Description
A wine connoisseur with an infallible palate and a sinister taste in wagers. A decrepit old man with a masterpiece tattooed on his back. A voracious adventuress, a gentle cuckold, and a garden sculpture that becomes an instrument of sadistic vengeance. Social climbers who climb a bit too quickly. Philanderers whose deceptions are a trifle too ornate. Impeccable servants whose bland masks slip for one vertiginous instant.
In these deliciously nasty stories an internationally acclaimed practitioner of the short narrative works hos own brand of black magic: tantalizing, amusing, and sometimes terrifying readers into a new sense of what lurks beneath the ordianary. Included in Rolad Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected are such notorious gems of the bizarre as "The Sound Machine," "Lamb to the Slaughter," "Neck," and "The Landlady."
Info
ISBN: 9780525616986
Published Date: January 1, 1987
Publisher: Vintage Books
Language: English
Page Count: 471
Size: 8.25" l x 5.50" w x 1.50" h
Category
Fiction
Subject
Short Stories