Here is another collectible for young horror addicts edited by none other than veteran author Ruskin Bond. Welcome to the terrifying world of horror. And there is only one way to survive. Master your fear. This is a collection of some of the spookiest tales ever written. Terror fans will surely devour these incredible spine-chillers from masters of the genre. Featuring Bram Stoker s Dracula s Guest , Jerome K. Jerome s The Skeleton , C.A. Kincaid s The Werewolf , Thomas Burke s The Hollow Man , and other period chillers, this volume will surprise and horrify hardcore devotees of the genre and newcomers alike. So prepare to be haunted, and retell these grisly tales to your friends to see if you can make their spines tingle.

From Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling to Satyajit Ray and R. K. Narayan, this text is a collection of spine-chilling tales of the supernatural from India.

A Bumper Bond ! Here's a treat for Ruskin Bond Fans-the Ruskin Bond Children's Omnibus!The superbly illustrated volume contains many of Ruskin Bond's best stories, including the ever-popular Grand Father's Private Zoo, written over twenty-five years ago and a firm favourite with two generations of children.For those who love India, good stories, and simple but elegant writing, this is more than a party, it's a banquet!

Since his childhood; Arun has secretly been in love with Susanna; his dangerously alluring neighbour; who becomes his friend despite the wide difference in their ages. But Susanna has a weakness for falling in love with the wrong men. Over the years; Arun watches as Susanna becomes notorious as the merry widow who flits from one marriage to another; leaving behind a trail of dead husbands. It is only a matter of time before he too begins to wonder if there is any truth to the slanderous gossip surrounding the woman he is in love with. In this gripping new novella of love and death; Bond revisits his previously published short story of the same name; included here in an appendix. This edition also features the screenplay Saat Khoon Maaf; based on this novella and written by award-winning film-maker Vishal Bhardwaj and Matthew Robbins.

Thirteen hair-raising stories to make your flesh creep. Here are literary masterpieces by Kipling, Saki, Algernon Blackwood and others with tales filled with chilling terror and unfathomable horror.

Rusty, the boy whose stories have charmed and entertained children for years, brings together his best adventures in one volume! From the time he was a boy living with his grandparents in Dehra, surrounded by an assortment of odd animals, people and relatives, to when he gets sent away to school, then makes his way to London and becomes a writer, Rusty's had more adventures than we can count. This omnibus edition contains his best, funniest, most exciting escapades. In these pages, there's Toto, the monkey that travelled in a bag on a train; an encounter with a leopard; life as a young writer in faraway London; and the return home to roots that were always loved and never forgotten. An evergreen classic of children's writing in India, The Adventures of Rusty will be enjoyed like never before.

Bisnu finds how dangerous and lonely life can be for a boy who has to leave his home to earn money for his family. As he sets to work on the limestone quarries with the choking dust enveloping the beautiful mountain air, he longs for home more than ever.

'No one heard the stealthy padding of a panther approaching the door, pushing it wider open. But suddenly there were sounds of a frantic struggle, and Sanjay's stifled cries were mixed with the grunts of the panther. Kalam Singh leapt to his feet with a shout. The panther had dragged Sanjay out of the door and was pulling him down the steps...' Man-eating panthers, stealthy leopards, majestic tigers and strange birds inhabit the pages of this delightful collection that brings together thrilling tales from the jungle. From the leopard who develops an unlikely bond with a human, to a young boy who discovers a shelf of books in an old forest bungalow; from Timothy, the tiger cub that Grandfather brings home to tame, to the man-eater that terrorizes an entire village-here is a world where man and wild beast come together in surprising, fascinating ways.

Why are outsiders not allowed on Vypeen Island after sunset? What brought Richard Baxter from Calcutta to Kochi in 1948? Where did Baxter and his wife disappear on the night of Pournami? Who is the visitor that the fishermen fear so much? How far will one man go for the woman he loves? Six decades later, Shiuli Dutta is mysteriously lured into the dreaded Clifford Mansion, where she encounters the ghost of Richard Baxter. The grieving ghost tells her an incomplete story of its life. A story that will reveal the darker side of a man’s mind. A story that shall unveil a venomous truth of the past. A story so sinsiter that it shall alter the fate of a nation’s future. A story of courage and cowardice, of deceit and insanity. The story of THAT FREQUENT VISITOR