The Thing in the Upper Room

‘The dagger in its wicked
curves seemed now a creature of some outlandish fantasy—a snake with a beaked
head, a thing of nightmare, in some new way dominant, overruling the centre
of his perceptions. The rest of the room grew dim, but the red stone glowed
with a fuller light…’ Most of us have heard stories about haunted houses.
Some brave souls might also have visited one. Gloomy interiors, rickety
staircases, dusty mirrors and moth-eaten furniture with cobwebs all
around—apart from these, there’s hardly anything ‘haunted’ about these
houses. Many people pooh-pooh the existence of actual ghosts, not realizing
that the supernatural is way beyond our grasp. This is what happens with
Attwater, who, disbelieving of spirits, rents a haunted room and finds out to
his horror what games dark forces play! Hair-raising stories from famous
masters of horror-writing are brought together in this anthology by your
favourite author and ghost-hunter, Ruskin Bond. So what are you waiting for?
Don’t you want to know what’s lurking around the corner?