Roald Dahl short stories bibliography is a comprehensive annotated list of short stories written by Roald Dahl.[1][2]
| 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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "Dip in the Pool" | The New Yorker (19 January 1952) | Tales, Someone Like You, Skin; Best |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "Galloping Foxley" | Town & Country (November 1953) | Tales, Someone Like You, Skin; Best |
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| "The Way Up to Heaven" | The New Yorker (27 February 1954) | Kiss Kiss, Tales, Grammatizator; Best |
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| "Parson's Pleasure" | Esquire (April 1958) | Kiss Kiss, Tales, Grammatizator, Sweet Mystery; Best |
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| "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 |
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| "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat" | Nugget (December 1959) | Kiss Kiss, Tales, Grammatizator; Best |
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| "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 |
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| "The Last Act" | Playboy (January 1966) | Switch Bitch | |
| "The Great Switcheroo" | Playboy (April 1974) | Switch Bitch; Best |
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| "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 |
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| "The Umbrella Man" | More Tales of the Unexpected (1980) | More Tales, Grammatizator; Best |
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| "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 |
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| "Georgy Porgy" | Kiss Kiss, More Tales; Best |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "The Wish" | Someone Like You, Skin | ||
| "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" | Henry Sugar; Best |