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Tangled Web UK: New Fantasy Masterworks Titles 07
Rudyard Kipling The Mark Of The Beast And Other Fantastical Tales Pbk published January 2007 by Gollancz at £7.99 ISBN: 0575077913

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 f 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 of the eventual half-accomplished transformation of that victim into a leopard being things which no reader is likely to forget.’ The Series
Fantasy Masterworks is a library of some of the greatest, most original, and most influential fantasy ever written. These are the books which, along with Tolkien, Peake and others, shaped modern fantasy.
With an Introduction by Neil Gaiman and Afterword by Stephen Jones.
‘Rudyard Kipling is one of the finest writers of fantasy in the last one hundred years’ Ray Bradbury
‘As of what Kipling wrote about nineteenth-century Anglo-India ... it is not only the best but almost the only literary picture we have’ George Orwell
About The Author
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in Bombay, India, but raised in England until he returned to India in 1881 as a journalist and local newspaper editor. In 1907, Kipling became the first English writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. His incredible popularity before the Great War waned with the waning of British Imperialism, but a critical revaluation of his work is underway. Today he is best known as the author of many classics including The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1902) and Just So Stories (1902). Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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