The Best of Roald Dahl: Stories from Over to You, Someone Like You, Kiss Kiss, Switch Bitch [B1911]

1978 PB with wear and tanned pages. This collection brings together Dahl's finest (adult) work, illustrating his genius for the horrific and grotesque, which is unparalleled. "Dahl has the mastery of plot and characters possessed by great writers of the past, along with a wildness and wryness of his own. One of his trademarks is writing beautifully about the ugly, even the horrible." --"Los Angeles Times. "An ingenious imagination, a fascination with odd and ordinary detail, and a lust for its thorough exploitation are the...strengths of Dahl's storytelling." --New York Times Book Review.

From recent-ish Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Delightfully twisted."; "Dare I say Dahl is almost unparalleled in storytelling on this scale. His style that I experienced as a child in his children's books translate impeccably to this dark, twisted, comedic, grisly twist in tone. So many of these stories gave me quite a chill down my spine upon finishing, and others made me audibly chortle. Simply a wonderful selection of stories."; "Well & yes!! Roald was for sure a little (or a lot) racist & sexist but I'm taking that with a slight grain of salt due to the times. He takes you into the story immediately, he sure knows how to write people grotesquely, and his stories are so well researched, the niche topics making it all the more impressive."; "Nobody ever did it or could do it like Roald did."