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The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl is a 1991 short story collection for adults by Roald Dahl. [1] The collection containing tales of macabre malevolence comprises many of Dahl's stories seen in the television series Tales of the Unexpected and previously collected in Someone Like You (1953), Kiss, Kiss (1960), Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl (1969), Switch Bitch (1974), and Ah, Sweet ...
Switch Bitch (1974) is a book of four stories by Roald Dahl, featuring themes of rape by deception and sexual sadism. The book introduces the character of Uncle Oswald, a wealthy and promiscuous hobbyist, and contains stories that have been praised and criticised for their dark and cynical tone.
A literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a poor girl who dies on New Year's Eve after seeing visions of warmth and love. Learn about the story's publication, adaptations, and cultural references in various media.
Groff Conklin called Someone Like You "certainly the most distinguished book of short stories of 1953 ... all superb". [2] Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas praised the collection's "subtly devastating murder stories [as well as] two biting science-fantasties, plus a few unclassifiable gems" and concluded the volume "belong[ed] on your shelves somewhere in the Beerbohm/Collier/Saki section".
The Veldt is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury about a family living in a futuristic automated house with a virtual reality nursery. The children become obsessed with a wild African veldt scene and plot to kill their parents, who are locked in the nursery by the children.
Tales of the Unexpected is a book of 16 crime, horror and conte cruel stories by British author Roald Dahl, published in 1979. Some of the stories were adapted for a TV series of the same name, broadcast on ITV from 1979 to 1988.
A collection of thirteen short stories by Roald Dahl, selected for teenagers from his adult works. The stories have a dark, humorous, or unexpected twist, and include "The Great Automatic Grammatizator", about a machine that writes novels.
The Visitor" is a 1965 short story by British writer Roald Dahl, centred on the fictional Uncle Oswald and the lurid adventures he describes in his elaborate diaries. In this story, set in 1946, Oswald has amorous designs on his Syrian host's wife and teenage daughter, with unfortunate and unexpected consequences.