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The Mark of the Beast

By: Rudyard Kipling
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
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When a carousing Englishman disgraces the consecrated effigy of Hanuman, a leprous "Silver Man" marks him with a hideous curse. The ensuing night brings new terrors to the house of the doomed man.

Public Domain (P)2008 B.J. Harrison Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Horror Short Stories Scary Fiction
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A genuinely creepy story that compares well with the work of other masters of weird fiction, such as HP Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe. A white farmer in India is punished for his crass disrespect of a monkey god. A battle ensues between the mysterious powers of a deformed leper and the brute force of their English colonists. Rudyard Kipling is cited by horror writer Nail Gaiman as a major influence, and you can see why from this terrific little spine chiller. A crisp and well paced reading by B.J. Harrison.

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Just a shame it's such a short tale, I was genuinely captured by the story! great characters, interesting little book!

the reader was pretty good also

surprisingly good!

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