The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories

The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2017-08-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1387148869

The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, also known as The Phantom 'Rickshaw & other Eerie Tales, is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling, first published in 1888. The Phantom 'Rickshaw After an affair with a Mrs. Agnes Keith-Wessington in Simla, the narrator, Jack, repudiates her and eventually becomes engaged to Miss Kitty Mannering. Yet Mrs. Wessington continually reappears in Jack's life, begging him to reconsider, insisting that it was all just a mistake. But Jack wants nothing to do with her and continues to spurn her. Eventually Mrs. Wessington dies, much to Jack's relief. However, some time thereafter he sees her old rickshaw and assumes that someone has bought it. Then, to his astonishment, the rickshaw and the men pulling it pass through a horse, revealing themselves to be phantoms, bearing the departed ghost of Mrs. Wessington... Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy

Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 912
Release: 2008-11-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 160598664X

From ghost stories to psychological suspense, the complete horror and dark fantasy stories of Rudyard Kipling. Rudyard Kipling, a major figure of English literature, used the full power and intensity of his imagination and his writing ability in his excursions into fantasy. Kipling is considered one of England's greatest writers, but was born in Bombay. He was educated in England, but returned to India in 1882, where he began writing fantasy and supernatural stories set in his native continent: "The Phantom Rickshaw," "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes," and his most famous horror story, "The Mark of the Beast" (1890). This masterwork collection, edited by Stephen Jones (Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed anthologist) for the first time collects all of Kipling's fantastic fiction, ranging from traditional ghostly tales to psychological horror.

Strange Tales

Strange Tales
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2006
Genre: Fantasy fiction, English
ISBN: 9781840225327

Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book, was also a master of the short story in which he was able to combine the strange and unnerving in order to draw the reader into the world of his own dark imaginings.This collection presents the best of these strange tales in which ghosts, monsters and inexplicable happenings abound.

Indian Tales

Indian Tales
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Total Pages: 802
Release: 1899
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

His name was Charlie Mears; he was the only son of his mother who was a widow and he lived in the north of London coming into the City every day to work in a bank. He was twenty years old and suffered from aspirations.

Phantom Rickshaw & Other Eerie Tales

Phantom Rickshaw & Other Eerie Tales
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2011-12-11
Genre:
ISBN: 075511731X

This brings together four of Kipling's most-loved stories. They deal with events that can't quite be explained away. Powerful, exotic and extravagant, these tales are rated by some to be the best stories Kipling ever wrote, with 'The Man Who Would Be King' being hailed as the finest story in the English language.