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Line 1: {{work}} ''']]The Landlady']]'' is a short horror story by [[Roald Dahl]]. It starts out with Billy, a young British man, looking for a place to stay. He finds the {{~~smallcaps~~small-caps\|BED AND BREAKFAST INN}} and a quaint old woman inside, who welcomes him to stay, just like the ''other'' young men she's been fond of. It's pretty much [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]] to anyone who knows what {{spoiler\|[[Bitter Almonds]]}} signify. For landladies in general appearing in fiction, check out [[Landlady]]. ~~----~~ ~~== Tropes used by The Landlady ==~~ {{tropelist}} * [[Affably Evil]] * {{spoiler\|[[Bitter Almonds]]: Billy thought to himself that his tea tastes like bitter almonds, which was cyanide that the landlady used to poison him so she could stuff him.}} Line 22 ⟶ 21: [[Category:Horror Literature]] [[Category:The Landlady]] [[Category:Short Story]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Landlady, The}}