Someone Like You (short story collection)

Someone Like You
Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Roald Dahl
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Mystery Horror Science fiction short stories
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Publication date	1953
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	359 pp

Someone Like You is a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl. It was published in 1953 by Alfred Knopf.

"Dip in the Pool"
"Galloping Foxley"
"Lamb to the Slaughter"
"Man from the South"
"Mr. Feasey"
"Mr. Hoddy"
"My Lady Love, My Dove"
"Neck"
"Nunc Dimittis"
"Poison"
"Rummins"
"Skin"
"Taste"
"The Great Automatic Grammatizator"
"The Ratcatcher"
"The Soldier"
"The Sound Machine"
"The Wish"

Reception

Boucher and 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."^[1]

Awards

Edgar Award, 1954^[1]

References

1 2 "Recommended Reading," F&SF, August 1954, p.79.

Roald Dahl

Children's fiction	The Gremlins (1943) James and the Giant Peach (1961) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) The Magic Finger (1966) Fantastic Mr Fox (1970) Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972) Danny, the Champion of the World (1975) The Enormous Crocodile (1978) The Twits (1980) George's Marvellous Medicine (1981) The BFG (1982) The Witches (1983) The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me (1985) Matilda (1988) Esio Trot (1990) The Vicar of Nibbleswicke (1991) The Minpins (1991)

Children's poetry	Revolting Rhymes (1982) Dirty Beasts (1983) Rhyme Stew (1989)

Adult novels	Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen (1948) My Uncle Oswald (1979)

Adult short story collections	Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (1946) Someone Like You (1953) Kiss Kiss (1960) Lamb to the Slaughter (1953) Switch Bitch (1974) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More (1977) The Best of Roald Dahl (1978) Tales of the Unexpected (1979) More Tales of the Unexpected (1980) The Roald Dahl Omnibus (1986) Two Fables (1986) Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl (1989) The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl (1991) The Roald Dahl Treasury (1997) The Great Automatic Grammatizator (1998) Skin and Other Stories (2000) Roald Dahl: Collected Stories (2006)

Non-fiction	The Mildenhall Treasure (1946) Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984) Going Solo (1986) Memories with Food at Gipsy House (1991) Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety (1991) My Year (1993)

Film adaptations	36 Hours (1965) Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) Danny, the Champion of the World (1989) The BFG (1989) The Witches (1990) Four Rooms (1995) James and the Giant Peach (1996) Matilda (1996) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) Roald Dahl's Esio Trot (2015) The BFG (2016)

Film scripts	The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling (1966, unfinished) You Only Live Twice (1967) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) The Night Digger (1971) Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Television series	Way Out (1961) Tales of the Unexpected (1979–88)

Musicals and plays	The Honeys (1955) Matilda (2010) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013) Fantastic Mr Fox (2016)

See also	Quentin Blake Roald Dahl bibliography Roald Dahl short stories bibliography Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories (1983) List of Tales of the Unexpected episodes

Related	Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre Roald Dahl Children's Gallery Patricia Neal (wife) Tessa Dahl (daughter) Ophelia Dahl (daughter) Lucy Dahl (daughter) Sophie Dahl (granddaughter)

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Someone Like You (short story collection)

Contents

Reception

Awards

References

Further reading