Upon Cornelius’s death the narrator receives a big crate containing all thirty-six volumes of the old man’s scandalous memoirs, detailing his outrageous sexual escapades, mainly during the 1940s. The nameless narrator claims to be a nephew of Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, a rich bachelor and connoisseur, collector of spiders and scorpions, expert on Chinese pottery, and unstoppable philanderer. The Visitor (first published in Playboy May 1965) Undemanding, obsessed with sex, sometimes very funny, sometimes gruesome. Basically, they are stories for teenagers or for middle-brow readers on holiday. Switch Bitch (1974) contains four medium-length stories, making up a slender paperback of just 130 or so pages. More recently, Penguin have published his ‘Complete Short Stories’ volumes one and two. Over the years these were collected together in ten or so collections, and further rounded up into six ‘collected’ or ‘best of’ selections. But in this case, I stood there absolutely transfixed.Īpart from his well-known children’s novels, Dahl also wrote movie screenplays, TV scripts, and some fifty-four short stories for adults which appeared in various magazines throughout his career, the first in 1942, the last in 1988.
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