Tales of the Unexpected (short story collection)

Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected is a collection of 16 short stories written by British author Roald Dahl 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.[1]

Tales of the Unexpected

First edition
Author	Roald Dahl
Language	English
Genre	Crime • horror • conte cruel
Publisher	Michael Joseph
Publication date	1979
Media type	print
Pages	282
ISBN	0-14-005131-7
OCLC	261341390

Contents

1. "Taste"
2. "Lamb to the Slaughter"
3. "Man from the South"
4. "My Lady Love, My Dove"
5. "Dip in the Pool"
6. "Galloping Foxley"
7. "Skin"
8. "Neck"
9. "Nunc Dimittis"
10. "The Landlady"
11. "William and Mary"
12. "The Way Up to Heaven"
13. "Parson's Pleasure"
14. "Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat"
15. "Royal Jelly"
16. "Edward the Conqueror"

Adaptations

Stories from this anthology were adapted to television in the Anglia Television series Tales of the Unexpected (1979–1988).[2]

References

1. Roald Dahl (1979). Tales of the Unexpected. The first seven stories in this book are from Someone Like You, ... remaining stories are from Kiss Kiss ... All the stories appeared in an omnibus volume entitled Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl ... Acknowledgement is hereby made to The New Yorker, Collier's, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, Nugget and Playboy
2. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075592