Rudyard Kipling's vast output included many fantastical stories, including classics like 'The Phantom Rickshaw' and 'The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes'. His work ranged from traditional ghostly tales to psychological horror, and even early science fiction. 'The Mark of the Beast' inspired many, including H.P. Lovecraft, who wrote: "The naked leper-priest who mewed like an otter, of the spots which appeared on the chest of the man that priest cursed, of the growing carnivorousness . . . and the eventual half-accomplished transformation of that victim into a leopard being things which no reader is likely to forget".
| INTRODUCTION |
Neil Gaiman |
| THE VAMPIRE |
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| THE DREAM OF DUNCAN PARRENNESS |
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| THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT |
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| AN INDIAN GHOST STORY IN ENGLAND |
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| THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW |
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| THE STRANGE RIDE OF MORROWBIE JUKES |
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| THE UNLIMITED DRAW OF TICK BOILEAU |
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| IN THE HOUSE OF SUDDHOO |
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| THE BISARA OF POOREE |
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| HAUNTED SUBALTERNS |
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| BY WORD OF MOUTH |
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| THE RECURRING SMASH |
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| THE DREITARBUND |
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| BUBBLING WELL ROAD |
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| THE SENDING OF DANA DA |
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| MY OWN TRUE GHOST STORY |
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| SLEIPNER, LATE THURINDA |
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| THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING |
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| THE SOLID MULDOON |
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| BABOO MOOKERJI'S UNDERTAKING |
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| THE JOKER |
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| THE WANDERING JEW |
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| THE COURTING OF DINAH SHADD |
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| THE MARK OF THE BEAST |
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| AT THE END OF THE PASSAGE |
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| THE RECRUDESCENCE OF IMRAY |
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| THE FINANCES OF THE GODS |
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| THE FINEST STORY IN THE WORLD |
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| CHILDREN OF THE ZODIAC |
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| THE LOST LEGION |
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| A MATTER OF FACT |
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| THE BRIDGE-BUILDERS |
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| THE BRUSHWOOD BOY |
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| THE TOMB OF HIS ANCESTORS |
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| WIRELESS |
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| 'THEY' |
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| WITH THE NIGHT MAIL: A STORY OF 2000 A.D. |
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| THE HOUSE SURGEON |
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| THE KNIFE AND THE NAKED CHALK |
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| IN THE SAME BOAT |
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| AS EASY AS A.B.C.: A TALE OF 2150 A.D. |
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| SWEPT AND GARNISHED |
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| MARY POSTGATE |
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| THE VILLAGE THAT VOTED THE EARTH WAS FLAT |
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| A MADONNA OF THE TRENCHES |
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| THE WISH HOUSE |
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| THE GARDENER |
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| THE EYE OF ALLAH |
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| ON THE GATE: A TALE OF '16 |
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| THE APPEAL |
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AFTERWORD:
RUDYARD KIPLING: A LIFE IN STORIES |
Stephen Jones |
Reviews
"A generous sampling of Kipling's output, no matter what the genre. There is a cheerful Neil Gaiman preface and an informative and efficient afterword by Stephen Jones . . . This generous book (at nearly 800 pages, it is almost too large, in the hand, to read comfortably) gives us—especially those with a particular interest in speculative fiction—an opportunity to reacquaint ourselves with his work."
—William Mingin
STRANGE HORIZONS, April 23, 2007
"The work collected in The Mark of the Beast is a reminder that . . . Kipling is one of the finest short-story-writers in the English language."
—Roz Kaveney
TIME OUT, March 28-April 3, 2007
