Question

How has Ruskin Bond used all elements like fear, surprise, suspense and mystery of horror story?

Answer 1

'Do you mean it was like this, sahib?' asked the watchman, and raised the lamp to his own face. The watchman had no eyes, no ears, no features at all — not even an eyebrow! And that's when the wind blew the lamp out.

The introduction of Ruskin Bond's book A Face in the Dark and Other Hauntings (of which the above excerpt is a part) begins with that well-known line from Hamlet addressed to Horatio, about how there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in philosophy. And fittingly so, if one considers what constitutes the scare in his stories: strange elements and unexplained occurrences.