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On a quiet, rainy Friday night, journalists Shyam Chakraborty and Prantik Nag sat in their apartment, engrossed in a conversation about the origins of fear. Fables and myths—those strange inheritances from the past—were their subject. Prantik was narrating a ghost story from his childhood, one that had planted a lasting seed of paranoia in him.
Myths are meant to be enjoyed, relished like old wine—passed on, embellished, but never truly questioned. No one really probes into them.
But what if someone did? What if curiosity overruled caution, and the line between storytelling and reality began to blur?
Could a night of casual tales become the doorway to something far more terrifying—an experience so haunting that they'd wish they'd never spoken of such things at all?
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Aleius Sofar
Aleius Sofar was born in 1968, the son of a rural medical practitioner. From an early age, he was drawn to storytelling in all its forms—short stories, novellas, screenplays, commercials, and blogs. Raised in South India, much of his early childhood was spent in boarding schools and later among the vibrant energy of South Indian film circles. At just fifteen, he and a group of local friends directed their first short film on VHS, borrowing a wedding photographer’s camera and using tape-to-tape recording as their editing suite.
Though he was compelled into medical school, Aleius spent just as much time unofficially attending film school and working in production houses from the age of sixteen. His passion for film gradually evolved into a love for writing. He published his first novella in 1991 and spent the following decades experimenting across mediums—creating short films before they were popular in India, composing music for six albums, and directing three independent feature films that, due to financial constraints, never saw full distribution.
After the COVID-19 pandemic, Aleius turned entirely to writing, dedicating himself to fiction. In 2024, he released three novels: Incarnation Messiah: Mind Control Fungus (June), Erosphere (October), and The Church Club (December). His fourth, Etymon—a spiritual reinterpretation that extracts the essence of religious texts beyond dogma—was published in March 2025. Each book represents a cinematic vision translated into the written word.
At present, Aleius lives in South India with his family and writes full-time, publishing at least three books a year. He continues to explore the stories he once dreamed of making into films, now brought to life on the page—ideas, in black and white.
