Someone Like You is a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl. It was published in 1953 by Alfred Knopf. Contents It contains eighteen short stories. The final four are grouped under a collective title. "Taste" "Lamb to the Slaughter" "Man from the South" "The Soldier" "My Lady Love, My Dove" "Dip in the Pool" "Galloping Foxley" "Skin" "Poison" "The Wish" "Neck" "The Sound Machine" "Nunc Dimittis" "The Great Automatic Grammatizator" (republished as The Great Automatic Grammatizator anthology) "Claude's Dog" "The Ratcatcher" "Rummins" "Mr. Feasey" "Mr. Hoddy" Reception Groff Conklin called Someone Like You "certainly the most distinguished book of short stories of 1953 ... all superb". Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas praised the collection's "subtly devastating murder stories [as well as] two biting science-fantasties, plus a few unclassifiable gems" and concluded the volume "belong[ed] on your shelves somewhere in the Beerbohm/Collier/Saki section". Van Morrison's song Someone Like You is named after this collection. Awards Edgar Award, 1954 References Further reading 1953 short story collections Short story collections by Roald Dahl Edgar Award-winning works Alfred A. Knopf books