The Moving Shadow: Electrifying Bengali Pulp Fiction

Disappearing corpses. Scientists who are spies.Maniacal murderers. Brooding, remorseless detectives.ove triangles and murders. A robot that falls inove. Secrets of the dead and the departed. Sex, romance and betrayal. All these and more are to be found in these eight novellas and stories featuring spies, criminals, ghosts, black-magic practitioners and, of course, femmes fatales. These are the finest examples of aong tradition of pulp fiction that has alwaysurked in dark corners within the hallowed precincts of Bengaliiterature.Written by brilliant mainstream as well as pulp fiction writers from India and Bangladesh, including Premendra Mitra, Satyajit Ray, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Gobindolal Bandyopadhyay and the redoubtable Swapan Kumar, the stories in The Moving Shadow: Electrifying Bengali Pulp Fiction give the reader a dazzling introduction to noir from theand of the bhodrolok.