Doomed Wombs of Koderma - The Mica Mothers
Book VI of Jharkhand: The Cursed Cartography
By Shadab Alam Khanson
In the mineral-rich belly of Koderma - once hailed as the "Mica Capital of the World" - lies a darkness deeper than any mine. When a series of strange incidents begin to unfold across the dusty villages and silent quarries, the land reveals a horrific truth buried for generations.
A festival celebrating unborn children ends with women in comas. A teenager caught stealing mica explodes after consuming raw earth. Child-sized, limbless creatures crawl from abandoned shafts. And deep within a fissure unearthed by a landslide, a mass grave is discovered: all women, all pregnant, all headless.
Amaya, a young tribal woman, finds herself mysteriously pregnant-her body accelerating at unnatural speed, her womb calcifying. She is not alone. Across Koderma, more women begin to change, as if the earth is reclaiming what was once stolen. As a geological horror unfolds and spectral mothers rise from the mines singing lullabies, Amaya must uncover the ancient secret of the Mica Mothers - spirits born of exploitation, grief, and the betrayal of a sacred bond.
In this chilling sixth installment of Jharkhand: The Cursed Cartography, Shadab Alam Khanson crafts a folklore-laced horror that weaves together gendered violence, environmental ruin, and the metaphysical weight of motherhood. It is a haunting ode to forgotten women, a scream from the soil, and a curse too long ignored.
Koderma bleeds. And the womb remembers.
Series Title: Jharkhand: The Cursed Cartography
Series Description:
In the mist-veiled forests, scorched coal towns, and haunted hollows of Jharkhand, India, lies an ancient cartography-etched not with ink, but with blood, ash, and screams. Jharkhand: The Cursed Cartography is a chilling four-part horror saga that blends folklore, history, and supernatural dread into a bone-deep exploration of haunted terrains. Each book unearths a cursed site where forgotten gods stir, spirits hunger, and the land itself remembers. Through intertwining tales of ancestral guilt, sacrificial rituals, and inherited curses, the series reveals that the true horror lies not just beneath the soil-but in what is born from it.
