Saki, Hector Hugh Munro,

Hector Hugh Munro, better known by the pen name Saki, and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. Wikipedia

Born: December 18, 1870, Sittwe, Myanmar (Burma)

Died: November 14, 1916, Beaumont-Hamel, France

Nickname: H. H. Munro

Full name: Hector Hugh Munro

Quotes

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

A new addition to Everyman's Library--a selection of 53 darkly witty, whimsical, and macabre short stories by Saki, an acknowledged master of the form...

"I always say beauty is only sin deep."
--from "Reginald's Choir Treat" included in SELECTED STORIES by Hector Hugh Munro

Saki’s dazzling tales manage the remarkable feat of being anarchic and urbane at the same time. Studded with Wildean epigrams and featuring well-contrived plots and surprise endings, his stories gleefully skewer the pompous hypocrisies of upper class Edwardian society. But they go beyond mere satire, raising dark humor to extremes of entertaining outrageousness that have rarely since been matched. Saki’s elegantly mischievous young heroes sow chaos in their wake without breaking a sweat, and are occasionally joined by werewolves, tigers, eavesdropping house pets, and casually murderous children. This selection includes such famous stories as “Tobermory,” “The Open Window,” “Sredni Vashtar,” “Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger,” “The Schartz-Metterklume Method,” and many more. READ an excerpt here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/selected-stories-by-s…/