More Tales of the Unexpected

by Roald Dahl

ISBN: 978-014-0056-068

First published 1954 (1,2) 1960 (3,4) 1977 (5) 1980 (6,7,8,9)

127 pages

Publisher: Penguin Group

Cover illustration N/A

4 / 5 Stars

A collection of 9 weird stories from Roald Dahl, some of them filmed for Television, as below.

• Poison
  • Series 2, Episode 5
  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28912885/
• The Sound Machine
  • Series 4, Episode 7
• Georgy Porgy
  • Series 2, Episode 9
• Genesis and Catastrophe
  • Series 2, Episode 12
• The Hitch-Hiker
  • Series 2, Episode 4
• The Umbrella Man
  • Series 2, Episode 11
• Mr Botibol
  • Series 2, Episode 13
• Vengeance is Mine Inc.
  • Series 3, Episode 4
• The Butler

All the short stories in this collection have bene filmed, apart from The Butler. Indeed Poison has been filmed by Wes Andersen with Benedict Cumberbatch starring as the lead.

(You can check here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tales_of_the_Unexpected_episodes)

A great holiday read, train read, airplane read. Short enough to finish before the next stop, meal break, the sun gets too hot, but long enough to make you think “Huh?”

Recommended.