A superb storyteller who keeps his readers in thrallStatesman.

It is said that if the smell of the Himalayas creeps into a mans blood, he will return to the hills again and again. Master storyteller Ruskin Bond shows how this love may persist to death and beyond. The agents of the supernatural may be gentle like the fairy folk in On Fairy Hill or malevolent like the well-dressed diners of The Prize; humorous like the very proper witch, Miss Bellows, in The Black Cat or tragic like the haunting Gulabi in Wilsons Bridge. Bond aficionados will meet familiar faces in other stories and be thrilled by the gripping mystery, Who Killed the Rani?

This exciting collection, animated by the brooding presence of the Himalayas, establishes Bond as a connoisseur of the mysterious and macabre.