City of Dreadful Night by Lee Siegel. He contrasts these with Western horror stories, sensibly using Dracula as the definitive example. He does not, oddly, make use of the actual contrast. In Dracula supernatural horror erupts in the normal human world of telegrams, newspapers, and railroad trains. The Indian tales reverse this pattern.
Supernatural horror is the normal world, into which human beings intrude.
The indigenous inhabitants of that macabre Indian world come in several varieties but can be roughly summed up as ghouls. The first blood-slurping monstrosity bedecked with unattractive fragments of human anatomy is impressive. The second is less so. The reader's shudders eventually subside into yawns. Dinopix by Teruhisa Tajima.