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The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories

Rudyard Kipling

  • Fantasy
  • Book language: English
  • 111 pages

A collection of ghost stories by Rudyard Kipling, many set in British India. The tales explore the supernatural and the uncanny, often with a quiet, unsettling atmosphere. Listen for Kipling's vivid storytelling and his portrait of colonial life and its shadows.

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THE PHANTOM ‘RICKSHAW
AND OTHER GHOST STORIES
By Rudyard Kipling
Contents
THE PHANTOM ‘RICKSHAW
May no ill dreams disturb my rest,
Nor Powers of Darkness me molest.
—Evening Hymn.
One of the few advantages that India has over England is
a great Knowability. After five years’ service a man is
directly or indirectly acquainted with the two or three
hundred Civilians in his Province, all the Messes of ten
or twelve Regiments and Batteries, and some fifteen

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Contents

  1. THE PHANTOM ‘RICKSHAW AND OTHER GHOST STORIES
  2. Contents
  3. THE PHANTOM ‘RICKSHAW
  4. MY OWN TRUE GHOST STORY
  5. THE STRANGE RIDE OF MORROWBIE JUKES
  6. THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING
  7. “THE FINEST STORY IN THE WORLD”
  8. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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