Skeleton's Holiday

''Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we''ll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I''ll wear her face tonight instead of mine.''

These dreamlike, carnivalesque fables by one of the leading lights of the Surrealist movement are masterpieces of invention and grand-guignol humour.

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