Roald Dahl

Fiction, from 1959: “ ‘We have it all to ourselves,’ ” she said, smiling at him over her shoulder as she led the way upstairs.”

For some months Claud had been poaching on the property of Mr. Victor Hazel, an arrogant, rich, self-made manufacturer of pies & sausages, without any …

An Englishman acquired two black greyhound dogs that looked exactly alike and he worked out a scheme to win a lot of money with them. One dog was a slow …

Fiction, from 1949: “The noise of the tree was worse than any known human noise, because of that frightening, toneless, throatless quality.”