Tales of the Unexpected

Tales of the UnexpectedBy: Roald Dahl Includes the story "Poison," now a short film from Wes Anderson on Netflix In this collection of stories, Dahl tantalizes, amuses, and sometimes terrifies readers about what lurks beneath the ordinary. With the inventive power of a Thomas Edison and the imagination of a Lewis Carroll . . . Roald Dahl is a wizard of comedy and the grotesque, an artist with a marvelously topsy turvy sense of the ridiculous in life. Cleveland Plain Dealer

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Life isn't much fun at all

her purity and beauty are nothing less than breathtaking

In In Order to Live

I was heading off on an adventure in one of my very favorite places: Egypt

The Prodigal Son Mission on Mulberry Bend stands as a refuge for girls who otherwise would have to live by selling the only thing they have of value—themselves

"Fantasy fans will like the idea of sirens and piratelike princes as the characters who are imaginative and well developed

and yet—not just dazzling

Lesser in the end shows us how

Patricia Highsmith’s famously amoral character (a clear inspiration for Kepnes)

There are winged horses that live in the mirrors of Briar Hill

Umbrella Academy creators Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá are joined by Way's Killjoys cowriter Shaun Simon (Collapser) and artist I