The Mark of the Beast
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The Mark of the Beast
Narrated by:
Cathy Dobson
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Narrated by:
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Cathy Dobson
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Rudyard Kipling
About this listen
Fleete, a relative newcomer to India, becomes extremely drunk on New Year's Eve and on the way home desecrates the temple of the monkey-god Hanuman, by stubbing out his cigar on the statue of the deity. A mysterious leper appears and bites Fleete on the chest, leaving a strange mark. Another priest warns Fleete that Hanuman has not yet finished with him.
During the next day, Fleete's behaviour becomes stranger and stranger. He gnaws ravenously on raw meat, grovels in the earth of the garden and begins to howl like a wolf. His companions resort to extreme and terrible measures to try to get the spell revoked.
Public Domain (P)2014 Red Door AudiobooksCritic reviews
"For pure horror, this tale is, perhaps, unmatched in English litrature..." (Frederick Knowles)
"…Mr. Kipling passes, as he occasionally does, the bounds of decorum, and displays a love of the crudely horrible in its disgusting details; but the fascination of the story is incontestable." (Athanaeum)
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