The Phantom ‘Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories

A procession passes the foot of Pansay’s bed, but his doctor calls it a delusion. Pansay knows better—or believes he does.

In colonial India, where the close-knit English community can make every kindness and every slight impossible to escape, Pansay is laid low by fever and haunted by the memory of Agnes Keith-Wessington. He has spurned her love; now, as he courts Kitty Mannering, a white face in a black-and-white ‘rickshaw keeps returning to his sight. Is the apparition born of illness and guilt, as his doctor insists, or has something crossed over from the Dark World? Kipling’s 1888 collection gathers this eerie tale with other stories of uncanny encounters and dangerous ambitions. How far can Pansay trust his own eyes—and what is waiting in the night?

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