A review by jasonfurman
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

3.0

I wanted to like this more than I actually did like it. Some of the stories are quite striking, original and memorable. But there is something overly defiant of any internal logic or coherence that gets in the way of them being fully satisfying. And there was a certain repetitiveness to them. That said, some are about as imaginative as anything I've read -- from about as macabre and twisted mind as one could imagine.