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....

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....

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

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.

In these selections, an animal plays an important role in the action or plot of the story. The animals in these stories are real or are stand-ins for...

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....

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

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.

A charming, heart-felt collection of Christmas stories and poems that will delight the entire family....

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....

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....

One of the most enduring themes in literature through the ages has been the internal conflict between two sides of a single character....

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

A splendid collection of seafarers' tales....

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

Over twenty hours of the best humorous stories ever written....

Great Horror Stories is a vintage collection of some of the finest ghost tales....

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

Sir Lulworth Quayne discusses with his nephew the threat posed by the suffragette movement in this satirical short story by Saki. This collection of...