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The Furnished Room" is a short story about love and dedication, about exhaustion and despair. A young man is in search of a girl he fell in love with. He rents a room near the theaters where she is to be seen and he devotes his days to the dream of finding her. ...

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It tells the story of an upper-class family spending an afternoon in Darjeeling, a picturesque hill town in West Bengal.

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The story of "He said it was arsenic", starts off with the introduction of certain type of killers. William Jones is one such type who is a magnificent killer for he kills his victims smoothly with no violence.

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A modern-day science fiction

The story “Too Dear!” is a parody of one of the modern systems of governance. It ridicules the ways of punishing criminals and dispensing justice in modern states. The story is narrated in a matter-of fact-tone but with an undercurrent of sarcasm.

Atthanniyaan weaves together 18 of Gulzar’s poems and three of his short stories that show you a very atypical perception of the ‘Mumbai life’.A half-dead-half-alive existence that Mumbaikars thrive on, much like a fish on the seashore, lying in the midst of land and water, neither choosing to live in water nor die on land

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The story is about two friends Deepak (narrator) and Arun. It highlights the importance of learning and education and the consequences of its deficit. Deepak was an illiterate teenager who had developed a bad habit of stealing. Arun, on the other hand, was an educated and responsible adult and compassionate in his make-up.Deepak meets Arun in a street scuffle and marks him as his next victim. He develops friendly conversation with him and talks him into giving him a job as his cook. However, he does not know how to cook. Arun not only helps him learn cooking but also teaches him basic writing.

This week on Macmillan Kahani Café series of short-stories by Roald Dahl is ‘Skin’. A story where Roald Dahl delves into the genre of macabre of add to his usual style of unexpected ending

"The Landlady" is a short horror story by Roald Dahl. It initially appeared in The New Yorker, which was later reprinted in the 1960 anthology, Kiss Kiss.Billy Weaver is a seventeen-year-old youth who has travelled by train from London to Bath to start a new job. Looking for lodgings, he comes across a boarding-house and feels strangely compelled by its sign saying "Bed and Breakfast". To know what happed next, listen to the podcast

This story by Roald Dahl is about a newly rich man who tries to buy his way up the social ladder. He employs an expensive butler and French chef and hosts many lavish dinner parties. To impress his guests, he buys some of the world’s best wines and learns a lot about them. What he doesn’t learn about are the things that should and shouldn’t be served with fine wine and how to enjoy it. The butler takes advantage of this, and in so doing puts an end to the rich man’s high society hopes.

Lamb to the Slaughter" is a 1954 short story by Roald Dahl. It was initially rejected, along with four other stories, by The New Yorker, but was published in Harper's Magazine in September 1953. It was adapted for an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents that starred Barbara Bel Geddes and Harold J. Stone.