A young woman comes out to India to live with her brother and his wife, and the family takes a handsome house that is cheap for a reason. The title story is followed by more tales of Anglo-Indian life and the uncanny, among them The Khitmatgar, The Dâk Bungalow at Dakor and The Other Miss Browne.
Ghost stories by an Irish novelist who knew India well; their colonial outlook is that of the 1890s. Download the free EPUB.