The whimsical, macabre tales of British writer H. H. Munrobetter known as Sakiskewer the banality and hypocrisy of polite English society between the end of the Victorian era and the beginning of World War I. Sakis heroes are enfants terribles who marshal their considerable wit and imagination against the cruelty and fatuousness of a decorous and doomed world.

Here, Sakis brilliantly polished dark gems are paired with illustrations by the peerless Edward Gorey, available for the first time in an English-language edition. The fragile elegance and creeping menace of Goreys pen-and-ink drawings perfectly complements Sakis population of delicate ladies, mischief-making charges, spectral guests, sardonic house pets, flustered authority figures, and delightfully preposterous imposters.