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; Folk Tales; Legends & Mythology Fairy Tales; Folklore & Mythology Fiction Fiction - General Horror Horror - General Horror fiction Literature: Folklore Mythology Petrushevska'ia; L'iudmila - Translations into English Petrushevskaia; Liudmila Russian Novel And Short Story Short Stories Short Stories (single author) Short stories; Russian Translations into 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.