Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected (1990) [Collection]
by Roald Dahl
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Summary
(From the publisher):
A wine connoisseur with an infallible palate and a sinister taste in wagers. A decrepit old man with a masterpiece tattooed on his back. A voracious adventuress, a gentle cuckold, and a garden sculpture that becomes an instrument of sadistic vengeance. Social climbers who climb a bit too quickly. Philanderers whose deceptions are a trifle too ornate. Impeccable servants whose bland masks slip for one vertiginous instant.
In these deliciously nasty stories an internationally acclaimed practitioner of the short narrative works his own brand of black magic: tantalizing, amusing, and sometimes terrifying readers into a new sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary. Incuded in Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected are such notorious gems of the bizarre as "The Sound Machine," "Lamb to the Slaughter," "Neck," and "The Landlady."
(from the publisher)
Contents:
Original title: Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Crime and Mystery→ Suspense
Fiction→ General Fiction→ Humor
Fiction→ Horror→ General
The following works are contained within this one:
Man from the South (1948) [Short Story]
Author: Roald Dahl
Sound Machine, the (1949) [Short Story]
Author: Roald Dahl
Poison (1950) [Short Story]
Author: Roald Dahl
Taste (1951) [Short Story]
Author: Roald Dahl
My Lady Love, My Dove (1952) [Short Story]
Author: Roald Dahl
Skin (1952) [Short Story]
Author: Roald Dahl
Dip in the Pool (1952) [Short Story]
Author: Roald Dahl
Edward the Conqueror (1953) [Short Story]
Author: Roald Dahl
Galloping Foxley (1953) [Short Story]
Author: Roald Dahl
Lamb to the Slaughter (1953) [Short Story]
Author: Roald Dahl
Way Up to Heaven, the (1954) [Short Story]
Author: Roald Dahl
Parson's Pleasure (1958) [Novelette]
Author: Roald Dahl
Landlady, the (1959) [Short Story]
Author: Roald Dahl
William and Mary (1959) [Short Story]
Author: Roald Dahl
Genesis and Catastrophe (1959) [Short Story]
Author: Roald Dahl
Royal Jelly (1959) [Novelette]
Author: Roald Dahl
Georgy Porgy (1959) [Short Story]
Author: Roald Dahl
Boy Who Talked with Animals, the (1977) [Short Story]
Author: Roald Dahl
Hitchhiker, the (1977) [Short Story]
Author: Roald Dahl
Putting on the Ritz (1991) [Novel]
Author: Joe Keenan
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