by Roald Dahl
First published 2016
In these ten unsettling stories, master storyteller Roald Dahl explores the unraveling of sanity. Meet a husband consumed by jealousy of his wife's cat, a landlady who traps her guests forever, and a man whose taste for pork leads him astray. As the characters lose their grip on reality, Dahl lays bare the darker impulses that lurk beneath the surface of the human psyche.
Genres: short-stories, literary-fiction, horror, psychological-thriller
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: psychological-horror, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Africa, Greece, Great Britain, Eton College, Cambridge, New York City, New York, Paris
237 pages · Paperback · Penguin Books
Content warnings: mental-illness, violence