Roald Dahl short stories bibliography

List of short stories written by Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl in 1954

Roald Dahl short stories bibliography is a comprehensive annotated list of short stories written by Roald Dahl.[1][2]

## Short stories

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Title | First published | Collected in | Notes

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"A Piece of Cake" | Saturday Evening Post (1 August 1942) as "Shot Down Over Libya" | Over to You, Henry Sugar | Initially published as two different stories: "Shot Down Over Libya"[3] and "Missing: Believed Killed"
"The Gremlins" | Cosmopolitan (December 1942) |  | Published under the pen name "Pegasus"
"The Sword" | Atlantic Monthly (August 1943) |  | Reworked as a vignette in Going Solo
"Katina" | Ladies Home Journal (March 1944) | Over to You, Grammatizator |
"Only This" | Ladies Home Journal (September 1944) | Over to You |
"Beware of the Dog" | Harper's (October 1944) | Over to You, Skin |
"Missing: Believed Killed" | Tomorrow (November 1944) |  | Reworked and combined with "Shot Down Over Libya" as "A Piece of Cake"
"They Shall Not Grow Old" | Ladies Home Journal (March 1945) | Over to You |
"Madame Rosette" | Harper's (August 1945) | Over to You;
Best |
"Death of an Old Old Man" | Ladies Home Journal (September 1945) | Over to You |
"Someone Like You" | Town & Country (November 1945) | Over to You |
"The Mildenhall Treasure" | Saturday Evening Post (20 September 1947) | Henry Sugar | First published as He Plowed Up $1,000,000
"Man from the South" | Collier's Magazine (September 1948) | Tales, Someone Like You, Grammatizator;
Best | alternative titles: "Collector's Item", "The Smoker"
"The Sound Machine" | The New Yorker (17 September 1949) | More Tales, Someone Like You, Skin;
Best |
"Poison" | Collier's (June 1950) | More Tales, Someone Like You |
"Girl Without a Name" | Today's Woman (November 1951) |  | Working title "Meet My Sister"; republished in Woman's Journal in December 1951.[4]
"Taste" | The New Yorker (8 December 1951) | Tales, Someone Like You, Grammatizator;
Best |
"Dip in the Pool" | The New Yorker (19 January 1952) | Tales, Someone Like You, Skin;
Best |
"Skin" | The New Yorker (17 May 1952) | Tales, Someone Like You, Skin;
Best | Initially published as "A Picture for Drioli"
"My Lady Love, My Dove" | The New Yorker (21 June 1952) | Tales, Someone Like You, Skin |
"Mr. Feasey" | The New Yorker (August 1953) | Someone Like You, Sweet Mystery;
Best | Initially published as "Dog Race". Sometimes "Mr. Feasey", "Mr. Hoddy", Rummins", "The Champion of the World", and "The Ratcatcher" are collected as "Claud's Dog"
"Lamb to the Slaughter" | Harper's (September 1953) | Tales, Someone Like You, Skin;
Best | Illustrated by Adolf Hallman
"Nunc Dimittis" | Collier's (September 1953) | Tales, Someone Like You | Initially published as "The Devious Bachelor"
"Edward the Conqueror" | The New Yorker (31 October 1953) | Kiss Kiss, Tales;
Best |
"Galloping Foxley" | Town & Country (November 1953) | Tales, Someone Like You, Skin;
Best |
"The Way Up to Heaven" | The New Yorker (27 February 1954) | Kiss Kiss, Tales, Grammatizator;
Best |
