Read and listen to The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories
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.
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The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories is in the public domain, so its text can be read in Gutenvox. The app provides transparent on-device synthetic narration, not a human audiobook recording, and can highlight spoken words on the page while keeping your place between reading and listening.
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