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Two Fables
First editions
Author	Roald Dahl
Cover artist	Bet Ayer
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Publisher	Viking
Publication date	1986
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	64 p.
ISBN	978-0-670-81530-2
OCLC	230987654
Dewey Decimal	823/.914[F]
LC Class	PR6054.A35

Two Fables is a collection of two short stories by Roald Dahl, first published in 1986 by Viking in England and in 1987 by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux in the United States.

It contains the following two stories:

"Princess and the Poacher"
"Princess Mammalia"

v t e Roald Dahl
Children's fiction	The Gremlins (1943) James and the Giant Peach (1961) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) The Magic Finger (1966) Fantastic Mr Fox (1970) Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972) Danny, the Champion of the World (1975) The Enormous Crocodile (1978) The Twits (1980) George's Marvellous Medicine (1981) The BFG (1982) The Witches (1983) The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me (1985) Matilda (1988) Esio Trot (1990) The Vicar of Nibbleswicke (1991) The Minpins (1991)
Children's poetry	Revolting Rhymes (1982) Dirty Beasts (1983) Rhyme Stew (1989)
Adult novels	Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen (1948) My Uncle Oswald (1979)
Short story collections	Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (1946) Someone Like You (1953) Kiss Kiss (1960) Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl (1969) Switch Bitch (1974) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More (1977) The Best of Roald Dahl (1978) Tales of the Unexpected (1979) More Tales of the Unexpected (1980) The Roald Dahl Omnibus (1986) Two Fables (1986) Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl (1989) The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl (1991) The Roald Dahl Treasury (1997) The Great Automatic Grammatizator (1998) Skin and Other Stories (2000) Roald Dahl: Collected Stories (2006)
Non-fiction	The Mildenhall Treasure (1946) Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984) Going Solo (1986) Measles: A Dangerous Illness (1986) Memories with Food at Gipsy House (1991) Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety (1991) My Year (1993)
Film adaptations	36 Hours (1964) Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) Danny, the Champion of the World (1989) The BFG (1989) Breaking Point (1989) The Witches (1990) Four Rooms (1995) James and the Giant Peach (1996) Matilda (1996) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) Roald Dahl's Esio Trot (2015) The BFG (2016) Revolting Rhymes (2016) Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (2017) The Witches (2020) Matilda the Musical (2022) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023) Wonka (2023) The Twits (2025)
Film scripts	The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling (1966, unfinished) You Only Live Twice (1967) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) The Night Digger (1971) Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Television series	'Way Out (1961) Tales of the Unexpected (1979–88) episodes
Musicals and plays	The Honeys (1955) Fantastic Mr. Fox (1998) Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka (2004) The Witches (2008) The Golden Ticket (2010) James and the Giant Peach (2010) Matilda (2010) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013) Fantastic Mr Fox (2016) The Witches (2023)
See also	Bibliography Short stories bibliography Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories (1983) Gipsy House Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre Roald Dahl Children's Gallery Patricia Neal (wife) Olivia Dahl (daughter) Tessa Dahl (daughter) Ophelia Dahl (daughter) Lucy Dahl (daughter) Sophie Dahl (granddaughter) Phoebe Dahl (granddaughter) Felicity Dahl (second wife) Quentin Blake Wade-Dahl-Till valve Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse (2020) To Olivia (2021) Roald Dahl revision controversy

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