<p>In 'Beasts and Super-Beasts', Saki, the pen name of H.H. Munro, presents a collection of his signature short stories, each brimming with the wit and subversiveness for which he is renowned. The anthology's title, nodding sardonically to George Bernard Shaw's 'Man and Superman', immediately sets the tone for these tales that often bridge the gap between the domestic and the wild, the civilized and the primeval. Saki's prose is characterized by ...