The Mark of the Beast

The Mark of the Beast

by Rudyard Kipling and S. T. Joshi
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 17/01/2013

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Returning to the horror story genre again and again during the first 20 years of his literary career, Rudyard Kipling produced a substantial body of work in the genre. This collection includes 17 of the best of these tales.Written in Kipling's vigorous, plain-spoken manner and gathered together for the first time in one volume, the stories vary widely in tone, style, and subject matter — from comic ghost stories ("Haunted Subalterns") to grim tales of psychological terror ("The Wandering Jew")to chilling stories of the returning dead ("The Lost Legion"). Also included are the title story, widely considered Kipling's most accomplished horror tale; "The Dream of Duncan Parrenness," the author's first tale of the supernatural; "The City of Dreadful Night," a brooding prose poem; "The Phantom Rickshaw," a forbidding tale of a man haunted by the ghost of a woman he jilted; "At the End of the Passage," which poignantly conveys the loneliness and homesickness felt by many English civil servants in India; and nine other compelling works.Selected, introduced, and edited by occult fiction authority S. T. Joshi, these tales will be welcomed by horror story fans and devotees of the celebrated English author.

ISBN:
9780486143248
9780486143248
Category:
Horror & ghost stories
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
17-01-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Dover Publications
Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865. After intermittently moving between India and England during his early life, he settled in the latter in 1889, published his novel The Light That Failed in 1891 and married Caroline (Carrie) Balestier the following year.

They returned to her home in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Kipling wrote the two Jungle Books and Captains Courageous.

He continued to write prolifically and was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 but his later years were darkened by the death of his son John at the Battle of Loos in 1915. He died in 1936.

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