While I was working on the Shirley Jackson Award nominations, I came across a horror short story collection with the unlikely title of There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.
As someone who is fascinated by horror from different countries and different cultures, I have put this book high on my “to read” list.
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There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy TalesAuthor: Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla |
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Nominated for the 2009 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Single-Author Collection 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. Table of Contents:
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