#hhmunro

[sosanniv]

It’s short. It’s Edwardian.(Yes, that means someone will fidget. Someone else will sigh. Read it anyway.)Take a vitamin, settle in — it won’t take long. What Excepting Mrs. Pentherby delivers is a masterclass in manipulation:Human behavior as queen, social setting as board, and the protagonist? Calmly playing everyone like pieces.No malice. Just observation, charm, and the perfect…

[amlitlover]

SAKI's Sredni Vashtar will scare you!

H.H. Munro:"One of these days Conradin supposed he would succumb to the mastering pressure of wearisome necessary things...Without his imagination, which was rampant under the spur of loneliness, he would have succumbed long ago." https://americanliterature.com/author/hh-munro-saki/short-story/sredni-vashtar

[amlitlover]

Saki story on Groundhog Day

H.H. Murno (SAKI): "It was one of the accepted conditions of the Rectory garden party that four ladies, who usually knew very little about tennis and a great deal about the players, should sit at that particular spot and watch the game." https://americanliterature.com/author/hh-munro-saki/short-story/the-hedgehog

[amlitlover]

The Hedgehog by Saki

H.H. Munro (SAKI): "Mrs. Norbury, I shall take it as a deliberate personal affront if your clairvoyante friend sees any other ghost except that of my uncle." https://americanliterature.com/author/hh-munro-saki/short-story/the-hedgehog

[chickensinliterature]

From THE HEN by Saki

"But what has happened? Has some one been making mischief?"

"Not exactly," said Clovis; "a hen came between them."

"A hen? What hen?"

"It was a bronze Leghorn or some such exotic breed, and Dora sold it to Jane at a rather exotic price. They both go in for prize poultry, you know, and Jane thought she was going to get her money back in a large family of pedigree chickens. The bird turned out to be an abstainer from the egg habit, and I'm told that the letters which passed between the two women were a revelation as to how much invective could be got on to a sheet of notepaper."

Image: The Great Divide by Jean Bradbury