Ratna M. Vajracharya is the pseudonym of a reclusive writer who arrived in Britain from the Indian Sub-Continent in December 1980.
His Tales were written over the course of eight years for a small audience who gathered together in Cambridge to hear one of the stories narrated at the time of both the Winter and Summer Solstice. Vajracharya regards these critical days in the solar calendar as holding particular importance for those with an interest in the occult - turning points in the eternal struggle between Light and Darkness. These stories belong to a tradition stretching back to M.R. James, and it is appropriate that the stories have been read aloud in the university city where James himself narrated his ghost stories.
Vajracharya's writing evokes a powerful sense of place - whether it be the Hebrides or the Himalayas, a Cambridge College or a Cathedral Close. But every place groans beneath the weight of human frailty, sin and wickedness. The reader will encounter innocence and goodwill, acts of charity and moral courage; but there is also pride, greed, venality, hatred, and the torment of some deep, dark fear. Death, decay, and a minatory, stalking evil wait just around the corner.
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