Saki

H.H. Munro (Saki) is one of the undisputed masters of the short story. In this complete compendium, the full gamut of his subjects and themes is experienced. His stories are imbued with humorous satire, biting irony, and often the macabre....

A glittering collection of some of the world's finest short stories....

Classic stories from the original masters of horror, including Edgar Allan Poe, HP Lovecraft and Charles Dickens....

Our ‘fight of flight’ response is something hardwired into the primitive part of our brain. In this volume people struggle valiantly to survive and to exist no matter the extent of the threat they face....

Saki was the pen-name of Hector Hugh Munro. One of the wittiest of all short-story writers, he was born in 1870 in Burma where his father, a Scots army officer, was stationed....

Presented here are the favorites (including many of the adventures of Clovis): "The Open Window", "Clovis on Parental", "The Lumber-Room", "Sredni Vahtar", and more....

Imagine you are hunting an enemy who happens to be your neighbor, and suppose that your neighbor is hunting you....

A wolf howls through the forests of Transylvania, the murky graveyards of H.P.Lovecraft....

The Interlopers is the story of two sworn enemies who find themselves trapped and injured under a fallen tree in a forest at night....

A superb anthology of 40 great classic humorous stories....

A spine-tingling collection of classic ghost stories – a perfect way to pass those long winter nights.....

There are 29 stories in this collection, each one exquisitely crafted, totally vicious and very, very funny....

The inevitable is understood by each and every one of us who faces the final calling. So too are the effects on those left behind. The memories are there but the empty space, the void can never be refilled. It remains a dark, unreliable pit of loneliness....

Unknowingly, a man arrives on the anniversary of the “Great Tragedy” that led to his host having her large French window wide open onto the lawn on an October afternoon....

Celebrate the magic and warmth of the holiday season with The Essential Christmas Collection, a curated anthology of timeless stories that capture the spirit of Christmas.

The Chronicles of Clovis, which was published in 1911, was the third of Saki's collections of short stories. The character of Clovis Sangrail is vain, sarcastic, and self-regarding....

Classic spine-tingling tales to thrill you including Tobermory by Saki and The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe....

This triumphant final volume of Spinechillers begins with Doug Bradley's personal guide to the writers and the history of the stories....

Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, J M Barrie, W W Jacobs and many others bring their literary heft to bear in as calculating a way as any killer could....

Satire, Humor and Irony in some cases have been regarded as the most effective source to understand a society, the oldest form of social study ...