My Lawfully Wedded Husband and Other Stories

Beware the office ghost - or the seemingly boring husband who might just find a most macabre way of doing something different...

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Twelve spine-chilling stories from a writer whose sleight of hand with black humour is hard to match. In A Brief Lesson in Trust, Geeti learns the hard way that the most reliable girl in school is not always what she seems; in St. George and the Dragon, Mr George, the archetypal government clerk finds a fiendishly clever way to outstmart his corrupt boss while The Howling Waves of Tranquebar takes us to this tiny Danish settlement of yore where an innocuous-looking beer mug still has strange powers of destruction. These and other stories in this collection entertain, amuse - but always end with a twist in the tale that leaves a few goosebumps.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 225 pages

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