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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 ''[[
Put bluntly, Dahl seems to have used writing for children as an acceptable means to beat on [[Humans Are Bastards|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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== His most famous works: ==
* ''[[The BFG]]''
* ''[[Charlie and
* ''[[Fantastic Mr. Fox]]''
* ''[[Danny, the Champion of
* ''[[The Enormous Crocodile]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[James and
* ''[[Matilda (
* ''[[My Uncle Oswald]]''
* ''[[Sometimes Never a Fable For Supermen]]'', his most pessimistic work.
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* ''[[The Witches]]''
...but he has written many, many, many more, perhaps most notably ''Going Solo'', a non-fiction book about his experiences as an RAF fighter pilot in WWII (Oh, and he wrote the screenplay to ''[[
He also wrote various collections of fiction for adults, most of which had a lot of similarly black humour, and most of which was quite disturbing. Let's just say, before he was known as a master of children's stories, he was known as "The Master of the Macabre", and it shows. A lot. Many of these stories have been adapted into ''[[Tales of the Unexpected]]''.
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