There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy TalesThe celebrated scary fairy tales of Russias preeminent contemporary fiction writer the author of the prizewinning memoir about growing up in Stalinist Russia, The Girl from the Metropol Hotel 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

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