Someone Like You (collection)

Someone Like You is a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl. It was published in 1953 by Alfred Knopf.

Contents

• "Dip in the Pool"
• "Galloping Foxley"
• "Lamb to the Slaughter"
• "Man from the South"
• "Mr. Feasey"
• "Mr. Hoddy"
• "My Lady Love, My Dove"
• "Neck"
• "Nunc Dimittis"
• "Poison"
• "Rummins"
• "Skin"
• "Taste"
• "The Great Automatic Grammatizator"
• "The Ratcatcher"
• "The Soldier"
• "The Sound Machine"
• "The Wish"

Reception

Boucher and McComas praised the collection's "subtly devastating murder stories [as well as] two biting science-fantasties, plus a few unclassifiable gems" and concluded the volume "belong[ed] on your shelves somewhere in the Beerbohm/Collier/Saki section."^[1]

Awards

• Edgar Award, 1954^[1]

References

Further reading

• Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 125. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.