Known British writer Hector Hugh Munro under pen name Saki published his witty and sometimes bitter short stories in collections, such as The Chronicles of Clovis (1911). His sometimes macabre satirized Edwardian society and culture. People consider him a master and often compare him to William Sydney Porter and Dorothy Rothschild Parker. His tales feature delicately drawn characters and finely judged narratives. "The Open Window," perhaps his most famous, closes with the line, "Romance at short notice was her specialty," which thus entered the lexicon. Newspapers first and then several volumes published him as the custom of the time. His works include * a full-length play, The Watched Pot , in collaboration with Charles Maude; * two one-act plays; * a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire , the only book under his own name; * a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington ; * the episodic The Westminster Alice , a parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland ; * and When William Came: A Story of London under the Hohenzollerns , an early alternate history. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, and Joseph Rudyard Kipling, influenced Munro, who in turn influenced Alan Alexander Milne, Sir Noel Pierce Coward, and Pelham Grenville Wodehouse.
Series
Books
Ministers of Grace
2013
The Best Short Stories of Saki
2008
The Collected Short Stories of Saki
1930
Filboid Studge, The Story of a Mouse That Helped
1911
Surprising Stories by Saki
22 Tales With Twists
1996
Saki
Selected Stories
2017
Gabriel-Ernest and Other Tales
2015
Selected Stories of Saki
A Collection of Witty and Insightful Short Stories from Saki
2014
Humor, Horror and the Supernatural
1968
The Guests
2023
Die Verschwiegenheit der Lady Anne
1980
Esme
1911
Beasts and Super-Beasts
1914
The Image of the Lost Soul
2023
Sredni Vashtar and Other Stories
1984
Tobermory and Other Stories
1974
The Disappearance Of Crispina Umberleigh
2023
Cuentos de Navidad
De los hermanos Grimm a Paul Auster
2015
Шедьоври на разказа с неочакван край - Т. I
2017
Cuentos de humor y de horror
2006
Saki
Short Stories
1976
The Novels and Plays of Saki
1933
The Complete Saki
1762
Laura
1914
The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope
2014
The Stampeding of Lady Bastable
1929
El gran libro de los gatos
Los mejores relatos, ensayos y poemas de la literatura felina universal
2019
Reginald's Christmas Revel
1949
When William Came
1913
Tobermory
1912
A Twist In The Tale
2001
The Unrest Cure
2013
The World of Saki
1983
Louise
2023
The Brogue
2009
The Lumber Room
2009
The Dreamer
2023
The Interlopers
1910
The Unrest-Cure and Other Beastly Tales
2001
The Purple Of The Balkan Kings
2023
selected short stories
1939
The Boar-Pig
2009
Short Stories
1924
A Shot in the Dark
2006
Bertie's Christmas Eve
2012
The Ultimate Christmas Collection
2020
Classic Tales of Horror
2015
Tooth and Claw
1991
Witty, Weird and Outrageous
Saki Favorites
2002
The Story of St. Vespaluus
2013
Alguien llama a la ventana
Antología del cuento gótico
2016
The Reticence of Lady Anne
2012
76 Short Stories
1919
Kısa Öykünün Büyük Ustaları
2016
A Trio of Saki
2008
The Schartz-Metterklume Method
2009
Incredible Tales
Saki Short Stories
1966
The Music On The Hill
2023
The Very Best Classic Short Stories
2011
Another Trio of Saki
The Elk/A Holiday Task/The Schartz-Metterklume Method
1914
The Background
1911
Reginald and Reginald in Russia
2008
Quail Seed
1911
The Westminster Alice
1902
The Open Window and Other Short Stories
1914
Classic Ghost Stories
2007
Sredni Vashtar
1911
Improper Stories
1919
The Bull
2023
Selected Shorts
A Touch of Magic
2009
The Moons At Your Door
2015
The Big Book of the Masters of Horror
120+ authors and 1000+ stories
2018
Tea
2023
Tales from the Dead of Night
Thirteen Classic Ghost Stories
2013
Cuentos breves para leer en el bus
2004
The Mouse and Other Stories
1910
The Open Window
1911
Gabriel-Ernest
1909
Antología de relatos góticos
2019
Great Classic Stories
22 Unabridged Classics
2010
The Saki Megapack
140 Classic Novels and Short Stories
2013
Christmas With Dull People
2017
Hermann the Irascible
2023
