The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, also known as The Phantom 'Rickshaw & other Eerie Tales, is a collection of short stories first published in 1888,by Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936) who was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. The book includes the following short stories: The phantom 'rickshaw which is the author’s own true ghost story ;The strange ride of Morrowbie Jukes who would be king - The finest story in the world. The Phantom 'Rickshaw is about emotional entanglement, After an affair with a Mrs. Agnes Keith-Wessington in Simla, the hero named Jack repudiates her and eventually becomes engaged to Miss Kitty Mannering. Yet Mrs. Wessington continually reappears in Jack's life, begging him to reconsider. But Jack remains unmoved and continues to spurn her. Eventually Mrs. Wessington dies, Jack breathes a sigh of relief. However, some time later he sees her old rickshaw and assumes that someone has bought it. to his astonishment, the rickshaw and the men pulling it pass through a horse, revealing themselves to be phantoms, bearing the departed ghost of Mrs. Wessington...
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