This is a list of all the short stories that Roald Dahl wrote. They are listed alphabetically and link to pages of information. You can also see a timeline of these stories arranged chronologically. Please send through any questions, comments, and corrections.
Note: If you want to own the most complete collection of all of Dahl’s short stories, you need to get The Complete Short Stories: Volume One and Volume Two.
- “A Connoisseur’s Revenge”
- “A Fine Son”
- “A Picture for Drioli”
- “A Piece of Cake”
- “Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life, at Last I’ve Found Thee”
- “Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life”
- “An African Story”
- “B***h”
- “Beware of the Dog”
- “Black Mamba”
- “Collector’s Item”
- “Death in the Square: A Christmas Mystery in Four Parts”
- “Death of an Old Old Man”
- “Dip in the Pool”
- “Dog Race”
- “Edward the Conqueror”
- “Foreign Intelligence”
- “Galloping Foxley”
- “Genesis and Catastrophe”
- “Georgy Porgy”
- “Going Up”
- “In the Ruins”
- “Katina”
- “Lamb to the Slaughter”
- “Lucky Break”
- “Madame Rosette”
- “Man From the South”
- “Missing: Believed Killed”
- “Mr. Botibol”
- “Mr. Feasey”
- “Mr. Hoddy”
- “Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat”
- “Mrs. Mulligan”
- “Murder in Africa”
- “My Lady Love, My Dove”
- “Neck”
- “Nineteen Fifty What?”
- “Nunc Dimittis”
- “Only This”
- “Parson’s Pleasure”
- “Pig”
- “Poison”
- “Princess Mammalia”
- “Royal Jelly”
- “Rummins”
- “Shot Down Over Libya”
- “Sitting Pretty”
- “Skin”
- “Smoked Cheese”
- “Someone Like You”
- “Taste”
- “The Bookseller”
- “The Boy Who Talked with Animals”
- “The Butler Did It”
- “The Butler”
- “The Champion of the World”
- “The Devious Bachelor”
- “The Dogchild”
- “The Ginger Cat”
- “The Girl Without a Name”
- “The Great Automatic Grammatizator”
- “The Great Switcheroo”
- “The Gremlins”
- “The Hitchhiker”
- “The Kumbak II”
- “The Landlady”
- “The Last Act”
- “The Mildenhall Treasure”
- “The Princess and the Poacher”
- “The Ratcatcher”
- “The Soldier”
- “The Sound Machine”
- “The Surgeon”
- “The Swan”
- “The Sword”
- “The Umbrella Man”
- “The Upsidedown Mice”
- “The Visitor”
- “The Way Up to Heaven”
- “The Wish”
- “The Woman Who Never Died”
- “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”
- “They Shall Not Grow Old”
- “Twenty Years Younger”
- “Vengeance is Mine, Inc.”
- “William and Mary”
- “World Leaders”
- “Yesterday was Beautiful”
- “Gremlins… A Warning!”