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Kurunthikaavu
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 8 2026
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Stay below the last terrace after dark. No one in Cherukunnam has ever needed a better reason than that.
Beyond the last terrace of Cherukunnam, hidden beneath centuries of towering trees and monsoon mist, lies Kurunthikaavu, an ancient sacred grove that no one dares to enter. For generations, the village has believed that Kurunthi, an unseen presence older than memory itself, dwells within its depths. Whether Kurunthi is a spirit, a curse, or something beyond understanding has long been forgotten. Only the fear has endured.
Kesavan has never believed those stories.
To him, Kurunthikaavu is nothing more than a forest, and the legends surrounding it are relics of a frightened past. Alongside his closest friends, Raman, Govindan, and Chandu, four young men bound by the same village, the same fields, and the same fire-lit nights, Kesavan carries a conviction the rest of Cherukunnam has spent generations trying to unlearn: that some fears exist only because no one has ever tested them.
Set in the rain-soaked hills of Kerala in 1824, and drawn from the sacred groves, oral traditions, and half-forgotten folk beliefs that still linger in the state's countryside, Kurunthikaavu is a slow-burning psychological folk horror novel about the weight of inherited fear, the limits of reason, and what a village chooses to believe when the truth refuses to explain itself.
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