The Phantom Rickshaw And Other Ghost Stories

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Jack Pansay jilted Agnes Keith-Wessington; in Simla her yellow rickshaw comes back without a living passenger. Hear Kipling’s The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories unabridged in English: a civil servant haunted in daylight, Kitty Mannering breaking the engagement, Dr Heatherlegh calling it fever. Then Morrowbie Jukes in a crater of the living dead; a ‘true’ ghost told as a joke that will not stay funny; Carnehan and Dravot riding into Kafiristan to be kings. Listen to colonial guilt as wheels and livery. Spoken India of vice and imperial nerve, the supernatural as the bill arriving. Pansay’s doctor talking rest while the rickshaw keeps the appointment; Jukes among the unburied who will not die; Dravot crowned and killed, Carnehan crawling home with the story. Listen to empire’s unpaid invoices, spoken as chill and boast.