- Paperback: 800 pages
- Publisher: Gollancz (Jan 11 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0575077913
- ISBN-13: 978-0575077911
- Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 4.8 x 19.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 540 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #230,519 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Rudyard Kipling was a major figure of English literature, who used the full power and intensity of his imagination and his writing ability in his excursions into fantasy. Kipling, one of England's greatest writers, was born in Bombay. He was educated in England, but returned to India in 1882. He began writing fantasy and supernatural stories set in his native continent, such as 'The Phantom Rickshaw' and 'The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes', and his most famous weird story is 'The Mark of the Beast' (1890), about a man cursed to transform into a were-leopard. This Masterwork, edited by Stephen Jones, Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed anthologist, collects all Kipling's weird fiction for the first time; the stories range from traditional ghostly tales to psychological horror.
About the Author
Born in Bombay, India, then raised in England from the age of five, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is today best known as the author of such classics of literature as The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1902) and Just-So Stories (1902). Kipling was the first English writer to win the Nobel Prize, in 1907, for literature.
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SCARY STORIES..., Jan 6 2009
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All the books in the Fantasy Masterworks series are excellent, buyer gets a lot of stuff for a small price. The names of the writers, in this case Rudyard Kipling, speak for themselves as to the quality of the stories. And Kipling's THE MARK OF THE BEAST was well chosen as the title story, it really is a masterwork of that kind of story, and that scene of the sound of a wolf's howl coming from where it should not have come from set my hair on end just as much as it did the characters in the story. Also, as an interesting addition many of the stories are set in the India of British colonialism and the reader gets a real feeling of that time and place.
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