What is the main writing style of Saki?

Saki (H. H. Munro) succeeds in his fiction because of
his inimitable blend of satire, irony, startling endings, clever dialogue, sparkling
wit, psychological insight, unconventional settings, mystery, and sometimes even
horror. 

While Saki is almost always a satirist, his satire
is not biting; rather it seems more a practical joke upon a character of the narrative
rather than an invective against the social class Sakicriticizes.  In his short story,
"The Mouse," for instance, Theodoric Voler has been brought up in a society that has
screened him from "the coarser realities of life."  His fastidious nature is satirzed as
part of the Ewardian society which Saki often ridicules; however, the surprise ending
seems more a joke on Voler himself than a criticism of his society. Likewise, in "Dusk,"
the satirization of the cynical Gortsby who feels himself better than the others who
come to sit in the park at twilight, ends with an ironic twist that again sharply
humorizes Gortsby's character.

"The Interlopers" is another
story that is socially satiric as well as psychologically insightful.  Two Russian
aristocrats hold each other in enmity because of an inherited feud over a parcel of
land.  As they unexpectedly encounter each other one night in the forest, a sudden storm
pinions them under the branches of a huge beech tree. Ironically, with death hovering
over them, they realize the foolishness of their feud and resolve to be good neighbors
after they are rescued by their men who will search for them.  But, when they think they
hear men shouting, one of them laughs hollowly, and tells the other that wolves are
coming instead.

Saki's writing is certainly clever,
socially satiric, and surprising; with its unconventionalities, there is little
obeisance for the rules of realism.