Edited Ruskin Bond (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Contents: Introduction. 1. The ghost/Walter de la Mare. 2. A pair of hands/Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. 3. A school story/M.R. James. 4. The room/Eleanor Scott. 5. Nobody s house/A.M. Burrage. 6. The judge s house from Dracula s guest/Bram Stoker. 7. In the crowd at the station/Ruskin Bond. 8. The decoy/Algernon Blackwood. 9. The story of Yand Manor house/E. and H. Heron. 10. The story of the Spaniards, Hammersmith/E. and H. Heron. 11. The haunted doll s house/M.R. James. 12. The gardener/E.F. Benson. 13. The staircase/Hugh Walpole. 14. Thurnley Abbey/Perceval Landon. 15. The unbolted door/Belloc Lowndes. 16. Gone fishing/Ruskin Bond. 17. Nothing/Walter de la Mare. "Haunted houses are injurious to health. With few exceptions, the occupants of the houses in these stories have come to an unpleasant, sometimes messy end. Ghosts resent being disturbed. They are fussy about who they must have as a neighbour. From his haunted rocking chair, Ruskin Bond takes you on a goose-pimply tour of some famous haunted houses in fiction. There s 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.…

Soft cover. Condition: New. Mauger Fitzhugh Monk was born in the British channel island of Guernsey Forced to leave England after a financial scandal he departed for India where under an assumed name he enlisted as a gunner in the East India Company?s 4th Battalion of Artillery He served there as a soldier but soon made his way up to the Himalayan hill station of Mussoorie which had then only recently been established and took up work there; initially as a teacher He argumented his teaching work with various commercial undertakings the failure of which pushed him to the edge of bankruptcy After an extremely eventful career in Mussoorie he finally decided to return to England but sadly died suddenly in 1849 at Meerut He recorded the details of his extraordinary life in India in a long series of letters written to his father and other family members in England between 1828 and 1849 They record his army life in the late 1830?s and then go on to give a fascinating and previously unknown insight into everyday life in Mussoorie and Landour during the 1840?s The collection is an invaluable resource for all who are interested in the social life of 19th century British India and in discovering new aspects of the history of Mussoorie in its very earliest days 255 pp.…

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. In 2012, Jerry Pinto published his debut novel, Em and the Big Hoom, which drew upon his experience of living with a mother who was bipolar. It touched thousands of readers, among them many who also had a loved one afflicted with a mental illness or infirmity. Some of these readers shared their stories with Jerry, and agreed to share them with the world. A Book of Light collects these harrowing yet moving, even empowering, storiesabout the fragility and immense strength of the human mind; the bleakness and unexpected grace of life; the terror and majesty of love. It has now become a book that many people with psychological challenges, and their friends and family, turn to for insight and solaceand to feel less invisible and alone. (jacket).…

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Is your school a hotspot for jokes? Do your family members regularly fall victim to pranks? Do ghosts and spooks get you into trouble? Find every kind of funny, crazy, impossible mischief in this book. Here you will find the girl who turned into a sloth just for her mother, the horse who went to the library and ate up some classics, the substitute teacher who saw dead people, the play where everything that could go wrong did go wrong, and many more amazing tales of pranks and troublemaking! Selected by Ruskin Bond and Jerry Pinto, these stories have been written by some of the best children's writers of the country, including Sukumar Ray, R.K. Narayan, Ranjit Lal, Subhadra Sen Gupta, Paro Anand, Bulbul Sharma and many more. As an added bonus, watch out for brand new stories by Ruskin Bond and Jerry Pinto, too. Prankenstein is a delicious treasure trove of trouble and will have every mischief-maker plotting that perfect prank! (jacket).…