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Grabber

Grabber

A thrilling horror fiction based on a popular urban legend about the Black Taj Mahal

Jehan Zachary
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Nirmal Pulickal
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Identical stood the two Taj Mahals, but the black one hid a sinister secret.

Buried in the sands of time is an urban legend-there was once another grand tomb as beautiful and as magnificent as its white twin, the Black Taj Mahal. But it hid a dark secret: the sixty-four chopped hands that built the White Taj.

Centuries later, during the British era, twelve-year-old Nuru befriends a queen from the erstwhile Mughal courts. Mumtaz appears and disappears as she pleases but warns of a prophecy. The revival of the pisacha-a ghoulish union of the sixty-four severed hands that built the White Taj Mahal.

Everyone’s end is near and there is only one way to defeat this evil-find the fabled Black Taj Mahal.

Imprint: India Puffin

Published: Apr/2023

ISBN: 9780143458487

Length : 208 Pages

MRP : ₹250.00

Grabber

A thrilling horror fiction based on a popular urban legend about the Black Taj Mahal

Jehan Zachary
,
Nirmal Pulickal

Identical stood the two Taj Mahals, but the black one hid a sinister secret.

Buried in the sands of time is an urban legend-there was once another grand tomb as beautiful and as magnificent as its white twin, the Black Taj Mahal. But it hid a dark secret: the sixty-four chopped hands that built the White Taj.

Centuries later, during the British era, twelve-year-old Nuru befriends a queen from the erstwhile Mughal courts. Mumtaz appears and disappears as she pleases but warns of a prophecy. The revival of the pisacha-a ghoulish union of the sixty-four severed hands that built the White Taj Mahal.

Everyone’s end is near and there is only one way to defeat this evil-find the fabled Black Taj Mahal.

Buying Options
Paperback / Hardback

Jehan Zachary

Nirmal Pulickal is a well-known creative leader based in Delhi. He co-founded the design firm February, which was acquired by M&C Saatchi global network in 2016. Since then, he has been the Head of Creative for both Amazon and Facebook in India. Grabber started as a drawing of a monster by his ten-year-old son, Jehan Zachary, an artistic middle schooler fascinated by gothic tales and mythology. They created the character together and decided that Grabber deserved an origin story. With langoors and lanterns, scoundrels and
djinns, the story is a white-knuckle ride through Mughal and British-ruled India.

Nirmal Pulickal

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