Creeping Shadows

The stories in Creeping Shadows range widely across time and place. They take the reader to a teahouse in ancient China, a brothel in nineteenth-century Calcutta, a forest lodge in Bankura, an old mansion in Bangladesh and a university campus in present-day Delhi.

Each one begins as an ordinary human story and ends with a sudden, unexpected twist. Aruna Chakravarti's collection is made up of tales of shadows, tingles and chills, the kind that raise the hair on your neck.