The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- First Published: 1885
- Type of Plot: Horror
- Time of Work: The 1880's
- Setting: A city of the living dead in the desert between Pakpattan and Mubarukpur, India
- Principal Characters: Morrowbie Jukes, Gunga Dass, Dunnoo
- Genres: Short fiction, Horror literature
- Subjects: Class conflict, Rulers, India or East Indian people, Servants, Caste systems
- Locales: India
The Story
Morrowbie Jukes's strange ride occurs when he is weakened by a fever. Baying dogs disturb his sleep. He kills one of them and displays its body, hoping to deter the other dogs from their baying. Instead, they devour the body “and, as it seemed to me, sang their hymns of thanksgiving afterwards with renewed energy.” Morrowbie tries to shoot the loudest of the dogs, but the lightheadedness that accompanies his fever makes him miss the offending dog even though he unloads both barrels of his shotgun in its direction.
Finally, Morrowbie decides to go after the...
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