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Four Rooms is a great example of Roald Dahl's work..

Four Rooms is a 1995 American anthology comedy film directed by Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, and Quentin Tarantino, each directing a segment of it that in its entirety is loosely based on the adult short fiction writings of Roald Dahl, especially Man from the South which is the basis for the last one, Penthouse - "The Man from Hollywood" directed by Tarantino. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Rooms

Someone Like You https://www.amazon.com/Someone-Like-You-Roald-Dahl/dp/014003... is a great collection of these short stories and a used copy may be had cheap!

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