A spiritualist in an Indian household is regarded as a fake when he tries to remove a relative from a supposed danger by means of a spiritual possession.
First published in The Civil and Military Gazette, April 30, 1886.
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| 1888 |
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Plain Tales from the Hills | Thacker, Spink and Co. | Collection | |3 |
| April 1899 | Plain Tales from the Hills | Doubleday & McClure | Collection | 147 | |
| 1909 | Modern English | The Review of Reviews Co. | Anthology | 28 | |
| 1965 |
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Phantoms and Fantasies: 20 Tales | Doubleday | Collection | 236 |
| January 1987 |
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The Complete Supernatural Stories of Rudyard Kipling | W. H. Allen | Collection | 63 |
| November 2000 |
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The Mark of the Beast and Other Horror Tales | Dover Publications | Collection | 47 |
| February 2007 |
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The Mark of the Beast and Other Fantastical Tales | Gollancz / Orion | Collection | 76 |
| January 2008 |
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Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy | Pegasus Books | Collection | |76 |
| November 2008 |
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Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy | Pegasus Books | Collection | |76 |
| April 2009 |
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Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy | Pegasus Books / SFBC | Collection | |
| 2010 |
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Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy | Fall River Press | Collection | 76 |
| November 2010 |
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The Mark of the Beast and Other Fantastical Tales | Gollancz / Orion | Collection | |
| March 2011 |
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Plain Tales from the Hills | Penguin Books | Collection | 115 |
| May 2014 |
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Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy | Pegasus Books | Collection | |76 |
| February 2015 |
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The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows | Penguin Books | Collection | 23 |