The Collected Short Stories

Description:

The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl is a 1991 short story collection for adults by Roald Dahl. 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 Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl (1989). Contains 51 stories (order varies by edition): From [Kiss Kiss](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16248853W/Kiss_Kiss) [Landlady](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504259W/Landlady) [William and Mary](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504266W/William_and_Mary) [The Way Up to Heaven](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504268W/The_Way_Up_to_Heaven) [Parson's Pleasure](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8318648W/Parson's_Pleasure) [Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3985404W/Mrs._Bixby_and_the_Colonel's_Coat) [Royal Jelly](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504271W/Royal_Jelly) [Georgy Porgy](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504272W/Georgy_Porgy) [Genesis and Catastrophe](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504273W/Genesis_and_Catastrophe) [Edward the Conqueror](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504274W/Edward_the_Conqueror) [Pig](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504275W/Pig) [Champion of the World](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504277W/Champion_of_the_World) From [Over to You](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45867W/Over_to_You) [Death of an Old, Old Man](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504282W/Death_of_an_Old_Old_Man) [An African Story](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504280W/An_African_Story) [A Piece of Cake](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504283W/A_Piece_of_Cake) [Madame Rosette](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504284W/Madame_Rosette) [Katina](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504285W/Katina) [Yesterday Was Beautiful](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504287W/Yesterday_Was_Beautiful) [They Shall Not Grow Old](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504289W/They_Shall_Not_Grow_Old) [Beware of the Dog](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504290W/Beware_of_the_Dog) [Only This](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504291W/Only_This) [Someone Like You](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15348115W/Someone_Like_You) From [Switch Bitch](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45873W/Switch_Bitch) [Visitor](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504386W/The_Visitor) [Great Switcheroo](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15091023W/The_Great_Switcheroo) [Last Act](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504394W/The_Last_Act) [Bitch](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504401W/Bitch) From [Someone Like You](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45868W/Someone_Like_You) [Taste](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15091200W/Taste) [Lamb to the Slaughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504418W/Lamb_to_the_Slaughter) [Man from the South](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504421W/Man_from_the_South) [The Soldier](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504424W/The_Soldier) [My Lady Love, My Dove](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504441W/My_Lady_Love_My_Dove) [Dip in the Pool](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504442W/Dip_in_the_Pool) [Galloping Foxley](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504444W/Galloping_Foxley) [Skin](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504460W/Skin) [Poison](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504477W/Poison) [Wish](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504494W/The_Wish) [Neck](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504509W/Neck) [Sound Machine](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8318678W/The_Sound_Machine) [Nunc Dimittis](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504524W/Nunc_Dimittis) [Great Automatic Grammatizator](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504542W/The_Great_Automatic_Grammatizator) Claud's Dog [Ratcatcher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504625W/The_Ratcatcher) [Rummins](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504633W/Rummins) [Mr Hoddy](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504639W/Mr_Hoddy) [Mr Feasey](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504641W/Mr_Feasey) Eight Further Tales of the Unexpected The umbrella man -- Mr Botibol -- Vengeance is Mine Inc. -- The butler -- Ah, sweet mystery of life -- [Bookseller](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504708W/The_Bookseller) [Hitchhiker](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504711W/The_Hitchhiker) The surgeon

subjects: Short stories,  Fiction Classics,  Gothic & Horror,  fiction,  Hitchhiking,  Pickpockets,  Booksellers and bookselling,  Extortion,  short story,  caviar,  Bungarus,  World War I,  World War II,  begging,  prefects,  cruise ships,  betting pools,  caregivers,  dementia,  Cadillacs,  Social life and customs,  stockbrokers,  Oenophilia,  horror,  black comedy,  detectives,  alibi,  flashback,  olfaction,  chemists,  funding,  research,  sexology,  boxing,  sexual intercourse,  cardiovascular disease,  breasts,  safety pins,  English Short stories,  Literature,  rape by deception,  hobbyists,  leprosy,  gynecology,  martinis,  menopause,  English literature,  macabre,  diners,  cannibalism,  Weihnachtsbaum,  Kinderszenen,  reincarnation,  cats,  Austrian Germans,  doctors,  Midwives,  English nursery rhymes,  neurosis,  celibacy,  vicars,  spinsters,  sexual repression,  seduction,  abstinence,  soft drinks,  summer houses,  involuntary commitment,  psychiatrists,  sadism,  beekeepers,  royal jelly,  grubs,  mink coats,  pawnbrokers,  stoles,  Short horror stories,  cyanide,  cancer,  brain,  artificial hearts,  Ringer's solution,  phantom limbs,  widows,  Chippendale CommodesWorld War II,  Royal Air Force,  resistance to interrogation,  hard water,  soft water,  World War,  Aeronautics,  Air pilots in fiction,  Air pilots,  Aeronautics in fiction,  Young Adult,  Fiction, short stories (single author),  New York Times reviewed,  Children's fiction,  English fiction

People: narrator,  hitchhiker,  William Buggage,  Miss Tottle,  Mr Hoddy,  Mr Feasey,  Lionel Lampson,  Gladys Ponsonby,  Janet de Pelagia,  John Royden,  Basil Turton,  Natalia Turton,  Major Haddock,  Jelks,  Henry Moore,  Harry Pope,  Timber Woods,  Dr. Ganderbai,  Drioli,  Chaim Soutine,  Josie,  Mike Schofield,  Richard Pratt,  Louise Schofield,  Mary Maloney,  Patrick Maloney,  Carlos,  William Botibol,  William Perkins,  Bruce Foxley,  Oswald Hendryks Cornelius,  Henri Biotte,  Pierre Lacaille,  Simone,  Marcel Brossolet,  Elvira Ponsomby,  Daughters of the American Revolution,  Abdul Aziz,  Jerry Rainbow,  Samantha Rainbow,  Vic Hammond,  Mary Hammond,  Anna Cooper,  Ed,  Conrad Kreuger,  God,  Peter Williamson,  Lexington,  Aunt Glosspan,  Mr. Zuckermann,  Claud,  Edward,  Louisa,  Antonio Vivaldi,  Robert Schumann,  Franz Liszt,  Johannes Brahm,  Epictetus,  Ralph Waldo Emerson,  Theodore Roosevelt,  Julius Caesar,  Frédéric Chopin,  Klara Hitler,  Otto Hitler,  Gustav Hitler,  Ida Hitler,  Alois Hitler,  Adolf Hitler (1889-1945),  George,  Lady Birdwell,  Miss Roach,  Albert Taylor,  Mabel Taylor,  Mrs. Bixby,  Colonel,  Miss Pulteney,  Billy Weaver,  Christopher Mulholland,  Gregory W. Temple,  William Pearl,  Mary Pearl,  Landy,  Eugene Foster,  Mrs Foster,  Cyril Boggis,  Bert,  Rummins

Places: London,  Epsom,  Derby Day,  Buggage's Rare Book Shop,  Europe,  Fleet Street,  England,  Mike Schofield's house,  Jamaica,  Paris,  Céret,  Le Havre,  Bristol Hotel,  Cannes,  Buenos Aires,  India,  British Empire,  Arabia,  Syria,  Cairo,  New York,  Dallas,  Texas,  Belguim,  Provence,  United States of America,  Waldorf Astoria,  Eton College,  Cambridge,  Chelsea,  Buckinghamshire,  New York City,  Baltimore,  Africa,  Greece,  Great Britain,  Vichy France,  Brighton

Times: 20th century,  1941-45,  1946,  1960s,  Autumn 1913,  1975