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Lamb to the Slaughter" is a 1953 short story by Roald Dahl. It was initially rejected, along with four other stories, by The New Yorker, but was published in Harper's Magazine in September 1953. [1] It was adapted for an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (AHP) that starred Barbara Bel Geddes and Harold J. Stone.
Lamb to the Slaughter; Galloping Foxley; The Way Up to Heaven; Parson's Pleasure; The Landlady; William and Mary; Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat; Royal Jelly; Georgy Porgy; Genesis and Catastrophe; Pig; The Visitor; Claud's Dog The Ratcatcher; Rummins; Mr Hoddy; Mr Feasey; The Champion of the World
Dahl was credited with teleplay for two episodes, and four of his episodes were directed by Alfred Hitchcock himself, an example of which was "Lamb to the Slaughter" (1958). [116] Dahl acquired a traditional Romanichal vardo in the 1960s, and the family used it as a playhouse for his children at home in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.
"Lamb to the Slaughter" "Man from the South" "My Lady Love, My Dove" "Dip in the Pool" "Galloping Foxley" "Skin" "Neck" "Nunc Dimittis" "The Landlady" "William and Mary" "The Way Up to Heaven" "Parson's Pleasure" "Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat" "Royal Jelly" "Edward the Conqueror"
Groff Conklin called Someone Like You "certainly the most distinguished book of short stories of 1953 ... all superb". [2] Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas praised the collection's "subtly devastating murder stories [as well as] two biting science-fantasties, plus a few unclassifiable gems" and concluded the volume "belong[ed] on your shelves somewhere in the Beerbohm/Collier/Saki section".
Lamb to the Slaughter; The Landlady (short story) The Last Act; M. Man from the South; Mr. Botibol; Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat; My Lady Love, My Dove; N. Neck ...
Roald Dahl – Lamb to the Slaughter and Other Stories; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Man with the Twisted Lip and The Adventure of the Devil's Foot; Graham Greene – Under the Garden; Rudyard Kipling – Baa, Baa, Black Sheep and The Gardener; Gabriel García Márquez – Bon Voyage, Mr President and Other Stories
Lamb to the Slaughter; A Late Encounter with the Enemy; The Liberation of Earth; M. The Man Who Planted Trees; The Meadow (play) Mr. Spaceship; The Murderer; N. Neck ...