Includes the story The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar now an ACADEMY AWARD(R)-winning short film from Wes Anderson on Netflix A collection of the best short stories from a writer with an ingenious imagination a fascination with odd and ordinary detail and a lust for its thorough exploitation (The New York Times Book Review). If Stephen King could write with murderous concision he might have come up with The Landlady the story of a boarding house with an oddly talented proprietress and a small but permanent clientele. If Clive Barker had a sense of humor he might have written Pig a brutally funny look at cooks and vegetarianism. And a more bloodthirsty Jorge Luis Borges might have imagined the fanatical little gambler in Man From the South who does his betting with a hammer nails and a butcher knife. But all these stories in this volume were written by Roald Dahl whose genius for the horrific and grotesque is unparalleled and entirely his own.