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There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby
(2009)A collection of stories by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
2010 Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection (nominee)
2010 World Fantasy Award for Best 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.
Genre: Fantasy
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.
Genre: Fantasy
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