Ghosts, Supernatural and Tales of the Uncanny

If you're looking for a delightfully eerie escape, "Satyajit Ray’s Ghosts, Supernatural and Tales of the Uncanny" is a ticket to the shadowy crossroads where curiosity meets the uncanny. This classic, collectable edition bundles Ray's most memorable ghost stories, originally penned for the Bengali children’s magazine Sandesh, and brings them to anew generation—complete with the master’s own illustrations that are as evocative as the tales themselves.

- Satyajit Ray

Ray's ghosts aren't just rattling chains and slamming doors; they're phantoms of the mind, lurking in the corners of guilt, regret, and the unresolved mysteries of the human heart. The stories are a parade of haunted houses, sinister doppelgangers, and shapeshifting spirits. In one chilling tale, a stranded writer is haunted by a scarecrow that grows disturbingly familiar, leading him to confront a wrong from his past—a ghost story that’s as much about conscience as it is about the supernatural. In “Anath Babu’s Terror” and “Mr Brown's Cottage,” curi