Kiss Kiss

By Roald Dahl

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Roald Dahl's 1960 collection gathers eleven tales for grown-up readers, macabre stories of suspense and cruelty, several of which first appeared in The New Yorker. Its contents are "The Landlady," "William and Mary," "The Way Up to Heaven," "Parson's Pleasure," "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat," "Royal Jelly," "Georgy Porgy," "Genesis and Catastrophe," "Edward the Conqueror," "Pig" and "The Champion of the World," a story about poaching pheasants that Dahl expanded into his 1975 children's novel Danny the Champion of the World.

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