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The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories

by Rudyard Kipling

First published
1888
Reading level
Plain English
Price
Free

About the book

"The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories" by Rudyard Kipling is a collection of short stories first published in 1888. The volume presents four tales set in colonial India, ranging from supernatural hauntings to darkly adventurous encounters. A spurned lover returns as a ghost in her phantom rickshaw, mysterious billiard games echo in empty rooms, an Englishman becomes trapped in a village of the living dead, and two adventurers pursue a dangerous dream of kingship in remote Kafiristan. Each story explores the unsettling boundaries between reality and the otherworldly.

  • Ghost stories, English

Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #2806. The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories on Wikipedia.

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