When Darkness Falls and Other Stories

In When Darkness Falls, Ruskin Bond emerges yet again as a master storyteller: A deceptively effortless style, an eye for the extraordinary in seemingly humdrum lives and a deep empathy with his characters — even when they belong to the supernatural realm. We meet the war veteran Markham whose deformation ends in tragedy; Susanna, the merry widow who loved each of her seven husbands to death and Kundan Singh, the reckless rake whom women find irresistible. There are also fascinating stories from the author’s childhood, about the eccentric characters and memorable animals of old Dehradun.

CONTENTS

When Darkness Falls

The Garden of Memories

The Ghost of Garden

Return of the White Pigeon

Young Man in a Tonga

The Writer's Bar

Topaz

Susanna's Seven Husbands

The Amorous Servant

Monkey Trouble

Colonel Wilkie's Good Hunting

The Family Ghost

Living Without Money

• Author
• Ruskin Bond

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 102

• Publisher
• Penguin Books, Limited (UK)

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-14-100683-3

• EAN
• 9780141006833

• Genres
• horror, fiction, india

• Release date
• 2003