Even a sweet story like a boy going to live with his vegetarian grandmother, like in The Witches, turned out to have a far more horrifying result than I expected. In his adult fiction, Dahl rolls up his sleeves, wipes away the creamy kiddie layer and lets it hang out in all its macabre glory. If it were Stephen King writing, you'd get a better sense of how twisted these situations are.Ī children's writer and a horror/thriller writer. He has a husband and wife play pranks on each other, one of which leaves the other floating up into the clear blue with her arms trussed up. He has two aunts steamrolled by a giant peach in James and the Giant Peach and left for dead. He has a kid squeezed up a narrow pipe in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and experiences an impromptu liposuction. If it were Stephen King writing, you'd get a better sense of how twisted these situati If you really think about it, Roald Dahl is one sick bastard.
If you really think about it, Roald Dahl is one sick bastard.
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