There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, a Russian master in the tradition of Gogol and Poe, presents a collection of unsettling fairy tales. These stories are filled with vanishings, apparitions, and supernatural interventions that blend the miraculous with the macabre. Leavened by a mischievous gallows humor, these bewitching tales offer a unique and dark perspective on the human condition.