The Rupa Book of Scary Stories

Thirteen hair-raising stories to make your flesh creep. Here are literary masterpieces by Kipling, Saki, Algernon Blackwood and others with tales filled with chilling terror and unfathomable horror.

About the author

"Ruskin Bond is known for his signature simplistic and witty writing style. He is the author of several bestselling short stories, novellas, collections, essays and children's books; and has contributed a number of poems and articles to various magazines and anthologies. At the age of 23, he won the prestigious John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for his first novel, The Room on the Roof. He was also the recipient of the Padma Shri in 1999, Lifetime Achievement Award by the Delhi Government in 2012 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014.

Born in 1934, Ruskin Bond grew up in Jamnagar, Shimla, New Delhi and Dehradun. Apart fromthree years in the UK, he has spent all his life in India and now lives in Landour, Mussoorie, withhis adopted family."

Product details

• Authors: Ruskin Bond
• Publisher: Rupa Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.01.2002
• EAN: 9788129103895
• ISBN: 978-81-291-0389-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 178 g
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature