Dahl's short stories are known for their unexpected endings, and his children's books for their unsentimental, macabre, often darkly comic mood, featuring villainous adult enemies of the child characters.
Dalove kratke priče su poznate po njihovim neočekivanim završecima, a njegove knjige za decu po njihovom nesentimentalnom, jezivom, često tamno komičnom tonu, sa prikazima zlobnih odraslih neprijatelja dečijih likova.