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The Mark of the Beast And Other Fantastical Tales (Fantasy Masterworks)

The Mark of the Beast And Other Fantastical Tales (Fantasy Masterworks)

by RudyardKipling (Author)

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 800
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 11 Jan 2007
ISBN 10: 0575077913
ISBN 13: 9780575077911
Book Overview: Neil Gaiman has written a brand new Introduction, just for this volume. #Number 49 in the Fantasy Masterworks Rudyard Kipling influenced several generations of writers with his weird and supernatural stories. Kipling was the first British Nobel Laureate for literature Kipling's animal fantasy stories, the Just-So Stories and the two volumes of The Jungle Books, are much-loved classics One of the greatest writers of English prose Millions of copies of Kipling's stories and poems have been sold through the years His vivid, brilliant short stories cross genre boundaries to explore fantasy, sf and the supernatural Edited and with an afterword by the award-winning writer and editor Stephen Jones

Author Bio
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.