• ACHU JOHN

The main objective of this study is to look at the different concerns which, the speculative fiction written by the Malayalam writers C. Ayyappan and Gracy deal with. Most of these works depict the general problems of the society but the difference is that they are in the hands of supernatural elements. This gives us the idea that something more powerful than the existing is needed to solve the problems of this world. Ghosts are free to speak and express, they are the ones who decide their own fate and are not controlled by any other forces. It could be that these ghosts are the representatives of an expected future life or simply the expectations of a new world. Death for them is a new solution, a way to get an answer for what they have been searching in their real life, to take revenge or simply a platform to articulate their thoughts. Along with this, the gender relations and the Dalit identities, which these texts deal with, will a-lso be discussed.

Speculative Fiction, Subjugation, Gender, Humane Ghost.

"THE GHOSTLY TONGUE OF THE OTHERWISE VOICES: AN ANALYSIS OF THE SUPERNATURAL IN THE SHORT FICTION OF C. AYYAPPAN AND GRACY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.11-19, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906B03.pdf

"THE GHOSTLY TONGUE OF THE OTHERWISE VOICES: AN ANALYSIS OF THE SUPERNATURAL IN THE SHORT FICTION OF C. AYYAPPAN AND GRACY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp11-19, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906B03.pdf