Tales of the Unexpected (Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected #1)
Roald Dahl
4.15 · 20 ratings · Published: 26 Mar 1979
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. Included in Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected are such notorious gems of the bizarre as "The Sound Machine," "Lamb to Slaughter," "Neck," and "The Landlady."
Cover illustration by Seth Jaben
Cover design by Heidi North
Contents:
- Taste
- Lamb to the Slaughter
- Man from the South
- My Lady Love, My Dove
- Dip in the Pool
- Galloping Foxley
- Skin
- Neck
- Nunc Dimittis
- The Landlady
- William and Mary
- The Way Up to Heaven
- Parson's Pleasure
- Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat
- Royal Jelly
- Edward the Conqueror
- The Sound Machine
- Georgy Porgy
- The Hitchhiker
- Poison
- The Boy Who Talked with Animals
- The Umbrella Man
- Genesis and Catastrophe
- The Butler
- fantasy 4
- horror 3
- classics 3
- funny 3
- mystery 3
- children 2
- 20th century 2
- suspense 2
- contemporary 2
- crime 2
- comedy 2
- dark 1
- action / adventure 1
- drama 1
- satire 1
- romantic love 1
- Add topics
- format - reader age
- young adult 3
- anthology 2
- audiobook 2
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