Synopsis ‘Jackals howled dismally, foraging for bones and offal down in the khud below the
butcher’s shop. Pasand was unperturbed by the sound…’
Nowadays, we are often assured by the cool touch of technology when confronted with fear. Help
is just a call away. But the creatures of the dark await in the shadows, laughing at our foolishness,
for their powers transcend those of man’s modern gadgets.
Could Pasand, a man of the millennium, ever think that his cell phone would be of no help as
he is caught in the clutches of the family in the graveyard? Could Harley Warren, a researcher of
forbidden subjects, ever imagine that the telephone he was using to keep in touch with his friend
as he explored the dark depths of a sepulchre would be useless in the face of danger?
These and other elements of the night find place in this book compiled by India’s favourite author,
Ruskin Bond. Comprising stories by Rudyard Kipling, H.H. Munro, Bram Stoker and others,
Night of the Millennium will chill you to the bone!
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Binding: PaperBack
About the author
Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist.
He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India.
In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children's literature.
He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie.
