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Someone Like You (short story collection)

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praised the collection's "subtly devastating murder stories two biting science-fantasties, plus a few unclassifiable gems" and concluded the volume "belong on your shelves somewhere in the
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It contains eighteen short stories. The final four are grouped under a collective title.
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Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl
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Two of the stories in this collection were adapted by
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Index


Roald Dahl
Mystery
horror
science fiction
Alfred A. Knopf
1953
short stories
Roald Dahl
Alfred Knopf
Taste
Lamb to the Slaughter
Man from the South
My Lady Love, My Dove
Dip in the Pool
Galloping Foxley
Skin
Poison
Neck
Nunc Dimittis
The Great Automatic Grammatizator
Groff Conklin
Anthony Boucher
J. Francis McComas
Beerbohm
Collier
Saki
Van Morrison
Someone Like You
Wes Anderson

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