Roald Dahl is, or should be, well known for his superb and highly imaginative stories for children, but he also had a remarkable and very different talent for adult literature. He always displays an acid, witty and even macabre sense of humour, insisting on human miseries: greed, deceit and revenge are mixed up from apparently innocent attitudes to obtain surprising and sometimes exhilarating results. If you read all the tales in a row, as I did, you may be a little exhausted at the end, but you can always switch to something else and come back later. There is real good material in here, like "Parson's pleasure", "William and Mary", "The hitchhiker", "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's coat" or "Genesis and catastrophe". Very recommended!