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A haunted old house, terrifying werewolf, the echoes of a heinous crime, the mark of a sinister beast… these and many more grisly tales are here in this compilation of eerie stories that will take you to unexplored territories of the unknown, the uncanny and the plain terrifying.
Haunted houses are injurious to health. With few exceptions, the occupants of the houses in these stories have come to an unpleasant, sometimes messy end. Gjost resent being disturbed. They are fussy about who they must have as a neighbour.
From his haunted rocking chair, Ruskin Bond takes you on a tour of some famous haunted houses in fiction that will make your skin crawl. There’s Thurnley Abbey, with its terrifying midnight ap[partition; M.R. James haunted dolls’s house; Hugh Walpoles sinister staircase; and the old manor houses whose haunting are investigated by Flazman Low, The Sherlock Holmes of the supernatural. And there’s Bram Stoker, who gives Dracula the night off and replaces him with an equally terrifying hanging Judge.ISBN - 9788129115911
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Pages : 450
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