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A selection of macabre and witty short stories by Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916), better known by his pen names Saki or H. H. Munro, perhaps the greatest master of the short story form in English. Read by Simon Stanhope.

H. H. Munro was born in Burma, then part of British India, where his father was an Inspector General for the Imperial Police, but following the death of his mother when he was just two years old Hector and his siblings were sent home to England, to live in Devon with his paternal grandmother and two maiden aunts. The aunts (Augusta and Charlotte) were apparently strict and austere and provided much material for future character studies in Saki's satires. After some 10 years or so, Hector eventually "escaped" to boarding school. In his early 20s he followed his father's footsteps and enrolled in the Indian Imperial Police, but was invalided home with fever after little over a year. Turning to writing to make his living, Munro began working as a journalist in the late 1890s. He wrote countless pieces for magazine and newspaper publication, and took up the pen name Saki around 1900. His always witty and often macabre stories established his reputation as one of the greatest satirists of the Edwardian era. He also worked as a sketch writer for publications including the Daily Express and the Morning Post, where he was a foreign correspondent. He enlisted in World War I, despite being officially over-age in 1914, and was killed by a sniper while sheltering in a shell hole during the Battle of the Ancre in November 1916. His burial place is unknown.