Someone Like You (short story collection)

It contains eighteen short stories. The final four are grouped under a collective title.[1]

• "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"

Groff Conklin called Someone Like You "certainly the most distinguished book of short stories of 1953 ... all superb".[2] 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".[3]

Van Morrison's song Someone Like You is named after this collection.[4]

Two of the stories in this collection were adapted by Wes Anderson as short films for Netflix.

• Edgar Award, 1954[3]

• Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 125. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.