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<p><b>BY THE AUTHOR OF <i>THE HANDMAID''S TALE</i>,<i> THE TESTAMENTS </i>AND <i>ALIAS GRACE<br></i></b><br><b>''Dark and witty tales from the gleefully inventive Margaret Atwood. Witty verve, imaginative inventiveness and verbal sizzle vivify every page'' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br>A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome comes to terms with the little people she keeps seeing, while a newly formed populist group gathers to burn down her retirement residence. A woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire, and a crime committed long ago is revenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatolite.<b><br><br>''A</b><b> collection of nine acerbic, mischievous, gulpable short stories'' <i>Harper''s Bazaar</i></b><br><b><br>''Atwood''s prose is so sharp and sly that the effect is bracing rather than bleak'' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br><b>''[Look at th