Rudyard Kipling

The Mark of the Beast and other Stories Rudyard Kipling

This book contains six Gothic short stories by Kipling: The Mark of the Beast, The Phantom Rickshaw, My Own True Ghost Story, The Strange Rid of Morrowbie Jukes, The Man Who Would Be King, The Finest Story in the World. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literatura, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and its youngest recipient to date.