Roald Dahl short stories bibliography

Roald Dahl short stories bibliography is a comprehensive annotated list of short stories written by Roald Dahl.

Published in books

• "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life" - First published in The Daily Telegraph in 1974
• "An African Story"
• "Beware of the Dog" - First published in Harper's in October 1944.
• "Bitch" - First published in Playboy in July 1974.
• "The Bookseller" - First published in Playboy in January 1986.
• "The Boy Who Talked with Animals"
• "The Butler"
• "The Champion of the World" - First published in The New Yorker on 31 January 1959.
• "Death of an Old Old Man" - First published in Ladies Home Journal in September 1945.
• "Dip in the Pool" - First published in The New Yorker on 19 January 1952.
• "Edward the Conqueror" - First published in The New Yorker on 31 October 1953.
• "Galloping Foxley" - First published in Town & Country in November 1953.
• "Genesis and Catastrophe: A True Story"
• "Georgy Porgy"
• "The Great Automatic Grammatizator"
• "The Great Switcheroo" - First published in Playboy in April 1974.
• "The Hitch-Hiker" - First published in Atlantic Monthly in July 1977.
• "Katina" - First published in Ladies Home Journal in March 1944.
• "Lamb to the Slaughter" - First published in Harper's in September 1953.
• "The Landlady" - First published in The New Yorker on 28 November 1959.
• "The Last Act" - First published in Playboy in January 1966.
• "Lucky Break"
• "Madame Rosette" - First published in Harper's in August 1945.
• "Man from the South" - An alternative title for "Collector's Item" or "The Smoker."
• "The Mildenhall Treasure"
• "Mr. Botibol"
• "Mr. Feasey"
• "Mr. Hoddy"
• "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat" - First published in Nugget in December 1959.
• "My Lady Love, My Dove" - First published in The New Yorker on 21 June 1952.
• "Neck"
• "Nunc Dimittis" - An alternative title for "The Devious Bachelor."
• "Only This" - First published in Ladies Home Journal in September 1944.
• "Parson's Pleasure" - First published in Esquire in April 1958.
• "A Piece of Cake" - Revised and re-titled version of "Shot Down Over Libya" published in Dahl's first anthology Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying in 1946.
• "Pig"
• "Poison" - First published in Collier's in June 1950.
• "Princess and the Poacher" - First published in 1986 in Two Fables, to celebrate Dahl's 70th birthday.
• "Princess Mammalia" - First published in 1986 in Two Fables, to celebrate Dahl's 70th birthday.
• "The Ratcatcher"
• "Royal Jelly" - included in an Alfred Hitchcock short story collection. About a father who feeds his daughter royal jelly with horrendous results. Story has a twist at the end.
• "Rummins"
• "Skin" - First published in The New Yorker on 17 May 1952.
• "The Soldier"
• "Someone Like You" - First published in Town & Country in November 1945.
• "The Sound Machine" - First published in The New Yorker on 17 September 1949.
• "The Surgeon" - First published in Playboy in January 1988.
• "The Swan"
• "Taste" - First published in Ladies Home Journal in March 1945.
• "They Shall Not Grow Old"
• "The Umbrella Man"
• "Vengeance is Mine Inc."
• "The Visitor" - First published in Playboy in May 1965.
• "The Way Up to Heaven" - First published in The New Yorker on 27 February 1954.
• "William and Mary"
• "The Wish"
• "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar"
• "Yesterday was Beautiful"

Others

• "Collector's Item" - First published in Collier's on 4 September 1948.
• "The Devious Bachelor" - First published in Collier's on 4 September 1953.
• "Death in the Square: A Christmas Mystery in Four Parts" - [part 1 by Dahl] Telegraph Weekend Magazine, 24 December 1988, pp36–40.
• "A Fine Son" - First published in Playboy in December 1959.
• "Shot Down Over Libya" - First published on 1 August 1942 in Saturday Evening Post. Dahl's first published work, though anonymously credited to "an RAF pilot at present in this country for medical reasons." Revised as "A Piece of Cake."

External links

• Works by or about Roald Dahl in libraries (WorldCat catalog)