Hector Hugh Munro

Over 24 of the best humorous stories ever written."The Inconsiderate Waiter", by J.M. Barrie"Mrs. Packletide's Tiger", by Saki"Curried Cow", by Ambrose Bierce"Cannibalism in the Cars", by Mark Twain"A Love Knot", by W.W. Jacobs"A Bottomless Grave", by...

Hector Hugh Munro, who wrote under the pseudonym "Saki" tells the tale of a modern werewolf."There is a wild beast in your woods" observes the artist Cunningham to his friend van Cheele. It turns out that Cunningham is right. The next day, van Cheele...

Laura is dying. She confidently predicts that she will be reincarnated as an otter. When the day before her funeral, a she-otter goes on the rampage in her arch nemesis Egbert's chicken run and flower beds, Amanda feels this is far too much of a...

Genuinely chilling narratives of paranormal phenomena, the returning dead, uncanny apparitions, sinister happenings and inexplicable events which make your blood run cold. Listen in the dark... if you dare! "What Was It?" - Fitz-James O'Brien "Laura"...

Bertie Thropplestance stands to inherit a vast fortune from his wealthy but indomitable grandmother, a fact that has not escaped the notice of every mother of a marriageable girl in the county. But old Mrs. Thropplestance has her own ideas of a...

"The Interlopers" is the story of two sworn enemies who find themselves trapped and injured under a fallen tree in a forest at night. Author - Hector Hugh Munro. Narrator - Cathy Dobson. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) is better known by the pen name Saki. He remains hugely popular as a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture.The Penance is an edgy and at times...

When Mary Hampton challenges Leonard Bilsiter to deploy his self-proclaimed Siberian magic powers to transform her into a she-wolf, nobody reckons with Clovis's cunning. Mrs. Hampton's disappearance in an Azalea bush and the coincidental appearance of...

Sixty-five short stories by the master storyteller, Saki:'Esme', 'The Match-Maker', 'Tobermory', 'Mrs. Packletide's Tiger', 'The Stampeding of Lady Bastable', 'The Background', 'Hermann the Irascible', 'The Unrest-Cure', 'The Jesting of Arlington...

When Theophil Eshley, the bovine painter, is called upon by his neighbour Adela Pingsford to remove a stray ox from her garden things go inevitably and comically wrong. No oxen are harmed in the course of this story, but sadly the same cannot be said...

We have had many novels about alternate histories, often of the 'What would have happened if Hitler had won the war' type and this is another - except that this one is set in 1913 and the 'William' of the title is that old bogeyman 'Kaiser Bill'. For...