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The Disturber of Traffic

Rudyard Kipling

First published 1893
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A lighthouse keeper driven mad by isolation and monotony determines to keep steamships, which he blames for streaks in the water that obsess him, out of the Indonesian strait he guards.

First published in The Atlantic Monthly, September 1891.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1893 Many Inventions Macmillan and Co. Collection 1
September 1993 Cover Lighthouse Horrors: Tales of Adventure, Suspense, and the Supernatural Down East Books Anthology 11