At Used Buyer 2.0, Brad Craft, who we always refer to here as Our Favorite Curmudgeonly Bookseller, blogs about the scary stories he and fellow booksellers will be reading Saturday afternoons throughout October at the University Book Store in Seattle. For his turn, Craft read Saki, also known as Hector Hugh Munro, who Craft, always short-winded, describes as: “An unrepentant old Tory and lifelong bachelor, who lived with his dear sister, Ethel, wrote hilarious and macabre little books, and who, at only 43, too old to be there but there none the less, was last heard in in a shell crater near Beaumont-Hamel, France in November 1916, to say, “Put that bloody cigarette out!” before he was shot dead by a German sniper.”
He says, further: “I can think of no more thoroughly modern figure with which to begin our somewhat nostalgic return to the horrors of childhood, can you?” Listen to Craft read here.