You Will Survive This Night

by Indrapramit Das, Deepti Gupta (Narrator)

An assault at a Kolkata party awakens a deadly curse. Who can escape its vengeance?

"You Will Survive This Night" by Indrapramit Das is one of 27 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology.

Come Join Us by the Fire S2 is the second installment of Nightfire's audio-only horror anthology, featuring a wide collection of short stories from emerging voices in the horror genre as well as longtime fan favorites. The collection showcases the breadth of talent writing in the horror genre today, with contributions from a wide range of genre luminaries including Laird Barron, Indrapramit Das, Shaun Hamill, Daniel M. Lavery, Matthew Lyons, T. Kingfisher, Seanan McGuire, Nibedita Sen, and Nightfire’s own Cassandra Khaw and Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

The full Table of Contents is as follows:
Cassandra Khaw- "Some Breakable Things"
Sarah Langan- "The Changeling"
Shaun Hamill- "Music of the Abyss"
Caitlín R. Kiernan- "Standing Water"
Tade Thompson- "Bone"
T. Kingfisher- "Origin Story"
Silvia Moreno-Garcia- "The Sound of Footsteps"
Laird Barron- "Jōren Falls"
Damien Angelica Walters- "Tooth, Tongue, and Claw"
Sunny Moraine- "If Living is Seeing I'm Holding My Breath"
Matthew Lyons- "Blood Daughter"
Jessica Guess- "Mama Tulu"
Daniel M. Lavery- "Prodigal Son"
Seanan McGuire- "Emergency Landing"
Indrapramit Das - "You Will Survive This Night"
‘Pemi Aguda- "Things Boys Do"
Kelly Link- "The Specialist's Hat"
Clay McLeod Chapman- "The Fireplace"
Nibedita Sen- "Pigeons"
Camilla Grudova- "Ghost Bread"
Catherynne M. Valente- "The Days of Flaming Motorcycles"
Brian Evenson- "The Cabin"
Maria Dahvana Headley- "The Krakatoan"
Craig Laurance Gidney- "Spyder Threads"
Mariana Enriquez- "Things We Lost in the Fire"
Gabino Iglesias- "The Song of the Lady Rose"
Nick Antosca- "The Quiet Boy"

Genres: Horror, Short Stories, Audiobook

Audiobook

Published October 15, 2020

About the author

See also Indra Das.

Indrapramit Das (also known as Indra Das) is an Indian science fiction, fantasy and cross-genre writer, critic and editor from Kolkata. His fiction has appeared in several publications including Clarkesworld, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com, and has been widely anthologized in collections including Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction.

His debut novel The Devourers (Penguin Books India, 2015; Del Rey, 2016) won the 29th Annual Lambda Award in LGBT SF/F/Horror category. The Lambda Award celebrates excellence in LGBT literature. The Devourers was shortlisted for 2016 Crawford Award, and included in the 2015 Locus Recommended Reading List. It was also nominated for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and the Tata Live! Literature First Book Award in India.

Das is an Octavia E. Butler Scholar and a graduate of the 2012 Clarion West Writers Workshop. He completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

He is a former consulting editor of speculative fiction for Indian publisher Juggernaut Books.

Reviews

[Stephanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This brings rape in India back to the forefront, in how it’s viewed and how it is defined, not to mention the question of the necessity (or not) of consent within a marriage and/or a relationship. Additionally there are the roles of men and women – patriarchal or matriarchal power – in family and society to consider. Add a dash of Indian witch magic, and let’s just say, there are severe consequences to taking a flippant attitude towards consent, feminism, and rape.

[Becca · Rating 3 out of 5]

This felt too short but I liked the narration. The sound effects were a fun addition too.

[Lu Rose · Rating 1 out of 5]

It was ok kinda scary but NOT my kind of scary / horror

[David Blaylock · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too quick revenge story.

[anusmita · Rating 4 out of 5]

a short tale incorporating bengali folklore with themes of revenge and sisterhood, all tangled in a mesmerising web spun by it's fluid prose.