Tejaswi Priyadarshi is a dreamer in the crime-thriller/horror genre. He derives inspiration from Stephen King, Michael Crichton, Takashi Miike, Alexandre Aja, Eli Roth, Quentin Tarantino, and the Ramsay Brothers. His first book - The Psychopath, The Cannibal, The Lover is a splatterpunk thriller and India’s first recipient of the Horror Writer Association Diversity Grant. It released in July 2020, and has since remained on multiple bestselling charts, scaling its way up to be one of India’s highest rated Horror Thrillers. Bhang Milkha Bhang is his second novel, and his attempt to transcend genres - working with Crime, Thriller, Social Satire, and Horror. Tejaswi is a marketer and an engineer and is currently based out of Bangalore. Outside of work, you can find him writing fiction at a bar counter, appreciating Independent Pop music gigs, and holding screenings of all subgenres of horror/thrillers. However, nobody knows why he adamantly screens Purani Haveli so often. E -mail him at tejaswi.priyadarshi@gmail.com if you want to discuss anything under the sun; “How to Prep for a Zombie Apocalypse” is his favourite topic, because, what if!