Last Tales is a collection of twelve of the last tales that Isak Dinesen wrote before her death in 1962. They include seven tales from Albondocani, a projected novel that was never completed; ‘The Caryatids, ‘ an unfinished Gothic tale of a couple bedeviled by an old letter and a gypsy’s spell; and three tales of winter, including ‘Converse at Night in Copenhagen, ‘ a drunken, all-night conversation between a boy-king, a prostitute, and a poor young poet.