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Saki

(1870 - 1916)

Hyacinth

Matilda ignores Mrs. Panstreppon's advice not to take her rumbustious son to the poll on his father's election day.

11 min read · Rating: G · Read story

The Hounds of Fate

A man contemplating ending it all off the edge of a cliff is apparently - by an enormous stroke of luck - given a second chance.

14 min read · Rating: G · Read story

Hermann the Irascible

A newly imported King of England finds a harsh - but effective - way of dealing with the country's feminists.

5 min read · Rating: G · Read story

Bertie's Christmas Eve

Bertie Steffink takes action against his disapproving relatives.

10 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story

Adrian

Mrs Mebberly takes on a little more than expected when she arranges to take the angelic looking young 'Adrian' on holiday.

7 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story

The Treasure Ship

The Duchess of Dulverton sends an errant nephew to search for underwater gold.

7 min read · Rating: G · Read story

The Easter Egg

Lady Barbara is charged with finding a suitably new and tasteful method for greeting the head of state of a small Euopean princedom.

7 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story

Sredni Vashtar

A boy defies his hated guardian through the worship of a great ferret who lives in the tool-shed.

9 min read · Rating: R · Read story

The Wolves Of Cernogratz

It is said that when a Cernogratz dies in the family castle, the wolves in the forest howl all night long ... but Baroness Gruebel, new owne

9 min read · Rating: G · Read story

Shock Tactics

Bertie becomes increasingly frustrated by his mother who insists on reading all of his mail - so he mentions the problem to his friend Clovi

9 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story

Quail Seed

A small grocery store comes up with an ingenious way of competing with the big city shops.

11 min read · Rating: G · Read story

The Background

When Henri Deplis becomes the canvas for the final masterpiece of the great tatoo artist Andreas Pincini, he finds that life as a living wor

6 min read · Rating: G · Read story