just been burnt down. The grimy bulbs glowed weakly and only added to the dingy atmosphere of the place. Tables, chairs, photocopier machines and half-burnt books were strewn around. Towards the middle, there was a section that had no roof.

It was exactly under this hole that the triangle had been made. Right beneath the stars, for the moonblade needed to look at its sister above to power up. I wondered how many months of research had gone into finding the perfect spot so that this guy, who now lay dead and frozen in front of me, could perform the ritual. Shock jolted through me when I saw the girl lying in the triangle — on her face was not terror 168 / Shweta Taneja like the other two, but acceptance.

It was the same face that had come to me in my nightmare attached to a raven’s body. The successor of the great Shukracharya gave me a curt nod before returning to his work, his reedy frame bent down at the apex of the triangle. He had a metal box in his hands that buzzed every now and again.

I walked around the triangle, examining the grim scene.

SHWETA TANEJA is an author, graphic novelist and journalist based in Bangalore. Her debut novel, The Ghost Hunters of Kurseong (Hachette India, 2013), is a breezy mystery set in the hills. She has written two graphic novels, Krishna: Defender of Dharma (2012), which has been subscribed by CBSE for its Schools Reading List, and The Skull Rosary (2013), which got nominated for Best Writer at the Comic Con Awards the same year. Her aim is to prod and pry the peculiar and the odd, and to break preconceived notions about paranormal and supernatural with her books.

To do that, she regularly drinks Makaibari tea, hogs on popular occult shows and books, and asks all sorts of weird questions (you’ve been warned). Connect with her online at www.shwetawrites.com or find her on most social networks with her handle @shwetawrites. Cult of Chaos is Shweta’s first Anantya Tantrist mystery. If you would like to ask questions to Anantya or know more about tantriks and her world, connect with her on Facebook and Twitter with her handle @anantyatantrist or follow her blog tantrist.tumblr.com.

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This is a work of fiction and all characters and incidents described in this book are the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.

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