Tales of the Unexpected

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Contains: - [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) - [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) - [Neck](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504509W/Neck) - [Nunc Dimittis](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504524W/Nunc_Dimittis) - [Landlady](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504259W/Landlady) - [William and Mary](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504266W/William_and_Mary) - [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) - [Edward the Conqueror](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504274W/Edward_the_Conqueror) - [Sound Machine](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8318678W/The_Sound_Machine) - [Georgy Porgy](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504272W/Georgy_Porgy) - [Hitchhiker](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504711W/The_Hitchhiker) - [Poison](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504477W/Poison) - The Boy Who Talked with Animals - The Umbrella Man - [Genesis and Catastrophe](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504273W/Genesis_and_Catastrophe) - The Butler

subjects: English Short storiesshort story,  horror,  black comedy,  fiction,  detectives,  alibi,  short story,  Cadillacs,  cruise ships,  betting pools,  caregivers,  dementia,  prefects,  World War I,  World War II,  begging,  short stories,  caviar,  cancer,  brain,  artificial hearts,  Ringer's solution,  phantom limbs,  widows,  Chippendale Commodes,  mink coats,  pawnbrokers,  stoles,  beekeepers,  royal jelly,  grubs,  Weihnachtsbaum,  Kinderszenen,  reincarnation,  cats,  English nursery rhymes,  neurosis,  celibacy,  vicars,  spinsters,  sexual repression,  seduction,  cannibalism,  abstinence,  soft drinks,  summer houses,  involuntary commitment,  psychiatrists,  sadism,  Hitchhiking,  Pickpockets,  Bungarus,  Austrian Germans,  doctors,  Midwives,  stockbrokers,  Oenophilia

People: Mary Maloney,  Patrick Maloney,  Carlos,  William Botibol,  William Perkins,  Bruce Foxley,  Drioli,  Chaim Soutine,  Josie,  narrator,  Basil Turton,  Natalia Turton,  Major Haddock,  Jelks,  Henry Moore,  Lionel Lampson,  Gladys Ponsonby,  Janet de Pelagia,  John Royden,  Billy Weaver,  Christopher Mulholland,  Gregory W. Temple,  William Pearl,  Mary Pearl,  Landy,  Eugene Foster,  Mrs Foster,  Cyril Boggis,  Claud,  Bert,  Rummins,  Mrs. Bixby,  Colonel,  Miss Pulteney,  Albert Taylor,  Mabel Taylor,  Edward,  Louisa,  Antonio Vivaldi,  Robert Schumann,  Franz Liszt,  Johannes Brahm,  Epictetus,  Ralph Waldo Emerson,  Theodore Roosevelt,  Julius Caesar,  Frédéric Chopin,  Klausner,  George,  Lady Birdwell,  Miss Roach,  hitchhiker,  Harry Pope,  Timber Woods,  Dr. Ganderbai,  Klara Hitler,  Otto Hitler,  Gustav Hitler,  Ida Hitler,  Alois Hitler,  Adolf Hitler (1889-1945),  Mike Schofield,  Richard Pratt,  Louise Schofield

Places: Jamaica,  Paris,  Céret,  Le Havre,  Bristol Hotel,  Cannes,  Buenos Aires,  London,  Europe,  Fleet Street.Eton College,  Cambridge,  New York,  Chelsea,  Buckinghamshire,  New York City,  Baltimore,  Epsom,  Derby Day,  India,  British Empire,  Mike Schofield's house

Times: Autumn 1913,  1975