A widow discovers that her fastidious and controlling husband has agreed to take part in a medical experiment which sees his brain continue to function after his death…. Everything seems perfect until he discovers her fondness for taxidermy and realises that his tea tastes funny….įollowing quickly on the heels of The Landlady is William and Mary. A sweet old lady offers him cheap lodgings in her boarding house. A young man is starting a new job in a new city and is looking for a place to stay. The Landlady is the first story in this omnibus and comes from the Kiss Kiss collection. Not every story is horrific or macabre but there is a unifying theme of human capacity for cruelty. With 48 stories from 6 different collections this is a chunky omnibus and I find it easier to pick it up and read a couple of stories at a time rather than go through it in a purely linear fashion. The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl is a great collection of macabre and frightening stories which everyone should dip into now and again. True, but one of the most terrifying things in life is the thought of what humans can do to one another rather than tales of ghosties and ghoulies. This is horror week, what is a classic children’s writer like Roald Dahl doing here? The BFG wasn’t that scary…. Short stories which expose the horror of human nature The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl. Posts in this series: Hallowe'en Horror Week
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