More Tales of the Unexpected

More Tales of the Unexpected
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 169
Release: 1980
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0140056068

Dahl is a master at introducing readers to a new sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary.

Completely Unexpected Tales

Completely Unexpected Tales
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 521
Release: 1986
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0140098208

Take a pinch of unease. Stir it into a large dollop of the macabre, add a generous helping of dark and stylish wit, garnish with the bizarre and what do you have? Roald Dahl at his brilliant, hypnotizing best, cooking up some of the most unusual stories ever told. Here in one volume are Tales of the Unexpected and More Tales of the Unexpected, making this a superb compendium of vengeance, surprise and dark delight.

Tales of the Unexpected

Tales of the Unexpected
Author: H.G. Wells
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2023-09-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3368933108

Reproduction of the original.

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2000-05-22
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1101652950

Seven superb short stories from the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG! The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is coming soon to Netflix! Meet the boy who can talk to animals and the man who can see with his eyes closed. And find out about the treasure buried deep underground. A clever mix of fact and fiction, this collection also includes how master storyteller Roald Dahl became a writer. With Roald Dahl, you can never be sure where reality ends and fantasy begins. "All the tales are entrancing inventions." —Publishers Weekly

More Tales of the Unexpected

More Tales of the Unexpected
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher:
Total Pages: 205
Release: 1998
Genre: Large print books
ISBN: 9780754031802

The late Roald Dahl was acknowledged as a ma ster of the macabre and the unexpected. This collection cont ains nine of his best short stories, including Georgy Porgy, Poison, and The Sound Machine. '

Telling Tales of the Unexpected

Telling Tales of the Unexpected
Author: Robin Wooffitt
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1992
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780745010519

Conversation analysis, discourse analysis and the study of rhetoric are combining to form a powerful interdisciplinary field of social scientific inquiry. Robin Wooffitt, in a systematic analysis of how people describe their paranormal encounters as factual experiences, introduces this field to the student and reader unfamiliar with its methods and theoretical constructs. Powerful cultural scepticism about the paranormal ensures that such experiences not only provide an implicit challenge to common-sense understanding of the world, but also undermine the pronouncements of the scientific orthodoxy. Wooffitt focuses on the ways in which accounts are organized in order to warrant the speaker's claim that the experiences actually happened and were not, say, the product of misperception, wish fulfilment or psychological aberration. He also examines the design of descriptive sequences through which speakers portray themselves as 'normal','rational' people; and contributes to the study of identity construction in discursive practices. Wooffitt has illustrated and simplified complex theoretical arguments in conversation and discourse analysis with relevant empirical materials, and he usefully clarifies points of convergence and divergence between these analytic traditions.

My Uncle Oswald

My Uncle Oswald
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2012-08-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101605421

Meet Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, Roald Dahl's most disgraceful and extraordinary character . . . Aside from being thoroughly debauched, strikingly attractive and astonishingly wealthy, Uncle Oswald was the greatest bounder, bon vivant and fornicator of all time. In this instalment of his scorchingly frank memoirs he tells of his early career and erotic education at the hands of a number of enthusiastic teachers, of discovering the invigorating properties of the Sudanese Blister Beetle, and of the gorgeous Yasmin Howcomely, his electrifying partner in a most unusual series of thefts . . . 'Raunchy and cheeky entertainment' Sunday Express 'Immense fun' Daily Telegraph Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.

William and Mary (A Roald Dahl Short Story)

William and Mary (A Roald Dahl Short Story)
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2012-09-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1405910925

William and Mary is a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail. In William and Mary, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a wronged woman takes revenge on her dead husband . . . William and Mary is taken from the short story collection Kiss Kiss, which includes ten other devious and shocking stories, featuring the wife who pawns the mink coat from her lover with unexpected results; the priceless piece of furniture that is the subject of a deceitful bargain; a husband and wife who hit upon a novel way to feed their baby; and others. 'Unnerving bedtime stories, subtle, proficient, hair-raising and done to a turn.' (San Francisco Chronicle ) This story is also available as a Penguin digital audio download read by Juliet Stevenson and Adrian Scarborough. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.

Ghostly Tales of the Unexpected

Ghostly Tales of the Unexpected
Author: Simon Entwistle
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2014-09-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781501058868

Award winning tour guide Simon Entwistle presents a selection of his most famous Lancashire ghost stories along with the most popular of his modern stories in this spooky collection of legendary tales from haunted houses and spooky halls.