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13 Chilling Ghost Stories
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ANTHOLOGY OF SPINE-CHILLING GHOST STORIES, HANDPICKED BY RUSKIN BOND, THAT WILL LEAVE READERS HAUNTED LONG AFTER THE LAST PAGE IS TURNED.
A shadow lurking over the bed, a hand pressed against the window, the sound of slippers scuffing down a dark alley … everyone loves a good ghost story, especially Ruskin Bond—one of India’s best-loved authors and a doyen of the art of spooky tales. Within the pages of this carefully curated anthology are stories handpicked by Bond himself.
Featuring masterful storytellers like Nathaniel Hawthorne, H.P. Lovecraft, M.R. James, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Nesbit, Paul Ernst and other notables, this collection is a haunting mix of the eerie, the unsettling and the downright terrifying.
In ‘The Ghost of Dr. Harris’, for instance, the spectre of a wronged doctor haunts the living, blurring the line between justice and vengeance. Then there’s ‘The Terrible Old Man’, in which three criminals plan to rob an old man with a spooky smile. M.R. James’s ‘The Haunted Doll’s House’ unfolds a miniature horror show, complete with a murder. Rudyard Kipling’s classic ‘My Own True Ghost Story’ takes you into the eerie atmosphere of British India. And this is just the beginning …
Open the pages of 13 Chilling Ghost Stories—if you dare—and lose yourself in its perfect blend of timeless horror and classic storytelling.
About the Editor
Ruskin Bond is India's most-loved and read children's author. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen years old, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then, he has written several novels, essays, poems and children’s books. He has also written over 500 short stories and articles that have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 and the Padma Shri in 1999.
ANTHOLOGY OF SPINE-CHILLING GHOST STORIES, HANDPICKED BY RUSKIN BOND, THAT WILL LEAVE READERS HAUNTED LONG AFTER THE LAST PAGE IS TURNED.
A shadow lurking over the bed, a hand pressed against the window, the sound of slippers scuffing down a dark alley … everyone loves a good ghost story, especially Ruskin Bond—one of India’s best-loved authors and a doyen of the art of spooky tales. Within the pages of this carefully curated anthology are stories handpicked by Bond himself.
Featuring masterful storytellers like Nathaniel Hawthorne, H.P. Lovecraft, M.R. James, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Nesbit, Paul Ernst and other notables, this collection is a haunting mix of the eerie, the unsettling and the downright terrifying.
In ‘The Ghost of Dr. Harris’, for instance, the spectre of a wronged doctor haunts the living, blurring the line between justice and vengeance. Then there’s ‘The Terrible Old Man’, in which three criminals plan to rob an old man with a spooky smile. M.R. James’s ‘The Haunted Doll’s House’ unfolds a miniature horror show, complete with a murder. Rudyard Kipling’s classic ‘My Own True Ghost Story’ takes you into the eerie atmosphere of British India. And this is just the beginning …
Open the pages of 13 Chilling Ghost Stories—if you dare—and lose yourself in its perfect blend of timeless horror and classic storytelling.
About the Editor
Ruskin Bond is India's most-loved and read children's author. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen years old, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then, he has written several novels, essays, poems and children’s books. He has also written over 500 short stories and articles that have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 and the Padma Shri in 1999.
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Published November 7, 2024
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Ruskin Bond
680 books3,557 followersRuskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist. He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India. In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children's literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie.
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January 24, 2025
3 stars just because of Rudyard kipling, the ebony frame and phantom coach
Rest all stories, I felt, were okayish
Rest all stories, I felt, were okayish
October 31, 2025
Not very engaging or easy to follow at times, at least for 21st-century readers.
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