This news item reminded me of a Roald Dahl tale in a volume I read again and again as a child.
(I think the stories I read most obsessively at that age were inevitably the Sherlock Holmes ones, and certainly R. L. Stevenson and other late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century tales of the uncanny, but Dahl's children's stories and also the stories of Joan Aiken were also a major influence....)
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A strange story, if I recall--didn't it begin as a journalistic piece?
ReplyDelete(The Dahl, that is.)
ReplyDeleteIn other news, I have been reading Dahl around the edges, spurred by Wodehouse's recommendation in a letter of a story about an elevator (turns out to be 'The Way Up to Heaven") and reissues of Switch Bitch and My Uncle Oswald...