Nikesh Murali has won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Asian region) and the DWL Story Prize, and also received honourable mentions for the Katha Short Story Prize twice. Nikesh is the writer, narrator, and producer of India's most critically acclaimed storytelling podcast, Indian Noir, which has been featured in Harper's Bazaar, India Today, The Hindu, The Times of India, The New Indian Express, The Hindustan Times, The Deccan Herald, The Statesman, The Week, The Telegraph, The Economic Times, Mid-Day, and other media outlets. It has won rave reviews on major podcasting platforms from critics and listeners alike and is widely considered one of India's best horror and crime podcasts. His popular audio-novel His Night Begins, which was praised by Crime Fiction Lover magazine for its ' terse action scenes and brutal energy', was released to critical acclaim and earned him the tag of the ' most hardboiled of Indian crime writers' from World Literature Today Journal. Tales of Horror is his first book.