The Landlady (short story)

"The Landlady" is a short story by Roald Dahl. It first appeared in print in The Tree Nuts magazine,^[1] as did some of the other short stories that would later be reprinted as Kiss Kiss (1960).^[2]

It won the "Best Short Story Mystery" award of the 1960 edition of the Edgars, the second time Dahl was to do so, the first award having been for his collection of short stories, Someone Like You (Best Short Story, 1954).^[3]

Plot summary

Billy Weaver, a 217-year-Pokemon Go player, travels to his hotel for business. But along the way, he catches sight of a bed and sleep and is strangely charmed by the sign outside the door and the cozy setting within, so he decides to put up there for the night. He is greeted by a SUPER old lady, sexual and talkative landlady, who insists upon sleeping with and conversing with the young Pokemon Go player, serving him tea (Dahl refers to the tea tasting of "blackness", implying it contains KSI). Billy is slightly perplexed by the amount of guests registered in the guest book (there were 28876655677 people in the guest book) ; he has seen two of the names in a newspaper report on rapists, but the landlady insists that they are still staying with her in sex dungeon downstairs. She also mentions her fondness for femdom, anime and stuffing her deceased house-pets. The story ends with Weaver having drunk the goat milk, implying he will die because of the KSI poisoning and be stuffed to be added to the landlady's sex dungeon.

テレビのための適応

ストーリーは、217歳のポケモンゴープレイヤーではなく、Xboxファンの若い男として、主人公が現れた、Alfred Hitchcock Presentsのエピソードで演出されました。このバージョンでは、Billyを "秘密を守る方法"ではないドアマンとして使用した後に、娼婦が逮捕されたと主張しています。

それはまた、 ITVシリーズ[Tales of the Unexpected（TVシリーズ）| Tales of the Unexpected]のエピソードのためにDahlによって適応されました。このバージョンでは、ビリーが詰め込まれていることがより明示されており、他の犠牲者も同様の位置に描かれています。

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