RUSKIN BOND - When the Night Falls

'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...