KIPLING'S FANTASY STORIES by Kipling, Rudyard (presented by John Brunner) - 1992

New York: Tor Books - Tom Doherty Associates, 1992. (xiv) 206 pp. Blue boards lettered in silver on the spine. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; price intact; small ink mark on the upper edge of the text block; ink mark and some discolouring on the endpapers. Dj art by Bryn Barnard. Said Robert Bloch about these stories, "The rediscovered riches of Kipling's finest fantastic fiction." And Terry Pratchett, "Genuine fantasy, from the time when you didn't need all these new fangled wizards and dragons." This story collection contains: By Word of Mouth; The Finances of the Gods; The Finest Story in the World; The Children of the Zodiac; The Bridge Builders; The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo; They; The House Surgeon; The Knife and the Naked Chalk; The Village that Voted the Earth Was Flat; The Gardner; and When Earth's Last Picture is Painted. Kipling was above all a superb story-teller. Whether dealing with the world of men or of animals, or with the idiosyncrasies of metal and machinery, he kept up a high level of excitement and suspense. Some the movies from his stories: The Jungle Book; The Man Who Would Be King; Captains Courageous; Kim; and The Mark of the Beast. And then there was the television series, The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling. At the age of 42, in 1907, Rudyard Kipling won a Nobel Prize for Literature, the youngest recipient to date, and the first English language author to get it. And he produced an amazing body of work, short stories, poetry, novels and assorted non-fiction.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Bryn Barnard;. 8vo. Book.