Whispering in the Dark
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'One by one the clocks of the town struck midnight, when the sounds died away the deep silence of windless night fell again over everything... ' A great imagination makes for terrific ghost stories-- stories that go beyond the tapping on the doors in the middle of a night or a whistling thrush or even a squeaky swing in the wind. This is a collection of some such horror stories selected and compiled by Ruskin Bond that will send shivers down your spine. There is Flaxmanow, the Sherlock Holmes of the supernatural and his psychological detection by his creators E. and H. Heron; Algernon Blackwood's ' The Decoy' and ' The Empty House' taking suspense to unbearableengths; a friendly hoax in Percevalandon's ' Thurnley Abbey' that turns into real horror; Alice Perrin's jungle thriller ' The White Tiger'; and many more such tales that will spook you with the very best of suspense, mystery and the supernatural.
Ruskin Bond
Ruskin Bond is one of India's most well-known writers. Born in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, in 1934, he grew up in Jamnagar, Dehradun and Shimla. In the course of a writing career spanning over seventy years, he has published over a hundred books, including short-story collections, poetry, novels, essays, memoirs and journals, edited anthologies and books for children. The Room on the Roof was his first novel, written when he was seventeen. It received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. He has also received many other awards, including the Sahitya Akademi award in 1992, the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014. Many of his stories and novellas including The Blue Umbrella, A Flight of Pigeons and Susanna's Seven Husbands have been adapted into films.
Ruskin lives in Landour, Mussoorie. His other books with HarperCollins include These are a Few of My Favourite Things, Koki's Song, How to Be a Writer, The Enchanted Cottage and How to Live Your Life.
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