THE RUPA BOOK OF SCARY STORIES

Thirteen hair-raising stories to make your flesh creep! From phantom rickshaws to faceless horrors, terror stalks the

streets, the circus arena, the waxworks, the haunted manor,

the Simla Mall...

Here are literary masterpieces by Kipling, Saki, Blackwood and others, brought together by your favourite author, editor and ghost-hunter, Ruskin Bond. His popular anthologies for Rupa bring you the best of suspense, mystery, and the supernatural.

RUSKIN BOND'S first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas (including Vagrants in the Valley, A Flight of Pigeons and Delhi Is Not Far), 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 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra, a collection of short stories, and the Padma Shri in 1999.