Kharshbun and his brother Sharkhbun are the two sons of Sarban, the first son of the legendary Pashtun ancestor Qais Abdur Rashid.
Sarbans, or Sarbani, the largest tribal group of Pashtuns in Afghanistan
Tartarus publishes classic supernatural fiction by Arthur Machen, M. P. Shiel, Hugh Walpole, Gustav Meyrink, Oliver Onions, and more modern authors such as Sarban, Robert Aickman and David Lindsay, alongside contemporary writers including Quentin S. Crisp, Mark Valentine, Angela Slatter and Rhys Hughes.