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The Landlady
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"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 owned by a sweetly quaint old woman, 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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| The Landlady / int_177a6464 | type |
Genre Shift | |
| The Landlady / int_177a6464 | comment |
Genre Shift: Until the very end, it appears to just be a little Slice of Life story. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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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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Crapsaccharine World | |
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Crapsaccharine World: The B&B appears nice, but really isn't. | |
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Ambiguous Ending | |
| The Landlady / int_42215dce | comment |
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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Wax Museum Morgue | |
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Wax Museum Morgue: The twist of the story. | |
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| The Landlady / int_537dd8fe | type |
Affably Evil | |
| The Landlady / int_537dd8fe | comment |
Affably Evil: The eponymous landlady is a sweet old woman, she just feels lonely. And is an unrepentant murderer. | |
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| The Landlady / int_641cf81d | type |
Viewers Are Geniuses | |
| The Landlady / int_641cf81d | comment |
Viewers Are Geniuses: Although you can eventually realize what the landlady's problem is, you can't understand the true horror of the story unless you're familiar with the Bitter Almonds trope. | |
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| The Landlady / int_6a25c388 | type |
Mummies at the Dinner Table | |
| The Landlady / int_6a25c388 | comment |
Mummies at the Dinner Table: It's what the eponymous landlady does to her dead pets, as well as the guests she murders. | |
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The Thing That Would Not Leave | |
| The Landlady / int_6fed1f70 | comment |
The Thing That Would Not Leave: Tragically and permanently inverted. | |
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| The Landlady / int_7301ae04 | type |
Serial Killer | |
| The Landlady / int_7301ae04 | comment |
Serial Killer: The Landlady is heavily implied to be one with an MO of poisoning young men and stuffing their corpses. | |
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| The Landlady / int_7b5c69c8 | type |
Dirty Old Woman | |
| The Landlady / int_7b5c69c8 | comment |
Dirty Old Woman: She's really got a thing for young, handsome men. | |
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| The Landlady / int_92c112f7 | type |
Bitter Almonds | |
| The Landlady / int_92c112f7 | comment |
Bitter Almonds: Discussed trope: when the landlady offers Billy some more tea near the end, he turns it down, since it tasted like bitter almonds. | |
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| The Landlady / int_a74bd88e | type |
Taxidermy Terror | |
| The Landlady / int_a74bd88e | comment |
Taxidermy Terror: Semi-averted; the stuffed dog and parrot are pleasant-looking and amazingly lifelike, and the horror only comes when you realize the landlady is applying the same techniques to the young men she "collects". | |
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| The Landlady / int_af3be43f | type |
Mundane Horror | |
| The Landlady / int_af3be43f | comment |
Mundane Horror: A nice small bed-and-breakfast with a friendly host, where nearly every small detail implies something creepy. It has only two guests who are still there though they checked in more than a year ago, and are "known for one and the same thing" (having gone missing); the host gives her guests tea which tastes like Bitter Almonds. Guess the implications? | |
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| The Landlady / int_b5e23d81 | type |
The Collector | |
| The Landlady / int_b5e23d81 | comment |
The Collector: The old woman herself freely admits to stuffing her old pets that have passed on. She collects other things too... | |
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| The Landlady / int_c5249b29 | type |
Nice Guy | |
| The Landlady / int_c5249b29 | comment |
Nice Guy: Billy | |
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| The Landlady / int_ca69cb4d | type |
Adaptational Karma | |
| The Landlady / int_ca69cb4d | comment |
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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| The Landlady / int_cb70651c | type |
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
| The Landlady / int_cb70651c | comment |
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: A complicated example. Originally, the story was going to be a straight "ghost story," but Dahl was unhappy with it and rewrote it to be more mundane. There are still hints of the supernatural, like Billy being compelled by the landlady's sign. It's very common for the landlady to be interpreted as a witch. | |
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| The Landlady / int_dd608032 | type |
Hell Hotel | |
| The Landlady / int_dd608032 | comment |
Hell Hotel: What it actually turns out to be, although it appears pleasant. | |
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| The Landlady / int_e9f7b815 | type |
Creepy Housekeeper | |
| The Landlady / int_e9f7b815 | comment |
Creepy Housekeeper: The titular character. | |
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
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Mundane Horror / int_2e052899 | |
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Not the First Victim / int_2e052899 | |
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Short Story / int_2e052899 | |
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The Landlady |
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