Roald Dahl is an extremely gifted writer of children's fiction, though he has often applied his talents to writing fiction for the older reader. If I were to be asked to recommend a short story for inclusion in an anthology of short stories for teenage readership, I would choose one of his stories - `The Landlady'.

Everyone knows that teenagers love horror and that is exactly what `The Landlady' is. Roald Dhal definitely got hold of the right ideas in this story that I think any teenager would enjoy. I think the way he held the atmosphere from the beginning was ingenious. This phrase is at the end of the first paragraph:

"The air was deadly cold and the wind was like flat blades of ice on his cheeks."

Roald Dahl's word choice is excellent and chillingly describes the opening scene.

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