" Bringing together their stories could well be a way to remember that lost time. In the frantic pace of development that even the hill stations are undergoing, I hope at least a few haunted houses escape through the fingers of the estate developers and these age-old ghosts continue to get a few nooks and crannies to haunt. And talking of haunting, if there is one dedicated band of followers of ghosts, it has to be schoolgoing children. Schools, the older the better, seem to be rich breeding grounds for ghosts. To tell each other lurid "

― Ruskin Bond , The Laughing Skull