Unhurried Tales: My Favourite Novellas + When the Night Falls (Set of 2 Books)

?I saw something?something horrible?a boy weeping in the forest?and he had no face!? ?No face Sir?? ?No eyes nose mouth?nothing.? ?Do you mean it was like this Sir?? asked the watchman and raised the lamp to his own face. The watchman had no eyes no ears no features at all?not even an eyebrow! True horror surfaces from darkness only when the night falls! This goose-bumpy collection introduces you to some of the most terrifying ghost stories ever told?old manor house hauntings; a couple on a remote island condemned to a doom of unimaginable horror; a dying woman?s promise that she will be back to take her sisters when their time is up; a solitary walk through the woods in the evening and the terror it unfolds? Each story is sure to send a chill down your spine. So dive under the covers and get ready to be spooked by the wild elements of the night!+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.