Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) is a classic of English literature, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907, who owes his fame primarily to the romance that permeates his poetry collections. The fourth volume of his collected works includes collections of short stories: “Rickshaw- Ghost”, written in the manner of a “scary story” with mysterious content, not inferior in intensity to the stories of Edgar Allan Poe; “Fairy Tales and Legends” and “Works of the Day”, which are among the best written by the master of elegant realistic and fantastic short stories, who also has a unique way of talking with children.