A collection of some of Saki's darker and sharper short stories: Sredni Vashtar, The Boar-Pig, The Schwarz-Metterklume Method, The Story-Teller, The Lumber Room, The Toys of Peace, The Reticence of Lady Anne, Mrs Packletide's Tiger. The Unrest-Cure, The Quest, The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope, The Seventh Pullet, The Hen, The Brogue, The She-Wolf, The Holiday Task, The Blind Spot, Louise, Fibroid Studge, Gabriel-Ernest, Tobermory, The Mouse, The Lost Sanjak, The Background, The Easter Egg, The Peace of Mowsle Barton, Laura, Dusk, The Interlopers, The Open Window and The Image of the Lost Soul.