There Once Lived A Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.
What a title! Either it sucks you in or totally repells you, so keeping in line with my rather twisted personality, I just had to pick this book up. Don’t worry, it’s not a true crime novel; this collection of stories are described as scary fairy tales and penned by a Russian author, which to me promises a different, darker flavor. Remember the story the Russian neighbors told the protagonist of My Antonia, about the wedding party attacked by wolves on a snowy night? That one stills gives me the shivers. Anyway, if you’re in the mood for something completely different, pick up There Once Lived A Woman… and indulge in a good scare!
From the publisher’s summary:
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.
Take a peek at a little info about Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.
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