Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy

"Rudyard Kipling is one of the finest writers of fantasy in the last one hundred years."-Ray Bradbury "Kipling has seen a perfect Odyssey of strange experiences."-Andrew Lang This volume collects many of the Nobel Prize-winning writer's fantastical pieces ranging from traditional ghost stories to works of psychological horror. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in Bombay, India, but was raised in England until he returned to India in 1881 as a journalist. In 1907, Kipling became the first English writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is best known for The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1902), and Just So Stories (1902), which are renowned throughout the world. Includes: The vampire The dream of Duncan Parrenness The city of dreadful night An Indian ghost story in England The phantom 'rickshaw The strange ride of Morrowbie Jukes The unlimited draw of Tick Boileau In the house of Suddhoo The Bisara of Pooree Haunted subalterns By word of mouth The recurring smash The dreitarbund Bubbling well road The sending of Dana Da My own true ghost story Sleipner, late Thurinda The man who would be king The solid muldoon Baboo Mookerji's undertaking The joker The wandering Jew The courting of Dinah Shadd The mark of the beast At the end of the passage The recrudescence of Imray The finances of the gods The finest story in the world Children of the zodiac The lost legion A matter of fact The bridge-builders The brushwood boy The tomb of his ancestors Wireless "They" With the night mail : a story of 2000 AD The house surgeon The knife and the naked chalk In the same boat As easy as A.B.C.: a tale of 2150 AD Swept and garnished Mary Postgate The village that voted the earth was flat A madonna of the trenches The wish house The gardener The eye of Allah On the gate: a tale of '16 The appeal