Author: Ruskin Bond
Editor(s): Ruskin Bond
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 234
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8129102374
Description
Haunted houses are injurious to health. From his haunted rocking chair, Ruskin Bond takes you on a goose-pimply tour of some famous haunted houses in fiction.
With few exceptions, the occupants of the houses in these stories have come to an unpleasant sometimes messy end. Ghosts resent begin disturbed. They are fussy about who they must have as a neighbor. There is Thurnley abbey, with its terrifying midnight apparition; M R James's haunted doll's house: Hugh Walpole's sinister staircase; and the old manor houses whose hauntings are investigated by Flaxman Low, the Sherlock Holmes of the supernatural. And there's Bram Stoker, who gives Dracula the night off and replaces him with an equally terrifying hanging judge.
Contents
Introduction
The Ghost
A Pair of Hands
A School Story
The Room
Nobody's House
The Judge's House
In the Crowd at the Station
The Decoy
The Story of Yand Manor House
The Story of the Spaniards, Hammersmith
The Haunted Doll's House
The Gardner
The Staircase
Thurnley 'abbey
The Unbolted Door
Gone Fishing
Nothing