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

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

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 name H H Munro is obscured beneath the literary mantle of his nom de plume; Saki. A writer of his times, the stories perfectly portray society’s whims and tastes in a delicate yet at times, barbed humour. A divine wit who conjured words into quite extraordinary works.

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.

The Cotswold Explorer brings you another collection of spooky tales ranging from haunted houses and bounding werewolves, to tongue-in-cheek tales of reincarnation....

For Mr and Mrs Thackenbury it seems like there are too many holidays. They start talking about the hypocrisy behind all these holidays, such as...

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....

Von 1973 bis 1990 strahlte Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) die beliebte Hörfunksendung "Nur für starke Nerven" (ab 1987 unter dem Namen...

Here are 12 specially selected tales by one of the masters of this miniature art, Saki (H.H Munro). They range from the comic deception of "The Schartz Metterklume Method" to "The Cobweb", a subtle meditation on life, change and death....

The Toys of Peace and Other Papers by "Saki" (H. H. Munro) is a collection of 33 "papers" or short stories, which were originally published separately in various journals and later issued in one volume in 1919, three years after the writer's death in the Great War....

Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches was published in 1910 and was the second of Saki's collections of short stories. It consists of 15 stories and contains two of his most famous tales: “Gabriel Ernest” and “The Reticence of Lady Anne”....

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 Baker’s Dozen - A collection of 13 classic Christmas stories. Listen for more....

Saki's blend of stories, featuring the witty and sometimes Machiavellian Clovis, range from supernatural and sinister to hilarious comedy....

Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage....

'The Lost Sanjak' is the last-minute account by a condemned man, speaking to the prison chaplain, telling the astounding story of how he came to be condemned....

Here are legendary director, producer, screenwriter, author, and actor Orson Welles' historic interpretations of excerpts from classic literature....

The Penance is an edgy and at times horrifying tale about a normally amiable man who has killed the cat belonging to his neighbour's children....