Someone Like You (collection)

This article is about the Roald Dahl short story collection. For other uses, see Someone Like You (disambiguation).

Someone Like You

File:Someone like you.gif Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Roald Dahl
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Mystery Horror Science fiction short stories
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Publication date	1953
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	359 pp

Someone Like You is a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl. It was published in 1953 by Alfred Knopf.

Contents

• "Dip in the Pool"
• "Galloping Foxley"
• "Lamb to the Slaughter"
• "Man from the South"
• "Mr. Feasey"
• "Mr. Hoddy"
• "My Lady Love, My Dove"
• "Neck"
• "Nunc Dimittis"
• "Poison"
• "Rummins"
• "Skin"
• "Taste"
• "The Great Automatic Grammatizator"
• "The Ratcatcher"
• "The Soldier"
• "The Sound Machine"
• "The Wish"

Reception

Boucher and 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."

Awards

• Edgar Award, 1954