by Roald Dahl
First published 1960
From a landlady with a sinister secret to a woman plotting the perfect murder, Dahl's "Kiss Kiss" is a deliciously depraved collection of short stories that plunges readers into a world where the macabre and the mundane collide. With a surgeon's precision, Dahl dissects the darkness lurking beneath the veneer of everyday life, delivering shocks, twists, and the occasional burst of black humor. These are tales that burrow under the skin, revealing the sickness and savagery that can simmer just below the surface.
Genres: short-stories, horror, thriller, dark
Vibes: dark, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: dark-secrets, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Eton College, Cambridge, New York, Paris, Chelsea, London, Buckinghamshire, New York City, Baltimore
233 pages · Paperback · Penguin Books
Content warnings: gore, violence