Unhurried Tales: My Favourite Novellas + The Duel (Set of 2 Books)

There is an inexplicable pull that we feel towards stories about horror and mystery. The fear of the unknown coupled with the thirst to know the ?truth? keeps us turning page after page. This is a collection of mysterious horror stories that will make you hold your breath at every turn and gasp with shock at every twist. From a duel gone horribly wrong and a lodger who conducts mysterious experiments in the dead of night; to a fiendish cat who is out for revenge and a waxwork that eerily seems alive?these tales will make your hair stand on end. Written by the masters of the genre and selected and compiled by Ruskin Bond here are gems from Wilkie Collins Arthur Conan Doyle Bram Stoker and Rudyard Kipling among others. Dare to read The Duel when you are home alone?+Unhurried Tales: My Favourite Novellas brings together for the very first time Ruskin Bond?s favourite (and finest) novellas. The stories in this book include Time Stops at Shamli (written in 1956 and published for the first time in 1987); The Blue Umbrella which has been a bestseller for the last forty years; Angry River which was a longer work when it was first written; Bus Stop Pipalnagar; Night of the Leopard; The Last Tiger and Tales of Fosterganj his latest novella which was published in 2013. These stories speak of a world that has long vanished but it is a world that has lost none of its power to enchant. Whether we are accompanying Sita on her perilous journey down the angry river or Bisnu as he gets the better of a dangerous leopard whether we delight in Binya?s joy at owning her blue umbrella or are saddened by the fate of the last tiger whether we laugh uproariously at the antics of the eccentric guests at the ?hotel? in Shamli get involved in the adventures of the boys in Pipalnagar or plunge into the various goings-on in the ?backwater? of Fosterganj we are always entertained always charmed. All the stories unwind in an unhurried way even those that are filled with death-defying thrills and spills and it is this quality that enables us to sink into them and experience to its fullest the magic of the fiction that Ruskin Bond has spun out of the hills and small towns of India for over sixty years.