Roald Dahl short stories bibliography
List of short stories written by Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl short stories bibliography is a comprehensive annotated list of short stories written by Roald Dahl.[1][2]
Short stories
Title | First published | Collected in | Notes |
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"A Piece of Cake" | Saturday Evening Post (1 August 1942) as "Shot Down Over Libya" | Over to You, Henry Sugar | Initially published as two different stories: "Shot Down Over Libya"[3] and "Missing: Believed Killed" |
"The Gremlins" | Cosmopolitan (December 1942) | Published under the pen name "Pegasus" | |
"The Sword" | Atlantic Monthly (August 1943) | Reworked as a vignette in Going Solo | |
"Katina" | Ladies Home Journal (March 1944) | Over to You, Grammatizator | |
"Only This" | Ladies Home Journal (September 1944) | Over to You | |
"Beware of the Dog" | Harper's (October 1944) | Over to You, Skin | |
"Missing: Believed Killed" | Tomorrow (November 1944) | Reworked and combined with "Shot Down Over Libya" as "A Piece of Cake" | |
"They Shall Not Grow Old" | Ladies Home Journal (March 1945) | Over to You | |
"Madame Rosette" | Harper's (August 1945) | Over to You; Best | |
"Death of an Old Old Man" | Ladies Home Journal (September 1945) | Over to You | |
"Someone Like You" | Town & Country (November 1945) | Over to You | |
"The Mildenhall Treasure" | Saturday Evening Post (20 September 1947) | Henry Sugar | First published as He Plowed Up $1,000,000 |
"Man from the South" | Collier's Magazine (September 1948) | Tales, Someone Like You, Grammatizator; Best | alternative titles: "Collector's Item", "The Smoker" |
"The Sound Machine" | The New Yorker (17 September 1949) | More Tales, Someone Like You, Skin; Best | |
"Poison" | Collier's (June 1950) | More Tales, Someone Like You | |
"Girl Without a Name" | Today's Woman (November 1951) | Working title "Meet My Sister"; republished in Woman's Journal in December 1951.[4] | |
"Taste" | The New Yorker (8 December 1951) | Tales, Someone Like You, Grammatizator; Best | |
"Dip in the Pool" | The New Yorker (19 January 1952) | Tales, Someone Like You, Skin; Best | |
"Skin" | The New Yorker (17 May 1952) | Tales, Someone Like You, Skin; Best | Initially published as "A Picture for Drioli" |
"My Lady Love, My Dove" | The New Yorker (21 June 1952) | Tales, Someone Like You, Skin | |
"Mr. Feasey" | The New Yorker (August 1953) | Someone Like You, Sweet Mystery; Best | Initially published as "Dog Race". Sometimes "Mr. Feasey", "Mr. Hoddy", Rummins", "The Champion of the World", and "The Ratcatcher" are collected as "Claud's Dog" |
"Lamb to the Slaughter" | Harper's (September 1953) | Tales, Someone Like You, Skin; Best | |
"Nunc Dimittis" | Collier's (September 1953) | Tales, Someone Like You | Initially published as "The Devious Bachelor" |
"Edward the Conqueror" | The New Yorker (31 October 1953) | Kiss Kiss, Tales; Best | |
"Galloping Foxley" | Town & Country (November 1953) | Tales, Someone Like You, Skin; Best | |
"The Way Up to Heaven" | The New Yorker (27 February 1954) | Kiss Kiss, Tales, Grammatizator; Best | |
"Parson's Pleasure" | Esquire (April 1958) | Kiss Kiss, Tales, Grammatizator, Sweet Mystery; Best | |
"The Champion of the World" | The New Yorker (31 January 1959) | Kiss Kiss, Skin, Sweet Mystery; Best | Sometimes "Mr. Feasey", "Mr. Hoddy", Rummins", "The Champion of the World", and "The Ratcatcher" are collected as "Claud's Dog" |
