won "Best Short Story Mystery" at the 1960 Edgar Awards. This was the second time Dahl was honoured, the first having been for his collection of short stories, Someone Like You (Best Short Story, 1954). Screen adaptation In 1979 Siobhán McKenna appeared in the title role of The Landlady in an episode of the British TV series Tales of The Unexpected where she played a seemingly charming, maternal but eccentric landlady who murders her male tenants and adds them to her collection of stuffed creatures. References 1959 short stories Short stories by Roald Dahl Works originally published in The New Yorker Horror short stories Somerset in fiction