A billiard hall that gets late-night visits from a deceased patron. A dead old lover who has returned to haunt in a phantom rickshaw. If you love to get the spooks from a well-written ghost story, a reading session of four tales of horror, all from different locations along the Grand Trunk Road, might add to the chills.

Akshat Nigam, who teaches creative writing and is a professional storyteller, and Shruti Mishra, an actor and movement coach, will present four stories In collaboration with Readings in the Shed, a city-based written-word initiative. These include Rudyard Kipling's The Phantom Rickshaw and My Own True Ghost Story, The Sandstone Past by Sehba Sarwar and The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce. This reading has been organised by Bhagirathi Raman, an independent cultural facilitator, as part of Safarnama, a monthly art, culture and literature series that focuses on the historic road.