[Masterworks of Fantasy 50] • The Mark of the Beast and Other Fantastical Tales

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. 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.

About the AuthorBorn 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.