Indian Ghost Stories

Indian Ghost Stories is by S. Mukerji, and its contents list stories titled His Dead Wife's Photograph, The Major's Lease, The Open Door and What Uncle Saw. The preface to the first edition says the writer does not know whether writing ghost stories is a mistake. The preface says most readers will like a ghost story in which towards the end it is found that the ghost was really a cat or a dog or a mischievous boy.

One story shows an Emperor lying stretched full length on the carpet beside a big table littered with papers and military documents, while two of the guards endeavoured to revive him. A story about Mr. Anderson has him tell a Halwâi that he was very hungry and wanted something to eat, and the sweets brought out held any amount of petroleum. A story called The Messenger of Death begins with the remark that we have often been told how some of us receive in an unlooked-for manner an intimation of death some time before that incident does actually occur.