There once lived a woman who tried to kill her neighbor's baby: scary fairy tales

Li︠u︡dmila Petrushevskai︠a︡ & Ludmilla Petrushevskaya & Keith Gessen

Language: English

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.