Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 13 November 1916), born in Akyab, Burma (also known as Myanmar) when it was still part of the British Empire,better known by the pen name Saki, and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, and P. G. Wodehouse.

one of his short stories:

The Storyteller

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