Lamb To The SlaughterLamb to the Slaughter "Lamb to the Slaughter" is a short story by Roald Dahl. It was initially rejected, along with four other stories, by The New Yorker, but was ultimately published in Harper's Magazine in September 1953. It was adapted for an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents that starred Barbara Bel Geddes and Harold J. Stone. Originally broadcast on April 13, 1958, this was one of only 17 AHP episodes directed by Hitchco… is a Roald Dahl short story published in Harper’s Magazine in 1953. It tells the story of a woman who coldly commits murder and then gets away with it by creatively destroying the evidence . Mary Maloney is a devoted housewife.