Beasts and Super-Beasts (Annotated)

Beasts and Super-Beasts gathers Saki's brilliantly compressed tales of manners, mischief, and menace, set within the brittle elegance of Edwardian society. Moving between drawing-room satire, fable, black comedy, and the uncanny, the collection exposes the savagery beneath polite convention. Stories such as "The Open Window," "Sredni Vashtar," and "The Story-Teller" exemplify its artful reversals,...