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The Phantom Rickshaw And Other Ghost Stories

Author
Rudyard Kipling
Language
English
Length
114 pages
ISBN
9781909676466
Published
15 July 2013
Imprint
Fantastica
  • Kipling
  • Ghost
  • ghost stories
  • paranormal
  • adventure
  • apparitions
  • goblins
  • magic

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Rudyard Kipling’s India-set gothic classics expose imperial hubris as an inescapable haunting. In Simla’s daylight, Jack Pansay is pursued by the ghostly rickshaw of the woman he discarded. Morrowbie Jukes gets trapped in a desert pit of the living dead, while Dravot and Carnehan chase a crown they cannot keep. From bungalow humor to social X-rays, these tales show sin returning like traffic—where the imperial nerve meets a force it cannot administer.

Author

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was one of the supreme storytellers in English — a Nobel laureate whose Jungle Books, Kim, and Just So Stories made childhood myth out of British India and the wider imperial world. He wrote with an unmatched ear for speech, rhythm, and craft: animals that argue like people, boys who learn the roads, ballads that stick in the mind.

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