"The Landlady" | The New Yorker (28 November 1959) | Kiss Kiss, Tales, Grammatizator; Best | |
"Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat" | Nugget (December 1959) | Kiss Kiss, Tales, Grammatizator; Best | |
"Genesis and Catastrophe: A True Story" | Playboy (December 1959) | Kiss Kiss, More Tales; Best | Initially published as "A Fine Son" |
"In the Ruins" | Program of the World Book Fair (June 1964) | Set in a post-apocalyptic era[5] | |
"The Visitor" | Playboy (May 1965) | Switch Bitch; Best | |
"The Last Act" | Playboy (January 1966) | Switch Bitch | |
"The Great Switcheroo" | Playboy (April 1974) | Switch Bitch; Best | |
"The Butler" | Travel and Leisure (May 1974) | More Tales, Grammatizator | Initially published as "The Butler Did It" |
"Bitch" | Playboy (July 1974) | Switch Bitch | |
"Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life" | The Daily Telegraph (1974) | Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life | |
"The Hitch-Hiker" | Atlantic Monthly (July 1977) | More Tales, Henry Sugar; Best | |
"The Umbrella Man" | More Tales of the Unexpected (1980) | More Tales, Grammatizator; Best | |
"Mr. Botibol" | More Tales of the Unexpected (1980) | More Tales | |
"Vengeance is Mine Inc." | More Tales (1980) | More Tales, Grammatizator | |
"Princess and the Poacher" | Two Fables (1986) | Two Fables | |
"Princess Mammalia" | Two Fables (1986) | Two Fables | |
"The Bookseller" | Playboy (January 1987) | Best | |
"The Surgeon" | Playboy (January 1988) | Skin | |
"Death in the Square: A Christmas Mystery in Four Parts" [Part 1 by Dahl] | Telegraph Weekend Magazine (24 December 1988, pp36–40) | ||
"An African Story" | Over to You, Skin | ||
"Yesterday Was Beautiful" | Over to You | ||
"The Boy Who Talked with Animals" | Henry Sugar; Best | ||
"Georgy Porgy" | Kiss Kiss, More Tales; Best | ||
"The Great Automatic Grammatizator" | Someone Like You, Grammatizator | ||
"Lucky Break" | Henry Sugar | ||
"Mr. Hoddy" | Someone Like You, Sweet Mystery; Best | Sometimes "Mr. Feasey", "Mr. Hoddy", Rummins", "The Champion of the World", and "The Ratcatcher" are collected as "Claud's Dog" | |
"Neck" | Tales, Someone Like You, Grammatizator | ||
"Pig" | Kiss Kiss; Best | ||
"The Ratcatcher" | Someone Like You, Sweet Mystery; Best | Sometimes "Mr. Feasey", "Mr. Hoddy", Rummins", "The Champion of the World", and "The Ratcatcher" are collected as "Claud's Dog" | |
"Royal Jelly" | Kiss Kiss, Tales, Grammatizator; Best | ||
"Rummins" | Someone Like You, Sweet Mystery; Best | Sometimes "Mr. Feasey", "Mr. Hoddy", Rummins", "The Champion of the World", and "The Ratcatcher" are collected as "Claud's Dog" | |
"The Soldier" | Someone Like You | ||
"The Swan" | Henry Sugar | ||
"William and Mary" | Kiss Kiss, Tales; Best | ||
"The Wish" | Someone Like You, Skin | ||
"The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" | Henry Sugar; Best |
Collections
- — (1946). Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying. USA: Reynal & Hitchcock.
- — (1973). Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (Reprinted ed.). London: Penguin. ISBN 978-0140035742.
- — (1953). Someone Like You. Knopf.
- — (1984). Someone Like You (Rev. and expanded ed.). Harmondsworth: Penguin. ISBN 978-0140030747.
- — (1960). Kiss Kiss. Knopf.
- — (1962). Kiss Kiss. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books.
