There once lived a woman who tried to kill her neighbor's baby: scary fairy tales
Li︠u︡dmila Petrushevskai︠a︡; Ludmilla Petrushevskaya; Keith Gessen
Language: English
Fairy Tales Fiction Fiction - General Folklore & Mythology Horror Horror - General Horror Fiction L'iudmila - Translations into English Legends & Mythology Literature: Folklore Liudmila Mythology Petrushevska'ia Petrushevskaia Russian Russian Novel And Short Story Short Stories Short Stories (Single Author) Translations Into English folk tales
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Sep 29, 2009
Description:
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The literary event of Halloween: a book of otherworldly power from Russia's preeminent contemporary fiction writer** Vanishings and aparitions, nightmares and twists of fate, mysterious ailments and supernatural interventions haunt these stories by the Russian master Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, heir to the spellbinding tradition of Gogol and Poe. Blending the miraculous with the macabre, and leavened by a mischievous gallows humor, these bewitching tales are like nothing being written in Russia-or anywhere else in the world-today.