So they went on for what seemed like hours, stumbling, creeping, crawling, often falling, through a bewilderment of galleries and caverns... they had long since pasted the point of no return.

Teror. The word conjures up images of ghosts. monsters, half-creatures and phantoms. But terror doesn't always stem from the paranormal. It can turn up in unexpected ways in everyday life, clutching at our heart with icy fingers!

Feel the blind panic of Hansard, a young student of Forestry, when he finds himself in the grip of a maneater, the desperation of a Navy officer and his comrades in the slowly flooding chamber of a sinking submarine; or the terror of two children stuck at the bottom of a cave several miles under the earth, unable to find a way out...

Written by masters of the genre and compiled by Ruskin Bond, here are gems from Sylvia Green, R.L. Stevenson, C.A. Kincaid and Aubrey Wade, among others An Underground Walk is a collection of stories sure to keep you at the edge of your seat.