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[[File:Roald Dahl.jpg|thumb|300px|Roald Dahl in 1954]]
'''Roald Dahl''' (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) is a Norwegian-British author who has become famous for his distinctively dark children's novels. His style is very [[Black Comedy]], and as a result the stories contain a good deal of more-than-usually sophisticated [[Nightmare Fuel]]. The fact that his target audience has been happily lapping all this up for decades now seems to imply that many kids actually ''like'' to be terrified (hey, it works for ''[[Doctor Who]]'').
Put bluntly, Dahl seems to have used writing for children as an acceptable means to beat on [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|all that he hated and feared in his fellow man]]. And on the evidence as presented, gosh there was a lot. The majority of his works in the genre feature adult villains menacing innocent young children (or, in a couple of memorable cases, fuzzy little animals) more or less [[For the Evulz|just because they can]]. Sometimes these are traditional boogeymen (e.g., The Grand High Witch in ''[[The Witches]]'', the Giants in ''[[The BFG]]'') but more often they're simply irredeemably vile and/or stupid grownups. Just how irredeemable is spelled out in exquisite detail on almost every page.
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