The Complete Short Stories. Volume Two: Roald Dahl

The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the second of two unsettling and sinister volumes.

`Dahl finds the child in the adult and the adult in the child and, with a little smile, he sticks the knife in both` Anthony Horowitz, from his introduction

Roald Dahl is one of the world`s most popular writers, equally at home writing for both children and adults. In this, the second of two volumes chronologically collecting all his published adult short stories, we experience Dahl`s dark and powerful imagination in full flight in 28 stories written between 1954 and 1988 (including eight tales which are not available in any other printed edition).

Here, in `Parson`s Pleasure`, a piece of furniture is the subject of a deceitful bargain; in `William and Mary`, a wife revenges herself on her dead husband; and in `Royal Jelly` some new parents find an unusual and unsettling way to give their newborn its start in life.

Whether you`re young or old, once you`ve stepped into the brilliant, troubling world of Roald Dahl, you`ll never be the same again.