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novelnovelThe Ghost Kings [The Lady of the Heavens]The Ghost Kings [The Lady of the Heavens]https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/haggard/editions/images/000/000/402/original/theGhostKingspearsonsOct1907DustJacket.jpg?1518745225The Ghost Kings is a supernatural romance concerning a lost civilization of "Ghost-people." In this adventure, the British missionary's daughter Rachel Dove is kidnapped by the Zulus and worshipped as "Queen of the He...<span style="font-style:italic;">The Ghost Kings</span> is a supernatural romance concerning a lost civilization of "Ghost-people." In this adventure, the British missionary's daughter Rachel Dove is kidnapped by the Zulus and worshipped as "Queen of the Heavens." Rudyard Kipling contributed to writing this African romance. <a href="http://www.visualhaggard.org/illustrators/6">A. C. Michael</a> illustrated a serialization of <span style="font-style:italic;">GK</span>, which ran in <span style="font-style:italic;">Pearson's Magazine</span> (C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., London) from October 1907 to June 1908. Cassell and Co., London, published the first edition on 25 September 1908. Eight illustrations by Michael accompanied this edition. Frank Lovell, New York, published the first US edition on 15 May 1909 using an alternate title: <span style="font-style:italic;">The Lady of the Heavens</span>. <h4>Further Reading</h4> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">Haggard, H. Rider. <span style="font-style:italic;">The Days of My Life, An Autobiography</span>. 2 Vols. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1926. II: 207-08.</p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">Pocock Tom. <span style="font-style:italic;">Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire</span>. London: Weidenfeld and Nicoloson, 1993. 149.</p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">Whatmore, D.E.. <span style="font-style:italic;">H Rider Haggard: A Bibliography</span>. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Co., 1987. F32, 47-48.</p>
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The Ghost Kings [The Lady of the Heavens]
The Ghost Kings is a supernatural romance concerning a lost civilization of "Ghost-people." In this adventure, the British missionary's daughter Rachel Dove is kidnapped by the Zulus and worshipped as "Queen of the Heavens." Rudyard Kipling contributed to writing this African romance.
A. C. Michael illustrated a serialization of GK, which ran in Pearson's Magazine (C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., London) from October 1907 to June 1908. Cassell and Co., London, published the first edition on 25 September 1908. Eight illustrations by Michael accompanied this edition. Frank Lovell, New York, published the first US edition on 15 May 1909 using an alternate title: The Lady of the Heavens.
Further Reading
Haggard, H. Rider. The Days of My Life, An Autobiography. 2 Vols. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1926. II: 207-08.
Pocock Tom. Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire. London: Weidenfeld and Nicoloson, 1993. 149.
Whatmore, D.E.. H Rider Haggard: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Co., 1987. F32, 47-48.
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Pearson's Magazine, vol. 24-23, no. 142
London: The Pearson Publishing Co., October 1907.
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Pearson's Magazine, vol. 24-30, no. 143
London: The Pearson Publishing Co., November 1907.
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Pearson's Magazine, vol. 24-37, no. 144
London: The Pearson Publishing Co., December 1907.
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Pearson's Magazine, vol. 25-1, no. 145
London: The Pearson Publishing Co., January 1908.
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Pearson's Magazine, vol. 25-9, no. 146
London: The Pearson Publishing Co., February 1908.
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Pearson's Magazine, vol. 25-16, no. 147
London: The Pearson Publishing Co., March 1908.
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Pearson's Magazine, vol. 25-26, no. 148
London: The Pearson Publishing Co., April 1908.
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Pearson's Magazine, vol. 25-31, no. 149
London: The Pearson Publishing Co., May 1908.
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Pearson's Magazine, vol. 25-38, no. 150
London: The Pearson Publishing Co., June 1908.
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1st UK edition
London: Cassell and Co., 1908.
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The high bank was scarce five yards away, and the wall of waters perhaps a score
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The two lions marched backwards and forwards as though they were in a cage, making a kind of whimpering noise as they went
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Noie had knelt down before the body, and with her arms thrown around its neck, was whispering into its ear
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'We shall soon see who will die,' answered the warrior with a laugh, and he sprang forward
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'She takes counsel with the Heavens, she who is their daughter,' muttered one of the indunas in a low voice
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In her hand Rachel held a little rod of white rhinoceros horn, which she used as a riding whip, and with this rod she pointed at the woman
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He passed his arms about her, drew her to him unresisting, and kissed her on the lips
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The counsellors and captains uttered a shout of rage, and two of the latter seized Ishmael by the arm, lifting their spears to plunge them into him
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'You devils, you have killed her!' gasped Mr. Dove, as lifting the pistol he fired at the Zulu nearest to him, shooting him through the body so that he sank upon the floor dying
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Rachel waited to see the man she loved fall a shattered corpse, when one of the Kaffirs bolder than the rest, struck up the barrels with his kerry
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A further instalment of 'The Ghost Kings' will appear in the March number
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Again the lightning flared and in it they saw her standing on the crest of the hut
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Then in his torment and despair, of a sudden Ishmael threw himself backwards into the dark gulf beneath. Fifty feet and more he fell to the rocks below, and where he fell, there he lay till he died
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Dingaan leapt up in his rage and terror, and seizing the bowl, hurled it from him
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'Dog!' she cried, “...darest thou speak thus of the Inkosazana?' ... and snatching the spear from Rachel’s hand, she charged at him, holding it aloft
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The captains seized Ishmael by the arm
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Dingaan leapt up in his rage and terror.
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'If you are a ghost, why have you a shadow?'
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She seemed no more, but a queen of Spirits
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He kissed her on the lips
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Such a star runs ever before the death of kings
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The two of them crept to the mouth of the cave
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