Roald Dahl short stories bibliography is a comprehensive annotated list of short stories written by Roald Dahl. [1] [2]
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 |
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"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 |
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" 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 |
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" Dip in the Pool" | The New Yorker (19 January 1952) |
Tales,
Someone Like You,
Skin; Best |
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" 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 |
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" 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 |
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" Galloping Foxley" | Town & Country (November 1953) |
Tales,
Someone Like You,
Skin; Best |
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" The Way Up to Heaven" | The New Yorker (27 February 1954) |
Kiss Kiss,
Tales,
Grammatizator; Best |
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" Parson's Pleasure" | Esquire (April 1958) |
Kiss Kiss,
Tales,
Grammatizator,
Sweet Mystery; Best |
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"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 |
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" Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat" | Nugget (December 1959) |
Kiss Kiss,
Tales,
Grammatizator; Best |
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" 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 |
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" The Last Act" | Playboy (January 1966) | Switch Bitch | |
" The Great Switcheroo" | Playboy (April 1974) |
Switch Bitch; Best |
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"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 |
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" The Umbrella Man" | More Tales of the Unexpected (1980) |
More Tales,
Grammatizator; Best |
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" 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 |
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" Georgy Porgy" |
Kiss Kiss,
More Tales; Best |
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" 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 |
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"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 |
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"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 | ||
" The Swan" | Henry Sugar | ||
" William and Mary" |
Kiss Kiss,
Tales; Best |
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"The Wish" | Someone Like You, Skin | ||
" The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" |
Henry Sugar; Best |