Sunday Review: A Night In The Cemetery and Other Stories of Crime and Suspense by Anton Chekhov

This is one of the more humorous books I've read all year. A Night In The Cemetery collects all of Chekhov's earliest published writings, which shockingly had never been available in the English language. So everyone needs to take a moment and thank Peter Sekirin for translating this lost collection of gems.

Thanks, Peter.

With a wonderfully oblique, sardonic approach to horror, much of what Chekhov would eventually become is revealed in these uncharacteristically sensationalized stories. My favorite piece in the collection is a meta-fiction titled "What You Usually Find In Novels." With great sarcasm Chekhov outlines in a series of hypothetical statements all of the cliches plaguing his contemporary fiction scene. The "story" is one of the few without a horror or crime element.

Here's the link to the review.

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A Night in the Cemetery: And Other Stories of Crime and Suspense
by Anton Chekhov