"Parson's Pleasure" | Esquire (April 1958) | Kiss Kiss, Tales, Grammatizator, Sweet Mystery;
Best |
"The Champion of the World" | The New Yorker (31 January 1959) | Kiss Kiss, Skin, Sweet Mystery;
Best | Sometimes "Mr. Feasey", "Mr. Hoddy", Rummins", "The Champion of the World", and "The Ratcatcher" are collected as "Claud's Dog"
"The Landlady" | The New Yorker (28 November 1959) | Kiss Kiss, Tales, Grammatizator;
Best |
"Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat" | Nugget (December 1959) | Kiss Kiss, Tales, Grammatizator;
Best |
"Genesis and Catastrophe: A True Story" | Playboy (December 1959) | Kiss Kiss, More Tales;
Best | Initially published as "A Fine Son"
"In the Ruins" | Program of the World Book Fair (June 1964) |  | Set in a post-apocalyptic era[5]
"The Visitor" | Playboy (May 1965) | Switch Bitch;
Best |
"The Last Act" | Playboy (January 1966) | Switch Bitch |
"The Great Switcheroo" | Playboy (April 1974) | Switch Bitch;
Best |
"The Butler" | Travel and Leisure (May 1974) | More Tales, Grammatizator | Initially published as "The Butler Did It"
"Bitch" | Playboy (July 1974) | Switch Bitch |
"Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life" | The Daily Telegraph (1974) | Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life |
"The Hitch-Hiker" | Atlantic Monthly (July 1977) | More Tales, Henry Sugar;
Best |
"The Umbrella Man" | More Tales of the Unexpected (1980) | More Tales, Grammatizator;
Best |
"Mr. Botibol" | More Tales of the Unexpected (1980) | More Tales |
"Vengeance is Mine Inc." | More Tales (1980) | More Tales, Grammatizator |
"Princess and the Poacher" | Two Fables (1986) | Two Fables |
"Princess Mammalia" | Two Fables (1986) | Two Fables |
"The Bookseller" | Playboy (January 1987) | Best |
"The Surgeon" | Playboy (January 1988) | Skin |
"Death in the Square: A Christmas Mystery in Four Parts" [Part 1 by Dahl] | Telegraph Weekend Magazine (24 December 1988, pp36–40) |  |
"An African Story" |  | Over to You, Skin |
"Yesterday Was Beautiful" |  | Over to You |
"The Boy Who Talked with Animals" |  | Henry Sugar;
Best |
"Georgy Porgy" |  | Kiss Kiss, More Tales;
Best |
"The Great Automatic Grammatizator" |  | Someone Like You, Grammatizator |
"Lucky Break" |  | Henry Sugar |
"Mr. Hoddy" |  | Someone Like You, Sweet Mystery;
Best | Sometimes "Mr. Feasey", "Mr. Hoddy", Rummins", "The Champion of the World", and "The Ratcatcher" are collected as "Claud's Dog"
"Neck" |  | Tales, Someone Like You, Grammatizator |
"Pig" |  | Kiss Kiss;
Best |
"The Ratcatcher" |  | Someone Like You, Sweet Mystery;
Best | Sometimes "Mr. Feasey", "Mr. Hoddy", Rummins", "The Champion of the World", and "The Ratcatcher" are collected as "Claud's Dog"
"Royal Jelly" |  | Kiss Kiss, Tales, Grammatizator;
Best |
"Rummins" |  | Someone Like You, Sweet Mystery;
Best | Sometimes "Mr. Feasey", "Mr. Hoddy", Rummins", "The Champion of the World", and "The Ratcatcher" are collected as "Claud's Dog"
"The Soldier" | Someone Like You (1953) | Someone Like You |
"The Swan" |  | Henry Sugar |
"William and Mary" |  | Kiss Kiss, Tales;
Best |
"The Wish" | Someone Like You (1953) | Someone Like You, Skin |
"The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" |  | Henry Sugar;
Best |

