Paperback. Pub Date :2013-09-12 624 English Penguin Books Ltd The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the first of two unsettling and sinister volumes.They are brutal. these stories. and yet you finish reading each one with a smile. or maybe even a hollow laugh. certainly a shiver of gratification. because the conclusion always seems so right Charlie Higson. from his introduction.Roald Dahl is one of the most popular writers of the modern age. effortlessly writing for children and adults alike.In this. the first of two volumes chronologically collecting all his published adult short stories. we see how Dahl began by using his experiences in the war to write fiction but quickly turned to his powerful and dark imagination to pen some of the most unsettling and disquieting tales ever written.