The Landlady by Roald Dahl has haunted me for over half my life.
I first read these thirteen pages of creepiness way back in 2004 for year 8 English, and I still remember the double whammy of horror it hit me with. First wham: crazy taxidermist lady poisons attractive young men so she can keep them forever in her home. Second wham: Roald Dahl writes stuff for grown ups?
I wasn’t sure if between now and year 8 English I’d augmented the gruesomeness of it in my head, distorted it out of all proportion, made it darker, made it grosser, but I can safely say I hadn’t.
The Landlady is still terrfiying.
And the more I think about it, the more I realise most of Roald Dahl’s stories are – at least a little bit.
Third wham.
Joanna Corbet 
This almost feels like a dare… I’m so curious to read these now
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They’re so so good… definitely worth a read, I promise! 🙂
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My husband is currently reading Roald Dahl’s Madness….Tales of Fear and Unreason. I’m going to check this out for him too !
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Ooh, I’ll have to check out that collection too! It probably sounds silly, but I’d forgotten how great a storyteller Roald Dahl was and it’s been so much fun (as well as scary!) revisiting his writing.
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I had no idea Dahl wrote for grownups- I’m really curious about this now!
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I still remember being sat in that English class trying to understand how it was possible that Roald Dahl wrote stories that weren’t for children lol. But he totally did, and they’re totally terrifying!
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That’s so cool!!
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