Original title "Gabriel-Ernest" Publication date 1909 | Publisher Westminster Gazette Originally published 1909 | |
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"Gabriel-Ernest" is a 1909 short story by British writer H. H. Munro, better known as Saki. The story was included in The Westminster Gazette and appears in the collection Reginald in Russia published by Methuen & Co. in 1910.
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"Gabriel-Ernest" starts with a warning: “There is a wild beast in your woods…” As the story propels, we learn from the narrator that Gabriel is indeed wild, feral - a werewolf in fact. The story uses the strain of animalist desire as an assessment to adolescence. The story’s climax is when Gabriel is revealed to have taken a small child home from Sunday school. A pursuit ensues but Gabriel and the child disappear near a river. The only items found are the clothes of Gabriel and the two are never seen again.
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