Darkness

A boy who can predict the exact date a person will die... An elderly woman who knows that death is close, but learns how to cheat it... A child with a dangerous friend who happens to be invisible... A ghost who can t stop reliving his suicide over and over again... People you ll wish you never have to meet, and stories you ll never forget. Skilfully translated into English for the very first time, these chilling tales from master storyteller Ratnakar Matkari are bound to keep readers of all ages up at night. With every page you turn, you ll be looking over your shoulder to make sure no one s there. Look again. Maybe there is!

About the Author

Ratnakar Matkari (born 1938) is a Marathi writer, a movie and play producer-director, and a self-taught artist. He worked as a columnist for newspapers and magazines in the 1970s. Matkari s works thus far include a number of plays, collections of one-act plays, books of his short stories, novels, and poems and plays for children. He has received twenty-one awards from different institutions including the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Natya Parishad, the Maharashtra State Government, and the Sangeet Natak Akademi. Vikrant Pande started translating from the Marathi with Ranjit Desai s classic novel Raja Ravi Varma, the story of India s most celebrated painter. He has since translated Milind Bokil s Shala, N.S. Inamdar s Rau: The Great Love Story of Bajirao Mastani and Shahenshah: The Life of Aurangzeb, Ranjit Desai s Shivaji: The Great Maratha and Karna: The Great Warrior. He is currently a vice chancellor with TeamLease Skills University, Vadodara.

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