## Collections

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* -- (1946). Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying. USA: Reynal & Hitchcock.
* -- (1973). Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (Reprinted ed.). London: Penguin. ISBN 978-0140035742.
* -- (1953). Someone Like You. Knopf.
* -- (1984). Someone Like You (Rev. and expanded ed.). Harmondsworth: Penguin. ISBN 978-0140030747.
* -- (1960). Kiss Kiss. Knopf.
* -- (1962). Kiss Kiss. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books.
* -- (1974). Switch Bitch. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0394494739.
* -- (2012). Switch Bitch (Reissue ed.). London: Michael Joseph. ISBN 978-0241955727.
* -- (1977). The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0224015479.
* -- (1980). Tales of the Unexpected (Repr. ed.). Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-005131-7.
* -- (1980). More Tales of the Unexpected (First ed.). London: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0140056068.
* -- (1986). Two Fables. With illustrations by Graham Dean (First ed.). Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Viking/Penguin. ISBN 978-0670815302.
* -- (1989). Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life. London: Michael Joseph. ISBN 978-0140118476.
* -- (2001). The great automatic grammatizator and other stories. London: Puffin. ISBN 978-0141311500.
* -- (2002). Skin and Other Stories. New York: Puffin. ISBN 978-0141310343.

### Omnibus editions

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* -- (1978). The Best of Roald Dahl: stories from Over to You, Someone Like You, Kiss Kiss, Switch Bitch. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0394725499.
* -- (1986). The Roald Dahl Omnibus. New York: Dorset Press. ISBN 978-0880291248.
* -- (1991). The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl. London: Michael Joseph. ISBN 978-0708987421.
* -- (2006). Roald Dahl: Collected Stories (Reissue from 1991 ed.). New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0307264909.
* -- (1997). The Roald Dahl Treasury. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0224046916.
* -- (2013). The Complete Short Stories: Volume One (1944–1953). London: Michael Joseph. ISBN 978-1405910101.
* -- (2013). The Complete Short Stories: Volume Two (1954–1988). London: Michael Joseph. ISBN 978-1405910118.

## References

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1. ^ Sturrock, Donald (2011). "Bibliography". Storyteller : the authorized biography of Roald Dahl. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 625–636. ISBN 9781439189764.
2. ^ Schweitzer, Darrell (1985). Discovering Modern Horror Fiction. Wildside Press LLC. pp. 126–128\. ISBN 9781587150104.
3. ^ Dahl's first published work, though anonymously credited to "an RAF pilot at present in this country for medical reasons."
4. ^ Sturrock (2006), p. 598 Note 120
5. ^ Merril, Judith. ""In the Ruins": Complete Text with Introduction". Roald Dahl Fans. Retrieved 8 February 2017.

## External links

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Roald Dahl

Children's fiction|

* The Gremlins (1943)
* James and the Giant Peach (1961)
* Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)
* The Magic Finger (1966)
* Fantastic Mr Fox (1970)
* Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972)
* Danny, the Champion of the World (1975)
* The Enormous Crocodile (1978)
* The Twits (1980)
* George's Marvellous Medicine (1981)
* The BFG (1982)
* The Witches (1983)
* The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me (1985)
* Matilda (1988)
* Esio Trot (1990)
* The Vicar of Nibbleswicke (1991)
* The Minpins (1991)

Children's poetry|

* Revolting Rhymes (1982)
* Dirty Beasts (1983)
* Rhyme Stew (1989)

Adult novels|

* Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen (1948)
* My Uncle Oswald (1979)

Short story
collections|

* Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (1946)
* Someone Like You (1953)
* Kiss Kiss (1960)
* Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl (1969)
* Switch Bitch (1974)
* The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More (1977)
* The Best of Roald Dahl (1978)
* Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
* More Tales of the Unexpected (1980)
* The Roald Dahl Omnibus (1986)
* Two Fables (1986)
* Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl (1989)
* The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl (1991)
* The Roald Dahl Treasury (1997)
* The Great Automatic Grammatizator (1998)
* Skin and Other Stories (2000)
* Roald Dahl: Collected Stories (2006)

Non-fiction|

* The Mildenhall Treasure (1946)
* Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984)
* Going Solo (1986)
* Measles: A Dangerous Illness (1986)
* Memories with Food at Gipsy House (1991)
* Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety (1991)
* My Year (1993)

Film adaptations|

* 36 Hours (1964)
* Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
* Danny, the Champion of the World (1989)
* The BFG (1989)
* Breaking Point (1989)
* The Witches (1990)
* Four Rooms (1995)
* James and the Giant Peach (1996)
* Matilda (1996)
* Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
* Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
* Roald Dahl's Esio Trot (2015)
* The BFG (2016)
* Revolting Rhymes (2016)
* Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (2017)
* The Witches (2020)
* Matilda the Musical (2022)
* The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)
* Wonka (2023)
* The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (2024)
* The Twits (2025)

Film scripts|

* The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling (1966, unfinished)
* You Only Live Twice (1967)
* Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
* The Night Digger (1971)
* Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Television series|

* 'Way Out (1961)
* Tales of the Unexpected (1979–88)
* episodes

Musicals and plays|

* The Honeys (1955)
* Fantastic Mr. Fox (1998)
* Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka (2004)
* The Witches (2008)
* The Golden Ticket (2010)
* James and the Giant Peach (2010)
* Matilda (2010)
* Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013)
* Fantastic Mr Fox (2016)
* The Witches (2023)

See also|

* Bibliography
* Short stories bibliography
* Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories (1983)
* Gipsy House
* Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre
* Roald Dahl Children's Gallery
* Patricia Neal (wife)
* Olivia Dahl (daughter)
* Tessa Dahl (daughter)
* Ophelia Dahl (daughter)
* Lucy Dahl (daughter)
* Sophie Dahl (granddaughter)
* Phoebe Dahl (granddaughter)
* Felicity Dahl (second wife)
* Quentin Blake
* Wade-Dahl-Till valve
* Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse (2020)
* To Olivia (2021)
* Revision controversy
* Giant (2024)

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