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Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter ace of Norwegian descent. His books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide. Dahl has be ...
's Tales of the Unexpected'' is a collection of 16
short stories written by British author
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter ace of Norwegian descent. His books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide. Dahl has be ...
and first published in 1979. All of the stories were earlier published in various magazines, and then in the collections ''
Someone Like You'' and ''
Kiss Kiss Kiss Kiss may refer to: Books
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Contents
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Taste"
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Lamb to the Slaughter
"Lamb to the Slaughter" is a 1954 short story by Roald Dahl. It was initially rejected, along with four other stories, by ''The New Yorker'', but was published in ''Harper's Magazine'' in September 1953. It was adapted for an episode of ''Alfred ...
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Man from the South
"Man from the South" is a short story by Roald Dahl originally published in '' Collier's'' in 1948. It has been adapted several times for television and film, including a 1960 version that aired as an episode of '' Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', a ...
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# "My Lady Love, My Dove"
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Dip in the Pool"
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Galloping Foxley"
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Skin"
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Neck
The neck is the part of the body on many vertebrates that connects the head with the torso. The neck supports the weight of the head and protects the nerves that carry sensory and motor information from the brain down to the rest of the body. In ...
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Nunc Dimittis"
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The Landlady
A landlady is a female landlord.
Landlady or The Landlady may also refer to:
* ''The Landlady'' (novella), an 1847 story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
* "The Landlady" (short story), a 1959 story by Roald Dahl
*'' Bariwali'' (''The Landlady''), a 2000 I ...
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William and Mary"
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The Way Up to Heaven"
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Parson's Pleasure"
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Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat"
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Royal Jelly"
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Edward the Conqueror"
Adaptations
Stories from this anthology were adapted for
Anglia's popular television series ''
Tales of the Unexpected,'' broadcast on
ITV
ITV or iTV may refer to:
ITV
*Independent Television (ITV), a British television network, consisting of:
** ITV (TV network), a free-to-air national commercial television network covering the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islan ...
from 1979 to 1988.
References
Short story collections by Roald Dahl
1979 short story collections
Michael Joseph books
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