by Roald Dahl
First published 1982
In Roald Dahl's "The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories," a machine that can write stories threatens to put authors out of business. A landlady's home holds dark secrets for her unsuspecting guests. And a man will go to shocking lengths to protect his most prized possession. These thirteen spellbinding tales brim with Dahl's signature blend of mischief, macabre, and moral complexity.
Genres: fiction, short-stories, literary-fiction, horror
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: dark-themes, unreliable-narrator
Setting: London, Europe, Fleet Street, Mike Schofield's House, New York, New York City, Baltimore, Jamaica, Eton College, Cambridge, Chelsea, Buckinghamshire, Greece, Great Britain, Paris
Period: 20th-century
288 pages · Hardcover · Viking
Content warnings: violence