Book description
Of a sudden I realized that he was in the grip of some almost
overpowering fear. Rudyard Kipling is best known for his novels and
poetry, but his short stories reveal a far more sinister and macabre
side to his imagination. In these three chilling and psychologically
penetrating tales, Kipling portrays hauntings, loss, madness, terrible
secrets and the darkness that lies within the human heart. This book
includes 'They', Mary Postgate and The Gardener. Rudyard Kipling was
born in Bombay in 1865. In 1871 he was brought home from India and spent
five unhappy years with a foster family in Southsea, an experience he
later drew on in The Light That Failed (1890). In 1882 Kipling started
work as a journalist in India, and while there produced a body of work,
stories, sketches and poems notably Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)
which made him an instant literary celebrity when he returned to England
in 1889. His most famous works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim
(1901) and the Just So Stories (1902). Kipling refused to accept the
role of Poet Laureate and other civil honours, but he was the first
English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize, in 1907. He died in 1936.
