Roald Dahl

Elusivi e imprevedibili appaiono i fantasmi tratteggiati in questi racconti. Per Mary sono uno squillo al telefono, per Rosemary un bagliore di capelli rossi in un cespuglio di rose bianche. Ma forse la verità è rivelata da Hartley: siamo noi stessi a creare i fantasmi che ci perseguitano. Quattordici capolavori della paura scelti da un grande maestro dell’imprevisto. Un caposaldo della letteratura horror che ha stregato i lettori di tutte le età. «E un fatto singolare» osserva Roald Dahl «ma, nelle migliori storie di fantasmi, il fantasma non c’è. O, per lo meno, non si vede. Si vede però il risultato delle sue azioni. Ogni tanto potete avvertire un fruscio alle vostre spalle, o intravedere tracce fugaci della sua presenza…»

A treasure trove of Dahl! Amazing facts - some funny, some silly - and an original chapter from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory make this a splendiferous, surprising and delicious treat from the wonderful world of Roald Dahl!

Whether it is taking a troublesome cow to be mated with a prime bull; dealing with a rat-infested hayrick; learning the ways and means of maggot farming; or describing the fine art of poaching pheasants using nothing but raisins and sleeping pills, Roald Dahl brings his stories of everyday country folk and their strange passions wonderfully to life. Lacing each tale with dollops of humour and adding a sprinking of the sinister, Dahl ensures that this collection is brimful of the sweet mysteries of life.

Evidently not even Roald Dahl could resist the acronym craze of the early eighties. BFG? Bellowing ferret-faced golfer? Backstabbing fairy godmother? Oh, oh… Big Friendly Giant! This BFG doesn't seem all that F at first as he creeps down a London street, snatches little Sophie out of her bed, and bounds away with her to giant land. And he's not really all that B when compared with his evil, carnivorous brethren, who bully him for being such an oddball runt. After all, he eats only disgusting snozzcumbers, and while the other Gs are snacking on little boys and girls, he's blowing happy dreams in through their windows.

Dahl is a master at introducing readers to a new sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary.
Tales of the Unexpected is a collection of sixteen short stories written by Roald Dahl and first published in 1979. All of the stories were earlier published in various magazines, and then in the collections Someone Like You and Kiss Kiss.