A Season of Ghosts by Ruskin Bond
English | 2016 | General Fiction | 5.1 MB
It is said that if the smell of the Himalayas creeps into a man’s blood, he will return to the hills again and again, and will strive to live amongst them always. Ruskin Bond, master storyteller and connoisseur of the mysterious and macabre, shows how this love may persist to death and beyond.
The stories in this collection are set amidst the mists and mellow magic of Bond’s beloved mountains.
The agents of the supernatural may be gentle like the fairy folk in On Fairy Hill, or malevolent like the well-dressed diners of The Prize; humorous like the very proper witch, Miss Bellows, in The Black Cat, or tragic like the haunting Gulabi in Wilson’s Bridge. The Rakshasas harks back to traditional hill spirits, while The Night of the Millennium poises us tantalizingly on the brink of the future.
Bond aficionados will meet familiar faces in Reunion at the Regal. Rounding off this collection is a gripping mystery, Who Killed the Rani?, which is evocative of life in hill stations some twenty years ago. And over all the stories looms the benevolent or brooding presence of the Himalayas, described with Bond’s inimitable lyricism.
Contains:
Whistling in the Dark
Wilson’s Bridge
On Fairy Hill
The Black Cat
Reunion at the Regal
Something in the Water
The Prize
Night of the Millennium
The Rakshasas
Who Killed the Rani?
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