![]() ![]() Harry tells Timber that a krait (a deadly, venomous snake found in India) crawled into his bed and is lying on his stomach. He sees the current crisis from the perspective of a former soldier who has experience dealing with men in extreme situations. It suggests that the events in this story take place after the war and that Woods fought in that war. This paragraph recalls Dahl's earlier short stories that took place in World War Two and which were collected in Over to You (1946). "The way he was speaking reminded me of George Barling after he got shot in the stomach when he stood leaning against a crate containing a spare airplane engine, holding both hands on his stomach and saying things about the German pilot in just the same hoarse straining half whisper Harry was using now." ![]() First published in the Jissue of Collier's, "Poison" begins as Timber Woods arrives at Harry Pope's bungalow, only to find Pope lying motionless in bed. The third episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents to be adapted from a story by Roald Dahl was "Poison," which Dahl wrote in January 1950. ![]()
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