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Beasts and Super-Beasts is a collection of short stories, written by Saki (the literary pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro) and first published in 1914.Along with The Chronicles of Clovis, Beasts and Super-Beasts is one of Saki's best-known works. It was his final collection of stories before his death in World War I, and several of its stories, in particular "The Open Window" and "Sredni Vashtar", are reprinted frequently in anthologies.The majority of the volume's stories deal in one fashion with animals, providing the source for its title. The character of Clovis Sangrail, featured in earlier works by Saki, appears in several stories. Most of the stories appeared previously in periodicals.Stylistically, Beasts and Super-Beasts displays the simple language, cynicism and wry humor that characterize Saki's earlier literary output.

Hector Hugh Munro, better identified by means of the pen title Saki, was aBritish writer, whose witty and many times macabre stories satirizedEdwardian society and culture. He is considered a grasp of the quick storyand is mainly compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. His storiescharacteristic delicately drawn characters and finely judged narratives. "TheOpen Window" is also his most famous, with a closing line ("Romance atbrief detect was her speciality") that has entered the lexicon. Additionally tohis quick experiences (which were first released in newspapers, as used to bethe customized of the time, after which accumulated into several volumes)he additionally wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaborationwith Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a ancient learn, the upward thrust ofthe Russian Empire, the one guide released below his own title; a short novel,The insufferable Bassington; the episodic The Westminster Alice (aParliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland), and When William came,subtitled a story of London beneath the Hohenzollerns, an early alternatehistory. He was once influenced through Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, andKipling, and himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, and P. G.Wodehouse.