Roald Dahl Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British author of popular children's literature and short stories, a poet, screenwriter and a wartime Flying ace, fighter ace. His books have sold more than 300 million copies ...

's Tales of the Unexpected'' is a collection of 16

short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the old ...

written by British author

and first published in 1979. All of the stories were earlier published in various magazines, and then in the collections '' Someone Like You'' and ''

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Taste The gustatory system or sense of taste is the sensory system that is partially responsible for the perception of taste. Taste is the perception stimulated when a substance in the mouth biochemistry, reacts chemically with taste receptor cells l ...

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Lamb to the Slaughter "Lamb to the Slaughter" is a 1953 short story by Roald Dahl. It was originally rejected, along with four other stories, by ''The New Yorker'', but was published in ''Harper's Magazine'' in September 1953. The story was illustrated by Adolf Hal ...

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Man from the South "Man from the South" is a short story by Roald Dahl originally published as "Collector's Item" in ''Collier's'' in September 1948. It has been adapted several times for television and film, including a 1960 version that aired as an episode of '' ...

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Dip in the Pool "Dip in the Pool" is a macabre short story by British writer Roald Dahl, originally published in the 19 January 1952 edition of ''The New Yorker''. It later appeared in the collection '' Someone Like You'' (1953). Plot summary On a British cruis ...

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Galloping Foxley "Galloping Foxley" is a short story by Roald Dahl first published in '' Town & Country'' in 1953. It was included in the short-story collection '' Someone Like You'', and was later adapted into an episode of '' Tales of The Unexpected''. Publish ...

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Skin Skin is the layer of usually soft, flexible outer tissue covering the body of a vertebrate animal, with three main functions: protection, regulation, and sensation. Other animal coverings, such as the arthropod exoskeleton, have different ...

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Neck The neck is the part of the body in many vertebrates that connects the head to the torso. It supports the weight of the head and protects the nerves that transmit sensory and motor information between the brain and the rest of the body. Addition ...

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Nunc Dimittis The Nunc dimittis (), also known as the Song of Simeon or the Canticle of Simeon, is a canticle taken from the second chapter of the Gospel of Luke, verses 29 to 32. Its Latin name comes from its incipit, the opening words, of the Vulgate transl ...

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Parson's Pleasure Parson's Pleasure in the University Parks at Oxford, England, was a secluded area for male-only nude bathing on the River Cherwell. It was located next to the path on the way to Mesopotamia, Oxford, Mesopotamia at the south-east corner of t ...

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Adaptations

Stories from this anthology were adapted for Anglia's popular television series '' Tales of the Unexpected,'' broadcast on ITV from 1979 to 1988.

References

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