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Lamb to the Slaughter" is a 1954 short story by Roald Dahl. It was initially rejected, along with four other stories, by The New Yorker, but was published in Harper's Magazine in September 1953. [1] It was adapted for an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (AHP) that starred Barbara Bel Geddes and Harold J. Stone.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Lamb to the Slaughter; The Landlady (short story) The Last Act; M. Man from the South; Mr. Botibol;
Lamb to the Slaughter; Galloping Foxley; The Way Up to Heaven; Parson's Pleasure; The Landlady; William and Mary; Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat; Royal Jelly; Georgy Porgy; Genesis and Catastrophe; Pig; The Visitor; Claud's Dog The Ratcatcher; Rummins; Mr Hoddy; Mr Feasey; The Champion of the World
"Lamb to the Slaughter" "Man from the South" "My Lady Love, My Dove" "Dip in the Pool" "Galloping Foxley" "Skin" "Neck" "Nunc Dimittis" "The Landlady" "William and Mary" "The Way Up to Heaven" "Parson's Pleasure" "Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat" "Royal Jelly" "Edward the Conqueror"
Groff Conklin called Someone Like You "certainly the most distinguished book of short stories of 1953 ... all superb". [2] Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas praised the collection's "subtly devastating murder stories [as well as] two biting science-fantasties, plus a few unclassifiable gems" and concluded the volume "belong[ed] on your shelves somewhere in the Beerbohm/Collier/Saki section".
He followed this with a television script, "Lamb to the Slaughter", for the Alfred Hitchcock Presents series. He co-wrote screenplays for film, including for You Only Live Twice (1967) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). [10] [11] In 1982 Dahl published the first of three editions of poems aimed at children.
"Lamb to the Slaughter" Harper's (September 1953) Tales, Someone Like You, Skin; Best "Nunc Dimittis" Collier's (September 1953) Tales, Someone Like You: Initially published as "The Devious Bachelor" "Edward the Conqueror" The New Yorker (31 October 1953) Kiss Kiss, Tales; Best "Galloping Foxley" Town & Country (November 1953) Tales, Someone ...
A Lamb to the Slaughter: An Artist Among the Battlefields, a 1984 book by Jan Montyn and Dirk Ayelt Kooiman, ISBN 0-285-62621-3 "Lamb to the Slaughter", a song by a-ha from their 1993 album Memorial Beach; Lambs to the Slaughter, a 1979 memoir by Australian cricketer Graham Yallop