The Shadow on the Wall : My Favourite Stories of Ghosts, Spirits, and Things That Go Bump in the Night

"The Shadow on the Wall" by Ruskin Bond is a collection of chilling tales featuring ghosts, doppelgängers, haunted places, and supernatural encounters. With classics and new stories, Bond showcases his mastery of horror fiction through eerie and spooky narratives.

The Shadow on the Wall brings together Ruskin Bond''s most chilling works of fright and terror. The twenty-one stories in this book include classics such as "A Face in the Dark'', "The Chakrata Cat'', and "Susanna''s Seven Husbands'', along with a dose of eerie new tales that have never been published before. In "The Shadow on the Wall'', a young writer finds an unlikely first reader in a ghost; "The Doppelgänger'' is a creepy account of beings that occupy two places at once; "Haunted Places'' is a spookyook at the world around us. From horrifying stories of chance encounters with hill station spirits, hauntings in abandoned mansions, malignant and mischievous jinns and shape-shifters, to prets and Mussoorie''s Bhoot-aunty, the twenty-one tales in The Shadow on the Wall showcase Ruskin Bond''s talent as a master of horror fiction.