"Historietas Malignas" (1920), a collection by Peruvian author Clemente Palma is presented in a new English translation as MALIGNANT STORIES, along with 15 additional pieces from Palma's career. Here you will find the extended supernatural novella "MORS EX VITA (Death From Life)", the darkly sardonic fairy tale "The Best Gift," the surreal and phantasmagoric "A Strange Walk," and the nasty conte cruel of "Andronicus" among others, along with an afterword from the Translator. CONTENTS MORS EX VITA (Death From Life) The Cigarette Man The Adventure Of The Man Who Was Never Born In The Wagon Fears The Judge's Granddaughter A Strange Walk Andrónicus Love Note The Walpurgis Carnival Of Flowers Dmitri The Defeat Of Venus The Drunkard's Creed Drunken Anacreon The Best Gift The Smoke Darlings The Old Fauns Praise And Rant