La zia ha adottato un licantropo

A friend is talking about a 'beast in the woods'. But what is that beast and what has a mysterious young boy to do with it? Uncanny story with interesting twists and a peculiar best. Recommended!

A short interesting take on a werewolf in Victorian England. A lot of tongue-in-cheek, but with a strong horrific element. Quite interesting & good. I got this through Librivox on Saki's page here: https://librivox.org/author/889?prima... Well narrated & highly recommended. It can be listened to onlin Leggi tutto

I have arranged my thoughts into a haiku: "Ensnared already, Casualties of vanity Make for easy prey."

This short story appears in numerous anthologies since it is long out of copyright and can therefore be reproduced at no cost. For me it has the flavor of a Rudyard Kipling Jungle Book tale, only told about an adult male in a British colonial village of indeterminate place who discovers a werewolf i Leggi tutto

This story was really good. A bit of a werewolf story with a twist. Enjoyable but not as good as other stories by this author. In all it is entertaining. 3 stars.

First published in The Westminster Gazette in 1909 and then in Saki's second volume of stories 'Reginald in Russia' in 1911 it is, I believe, the first of Saki's first rate, astounding and guaranteed to live on, short story. At their finest his stories have an anarchic, subversive message that treat Leggi tutto