{"id":59107,"date":"2021-11-21T22:16:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T22:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/book\/the-rupa-book-of-nightmare-tales\/"},"modified":"2023-10-04T12:24:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T12:24:45","slug":"the-rupa-book-of-nightmare-tales","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/book\/the-rupa-book-of-nightmare-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"THE RUPA BOOK OF NIGHTMARE TALES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The popularity of Ghosht Stories from the Raj resulted in a number of requests for more stories from this period. Ruskin Bond delved into his archives and came up with another entertaining collection of strange or nighmarish tales written by Englishmen who came to India and the East Indies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.<br \/>\nHere are spooks, werewolves, dacoits, assassins, man eating tigers, and head hunters and in his Introduction R B tells us why those made dogs and Englishmen went out in the mid day sun and what happened to some of them.<br \/>\nNever a dull moment and never a dull sentence in this, the eleventh of Rupa fast selling anthologies.<br \/>\nAbout Author :<br \/>\nRuskin Bond, resident of Mussoorie, is a well known writer of fiction and a raconteur par excellence. His tales and Legends from India, Angry River, Strange Men, Strange Places, The blue umbrella. A long walk for Bina and Hanuman to the rescue are also available in Rupa paperbacks.<br \/>\nThe ruskin Bonds children omnibus has been a firm favourite with young readers for several years. Ghosht stories from the Raj. The Rupa Book of Great Animal Stories, The rupa book of trade tales of Mystery and Adventure.<br \/>\nContents :<br \/>\nIntroduction<br \/>\nThe Uncharted Islands<br \/>\nThrown Away<br \/>\nthe Mark of the Beast<br \/>\nThe Ninth Year<br \/>\nA Man theory<br \/>\nThe white tiger<br \/>\nThe face of Bronze<br \/>\nthe dancing fakir<br \/>\nMaza<br \/>\nThis familier of Mine<br \/>\nThe werewolf<br \/>\nSusanna seven husbands<br \/>\nWhen glister walked<br \/>\nSi urag of the Tail<br \/>\nA Kathi Robin Hood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27107,"parent":0,"template":"","book_type":[6],"book_author":[471],"class_list":["post-59107","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","book_type-fiction","book_author-ruskin-bond"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/59107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_type?post=59107"},{"taxonomy":"book_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_author?post=59107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}