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Whoa, it's Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected on steroid!
I read these stories a couple of years back from a book I loaned from someone I couldn't remember, and at some point couldn't even get the title of this book out of my head, but I always remember the stories it contains. Yes, they are macabre, but that's not (the only reason) why they are so haunting. It's the originality of turning something so believeably banal like travelling salesman and young boys playing board games into outrageous ...more
I read these stories a couple of years back from a book I loaned from someone I couldn't remember, and at some point couldn't even get the title of this book out of my head, but I always remember the stories it contains. Yes, they are macabre, but that's not (the only reason) why they are so haunting. It's the originality of turning something so believeably banal like travelling salesman and young boys playing board games into outrageous ...more
