He was described as being the size of a bull-buffalo, with a belly that reached the ground, and a white moon between his ears, true tokens of the man-eater, as every native of India knows. He was said to have the power of assuming different shapes, and to lure his prey by the imitation of a human voice. From ‘The White Tiger’ by Alice Perrin Selected and edited by Ruskin Bond, this collection of eerie stories is sure to set your nerves racing. Read about an unconquerable, seemingly supernatural man-eater in ‘The White Tiger’; the narrator’s perilous journey in a dilapidated coach in ‘The Phantom Coach’; Sherlock Holmes’ investigation of how a speckled band and a whistle is connected to a mysterious death in ‘The Adventure of the Speckled Band’; and Bond’s own encounter with a Jinn in ‘The Trouble with Jinns’. Ruskin Bond has been writing for over sixty years, and has now over 120 titles in print—novels, collections of stories, poetry, essays, anthologies and books for children. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, received the prestigious John Llewellyn Rhys award in 1957. He has also received the Padma Shri (1999), the Padma Bhushan (2014) and two awards from the Sahitya Akademi—one for his short stories and another for his writings for children. In 2012, the Delhi government gave him its Lifetime Achievement award.
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