by Roald Dahl
First published 1953
A little boy watches in horror as his living room carpet transforms into a nest of slithering snakes. At a dinner party, a seemingly innocuous bet takes a dark and sinister turn. An art dealer trades in the flesh of the human body. Roald Dahl's "Someone Like You" is a collection of 18 unsettling stories that plumb the depths of human nature, blending the everyday with the grotesque and the morbid.
Genres: short-stories, 20th-century, horror, thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: dark, grotesque, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Bristol Hotel, Buenos Aires, Cannes, Céret, England, Europe, Fleet Street, India, Jamaica, Le Havre, London, Mike Schofield's house, Paris
Period: 20th century, Autumn 1913
246 pages · Mass Market Paperback · Pocket Books
Content warnings: body-horror, gore, graphic-violence