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A Season of Ghosts is a collection of nine spine-chilling short stories and a novella by master storyteller, Ruskin Bond. Summary of the Book The stories in A Season of Ghosts are set amidst the mists and magic of the Himalayan ranges. Bond ventures into the supernatural and churns out some finely crafted tales of horror and mystery for his ardent fans. Every story in the collection is unique and features impressive characters and uncanny encounters. The book comprises of stories like On Fairy Hill, The Prize, The Black Cat, The Rakshasas and Wilson's Bridge. Ruskin Bond transfers the readers to the eerie and foggy settings of the mountains and introduces them to the world of the occult and paranormal. About Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He has been writing novels, poems, essays and short stories for over forty years now. He was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957, The Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 and the Padma Shri in 1999. He was also honored with a Life Time Achievement Award by the Government of Delhi in 2012. His works include The Room on the Roof, Vagrants in the Valley, Scenes from a Writer's Life, A Flight of Pigeons, Landour Days – A writers Journal, The Sensualist, The Road To The Bazaar, and The Panther's Moon, only to name a very few.