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    The Creature on the Moonlit Road: More Stories of the Supernatural
    The Diary of a Nobody
    The Haunted Dolls' House: Stories of the Supernatural
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    Ruskin Bond Selections Series

    By Frank S. Smythe, Alice Perrin, Rumer & Jon Godden and

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    A woman’s ghost comes calling for her devoted husband; an amulet hastily given to a British officer saves him from a man-eating tiger; a happily married young woman finds herself reminiscing about someone lost for ever; an ayah sings lullabies to her imaginary charge; and an obnoxious self-made man loses his family in a flash.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSpeaking Tiger Books
    Release dateJun 13, 2016
    The Creature on the Moonlit Road: More Stories of the Supernatural
    The Diary of a Nobody
    The Haunted Dolls' House: Stories of the Supernatural

    Titles in the series (6)

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      The Haunted Dolls' House: Stories of the Supernatural
      The Haunted Dolls' House: Stories of the Supernatural

      The Haunted Dolls' House: Stories of the Supernatural

      M. R. James
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      There was no striking clock within earshot—none on the staircase, none in the stable, none in the distant church tower.  Yet it is indubitable that Mr Dillet was started out of a very pleasant slumber by a bell tolling One… M. R. James is widely considered to be one of the greatest practitioners of the

      There was no striking clock within earshot—none on the staircase, none in the stable, none in the distant church tower.  Yet it is indubitable that Mr Dillet was started out of a very pleasant slumber by a bell tolling One… M. R. James is widely considered to be one of the greatest practitioners of the

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      The Creature on the Moonlit Road: More Stories of the Supernatural
      The Creature on the Moonlit Road: More Stories of the Supernatural

      The Creature on the Moonlit Road: More Stories of the Supernatural

      M. R. James
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      ‘A master of the supernatural. I first read M. R. James as a boyin a forest rest-house, and he had me hooked on ghost storiesfor the rest of my life.’ —Ruskin Bond Mr Abney was found in his chair, his head thrown back… In his left side was a terrible lacerated wound, exposing the heart. There was no b

      ‘A master of the supernatural. I first read M. R. James as a boyin a forest rest-house, and he had me hooked on ghost storiesfor the rest of my life.’ —Ruskin Bond Mr Abney was found in his chair, his head thrown back… In his left side was a terrible lacerated wound, exposing the heart. There was no b

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      The Diary of a Nobody
      The Diary of a Nobody

      The Diary of a Nobody

      George and Weedon Grossmith
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      Why should I not publish my diary? I have often seen reminiscences of people I have never even heard of, and I fail to see—because I do not happen to be a “Somebody”—why my diary should not be interesting.’ The spoof diary of a lower-middle-class London clerk, The Diary of a Nobody 

      Why should I not publish my diary? I have often seen reminiscences of people I have never even heard of, and I fail to see—because I do not happen to be a “Somebody”—why my diary should not be interesting.’ The spoof diary of a lower-middle-class London clerk, The Diary of a Nobody 

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      The Elephant in the Temple: Tales of Beast and Man in India
      The Elephant in the Temple: Tales of Beast and Man in India

      The Elephant in the Temple: Tales of Beast and Man in India

      John Lockwood Kipling
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      From military camels and hunting cheetahs, to herding dogs and talking mynahs, animals have been living, working, playing and performing with humans in India for centuries. In this intimate book, John Lockwood Kipling writes about animals in daily Indian life, bringing alive the sights, sounds and smells of the nineteenth century. In these

      From military camels and hunting cheetahs, to herding dogs and talking mynahs, animals have been living, working, playing and performing with humans in India for centuries. In this intimate book, John Lockwood Kipling writes about animals in daily Indian life, bringing alive the sights, sounds and smells of the nineteenth century. In these

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      The Valley of Flowers: An Adventure in the Upper Himalaya
      The Valley of Flowers: An Adventure in the Upper Himalaya

      The Valley of Flowers: An Adventure in the Upper Himalaya

      Frank S. Smythe
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      ‘The predominant note was peace; not the faintest breeze ruffled the herbage and the silence was the silence of a vast ocean utterly calm, though always the sounds of the streams came to the ear as a soft, almost imperceptible cadence.’ In 1931, a party of British mountaineers—including Frank S. Smythe&

      ‘The predominant note was peace; not the faintest breeze ruffled the herbage and the silence was the silence of a vast ocean utterly calm, though always the sounds of the streams came to the ear as a soft, almost imperceptible cadence.’ In 1931, a party of British mountaineers—including Frank S. Smythe&

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      East of Suez: Stories of Love, Betrayal and Haunting from the Raj
      East of Suez: Stories of Love, Betrayal and Haunting from the Raj

      East of Suez: Stories of Love, Betrayal and Haunting from the Raj

      Alice Perrin
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      A woman’s ghost comes calling for her devoted husband; an amulet hastily given to a British officer saves him from a man-eating tiger; a happily married young woman finds herself reminiscing about someone lost for ever; an ayah sings lullabies to her imaginary charge; and an obnoxious self-made man loses his family in a flash. Writ

      A woman’s ghost comes calling for her devoted husband; an amulet hastily given to a British officer saves him from a man-eating tiger; a happily married young woman finds herself reminiscing about someone lost for ever; an ayah sings lullabies to her imaginary charge; and an obnoxious self-made man loses his family in a flash. Writ

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    Frank S. Smythe

    Frank Sydney Smythe was a British mountaineer, botanist and adventurer. Smythe, who began his mountaineering career in the Alps, joined the international Kangchenjunga expedition of 1930 which ended in failure. In 1936, he led the expedition which successfully ascended Mount Kamet, then the highest peak ever to have been climbed. Subsequently, in the 1930s, Smythe was thrice part of teams which attempted to climb Mount Everest. An accomplished photographer and a prolific writer, Smythe wrote twenty-seven books in all, the best known among which are The Kangchenjunga Adventure, Kamet Conquered and Adventures of a Mountaineer.

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