Tales of the Unexpected (short story collection) explained

Tales of the Unexpected
Author:	Roald Dahl
Language:	English
Genre:	Crime • horror • conte cruel
Publisher:	Michael Joseph
Pub Date:	1979
Media Type:	print
Pages:	282
Isbn:	0-14-005131-7
Oclc:	261341390

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]

Stories

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 for Anglia's popular television series Tales of the Unexpected, broadcast on ITV from 1979 to 1988.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Book: Tales of the Unexpected. Roald Dahl. 1979. 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. Web site: Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series 1979–1988) - IMDb .