- — (1974). Switch Bitch. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0394494739.
- — (2012). Switch Bitch (Reissue ed.). London: Michael Joseph. ISBN 978-0241955727.
- — (1977). The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0224015479.
- — (1980). Tales of the Unexpected (Repr. ed.). Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-005131-7.
- — (1980). More Tales of the Unexpected (First ed.). London: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0140056068.
- — (1986). Two Fables. With illustrations by Graham Dean (First ed.). Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Viking/Penguin. ISBN 978-0670815302.
- — (1989). Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life. London: Michael Joseph. ISBN 978-0140118476.
- — (2001). The great automatic grammatizator and other stories. London: Puffin. ISBN 978-0141311500.
- — (2002). Skin and Other Stories. New York: Puffin. ISBN 978-0141310343.
Omnibus editions
- — (1978). The Best of Roald Dahl: stories from Over to You, Someone Like You, Kiss Kiss, Switch Bitch. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0394725499.
- — (1986). The Roald Dahl Omnibus. New York: Dorset Press. ISBN 978-0880291248.
- — (1991). The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl. London: Michael Joseph. ISBN 978-0708987421.
- — (2006). Roald Dahl: Collected Stories (Reissue from 1991 ed.). New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0307264909.
- — (1997). The Roald Dahl Treasury. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0224046916.
- — (2013). The Complete Short Stories: Volume One (1944–1953). London: Michael Joseph. ISBN 978-1405910101.
- — (2013). The Complete Short Stories: Volume Two (1954–1988). London: Michael Joseph. ISBN 978-1405910118.
References
- ^ Sturrock, Donald (2011). "Bibliography". Storyteller : the authorized biography of Roald Dahl. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 625–636. ISBN 9781439189764.
- ^ Schweitzer, Darrell (1985). Discovering Modern Horror Fiction. Wildside Press LLC. pp. 126–128. ISBN 9781587150104.
- ^ Dahl's first published work, though anonymously credited to "an RAF pilot at present in this country for medical reasons."
- ^ Sturrock (2006), p. 598 Note 120
- ^ Merril, Judith. ""In the Ruins": Complete Text with Introduction". Roald Dahl Fans. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
External links
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- 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)
- Revolting Rhymes (1982)
- Dirty Beasts (1983)
- Rhyme Stew (1989)
- Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen (1948)
- My Uncle Oswald (1979)
collections
- Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (1946)
- Someone Like You (1953)
- Kiss Kiss (1960)
- Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl (1969)
- 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)
- The Mildenhall Treasure (1946)
- Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984)
- Going Solo (1986)
- Measles: A Dangerous Illness (1986)
- Memories with Food at Gipsy House (1991)
- Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety (1991)
- My Year (1993)
- 36 Hours (1964)
- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
- Danny, the Champion of the World (1989)
- The BFG (1989)
- Breaking Point (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)
- Revolting Rhymes (2016)
- Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (2017)
- The Witches (2020)
- Matilda the Musical (2022)
- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)
- Wonka (2023)
- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (2024)
- The Twits (2025)
- 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)
- The Honeys (1955)
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (1998)
- Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka (2004)
- The Witches (2008)
- The Golden Ticket (2010)
- James and the Giant Peach (2010)
- Matilda (2010)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013)
- Fantastic Mr Fox (2016)
- The Witches (2023)
- Bibliography
- Short stories bibliography
- Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories (1983)
- Gipsy House
- Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre
- Roald Dahl Children's Gallery
- Patricia Neal (wife)
- Olivia Dahl (daughter)
- Tessa Dahl (daughter)
- Ophelia Dahl (daughter)
- Lucy Dahl (daughter)
- Sophie Dahl (granddaughter)
- Phoebe Dahl (granddaughter)
- Felicity Dahl (second wife)
- Quentin Blake
- Wade-Dahl-Till valve
- Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse (2020)
- To Olivia (2021)
- Revision controversy