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The Landlady

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })"The Landlady" is a short horror story by Roald Dahl, first published in The New Yorker in 1959 and anthologized numerous times since.It starts out with Billy, a young Londoner, arriving in Bath on business and looking for a place to stay. He finds a cozy-looking bed and breakfast inn with a quaint old woman inside, who welcomes him to stay, just like the other young men she's been fond of.The story was adapted for a 1961 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and a 1979 episode of Tales of the Unexpected.
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 Adaptation Expansion: Both the Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Tales of the Unexpected adaptations of this story expand upon the ending, showing Billy die from being poisoned. The Tales of the Unexpected adaptation goes one step farther, and not only shows the other tenants, but also shows the landlady begin the process of taxidermying Billy.
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 Ambiguous Ending: What it might seem to those not very attentive to details or simply unfamiliar to Bitter Almonds trope. If you belong to neither of these, however, the ending is unambiguously Downer.
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 Affably Evil: The eponymous landlady is a sweet old woman, she just feels lonely. And is an unrepentant murderer.
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 Adaptational Karma: In the Alfred Hitchcock Presents version, the landlady is arrested offscreen after turning Billy's corpse into a rug.
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