If he loses the bet, he will lose a finger. In "Man from the South," an old man bets a young man that if he can light a lighter ten times without faltering, he will win a Cadillac. After Drioli agrees to accompany this man, the reader learns that there is no Hotel Bristol in Cannes, and that a painting similar to Drioli's tattoo is up for sale in Buenos Aires. Several attendants try to expel him until he shows his tattoo, and a man offers to display his tattoo in a hotel-the Bristol in Cannes. After seeing Chaim's work in a prominent art gallery, Drioli reminisces about his friend, and decides to wander into the gallery. "Skin" is a story of Drioli, a man who gets a tattoo from Chaim Soutine. Though his nurse tells him he is in Brighton, he begins to suspect that he is actually in France, and learns that he has been captured. In "Beware of the Dog," Peter Williamson, a young pilot, is forced to crash-land after he loses a leg. After Judson, the old man's assistant, breaks the back of the old man's dog, the old man exacts revenge on Judson, setting him up to be bitten by a black Mamba as he steals milk from a cow. In "An African Story," a young fighter pilot writes down a story told to him by an old man. His later stories recount femmes fatales, difficult marriages, and murderous plots, and often end ambiguously. Dahl's early stories center around Royal Air Force pilots and focus on several dark aspects of World War II, depicting young men entering the battlefield and experiencing loss of limbs, friends, and sanity. Dahl's short stories often center specific themes, including revenge, Royal Air Force pilots, ingenuity, and black humor. Van Morrison's song Someone like you is named after this collection.Throughout his life, Roald Dahl gained acclaim as an adult short story writer. Francis McComas praised the collection's "subtly devastating murder stories two biting science-fantasties, plus a few unclassifiable gems" and concluded the volume "belong on your shelves somewhere in the Beerbohm/ Collier/ Saki section". Groff Conklin called Someone Like You "certainly the most distinguished book of short stories of 1953. The final four are grouped under a collective title.
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