A Face in the Dark and Other Hauntings is a collection that brings together all of Ruskin Bond's tales of the paranormal. It starts with one of his best-known story, 'A Face in the Dark', set in a pine forest outside Shimla. There are tales featuring monkeys and dogs come back from the dead, an elderly lady who is a witch after dark, a schoolboy who rides his bicycle up and down the country road where he was killed, and Kipling's ghost in London's Victoria. All of these are supernatural stories. Bond writes about the supernatural in a way revealing that the presence of ghosts is almost natural in our real world. With simple and lucid English, its a light and spooky read to have by your bedside when the moon is up.
