Description:‘As
a matter of fact,’ he went on to say, ‘I believe in vampires myself.’
‘You do?’ I felt the hair on the back of my neck commence to irritate.
It is one thing to write about a horror, but quite another to begin to
see it assume definite shape. ‘Yes,’ said Father R—. ‘I am forced to
believe in vampires for the very good but terrible reason that I have
met one!’
Tales of vampires, ghouls, werewolves and spirits rub
shoulders with shikar stories and thrillers from all over the world in
this eclectic collection. Selected by Ruskin Bond, these are stories by
Bram Stoker, Sydney Horler, Alice Perrin, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan
Doyle, Saki, and Amelia Edwards, and many others. Read about a
precarious journey in a haunted coach; a seemingly supernatural
man-eater; Sherlock Holmes investigating a locked room mystery; and an
Englishman who spends a night of horror in a long-deserted village
before traveling on to Transylvania as the guest of Count Dracula.