"The Landlady" and Other Short Stories Roald Dahl

One of Roald Dahl’s most popular, anthologized, and filmed stories is “Lamb to the Slaughter.” The title is an allusion to the ritualistic killing of lambs as part of an animal sacrifice. The contextual concept inherent in the reference is that...

In P.K. Page’s 1943 poem, “The Landlady,” the main character, the landlady, gives readers an uneasy feeling. This is because the speaker of the poem portrays the landlady in a complexly eerie manner. In the poem, the speaker describes the landlady...

Roald Dahl and William Faulkner explore the curious connection between love and death through their tales of passion-induced murder. Dahl's "The Landlady" and Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" are remarkably similar, but diverge on key elements of the...