The Rupa Book of Nightmare Tales
Ruskin Bond
Paperback
(Penguin, March 15, 2006)
The Rupa Book of Nightmare Tales is a collection of stories compiled and edited by Ruskin Bond. The Englishmen who came to India and the East Indies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries wrote these tales. The introduction has been written by Bond himself and in it he explains the antics of the Englishmen and the mad dogs in the midday sun.Ghost stories and unbelievable facts have attracted readers for quite some time. The eerie settings and shiver-inducing encounters in this book will be enjoyable to readers who are fond of nightmare tales. The stories in this book feature several spooky characters. Some have headhunters, some deal with werewolves, while others revolve around assassins, thieves, ghosts and man-eating tigers. This is one of Bonds best selling anthologies.The Rupa Book of Nightmare Tales was published by Rupa in 2004. It is the eleventh of the Rupa anthologies by Ruskin Bond. It is available in paperback.