Question

How does ruskin bond create an atmosphere of strangeness, mystery and supernaturalism in the story a face in the dark

Answer 1

One late night, the key character Mr Oliver, a school teacher sees a boy who has a face without eyes, ears, nose or anything normally present on a human face.

Scared out of his wits, he runs from there and bumps into a watchman with a lantern. When Mr Oliver tells him of his encounter, the watchman lifts the lantern and asks him if the former’s face was like the face the latter saw. To his horror, Mr Oliver finds the watchman’s face to be exactly the same as that of the boy he saw.

  

All these bring a sense of strangeness, mystery and supernaturalism in the minds of the reader of the story A Face in the Dark.