by Roald Dahl
First published 1991
Enter Dahl's unsettling world, where everyday events curdle into the bizarre. A landlady's peculiar boarding house. A vegetarian's grisly comeuppance. A gambler's deadly wager. These devilishly clever stories shock and delight, blending the mundane with the grotesque. Dahl's singular voice lures you in, then gleefully upends your expectations.
Genres: short-stories, literary-fiction, horror
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: twist-ending, unreliable-narrator
Setting: 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
Period: 20th century, 1941-45, 1946, 1960s, Autumn 1913, 1975
762 pages · Paperback · Penguin Books
Content warnings: gore, violence