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....

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

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

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

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

Framton Nuttle moves to the country to improve his health. His sister insists that he get to know his neighbors....

The delicious, biting wit of Saki's short stories satirizing Edwardian high society are some of the funniest and most delightful exquisite literary miniatures....

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

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....

A terrifying collection of classic werewolf stories, ranging from ancient legends to Victorian and Edwardian adaptations on the theme....

Another collection of 16 classic tales of the macabre and supernatural by some of the best-known writers in these genres....

A selection of stories to entertain for when you have a spare 10 minutes....

The human race prides itself on being the most organised of animals. We manage the fate of all other species. All other animals bow to our control or suffer....

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

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....

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....

Usually reputed as the most beautiful region in the whole of England, join Robin Shuckburgh as he delves beneath the picturesque surface of the Cotswolds into the gruesome, dark depths. This is a collection of wonderfully ghastly tales from a range of classic authors....

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....

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....

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.