"A Toy for Juliette" | |||
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Short story by Robert Bloch | |||
Language | English | ||
Genre(s) | Science fiction, horror fiction | ||
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Published in | Dangerous Visions | ||
Publication type | anthology | ||
Publisher | Doubleday | ||
Media type | Print (Hardcover) | ||
Publication date | 1967 | ||
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"A Toy for Juliette" is a 1967 science fiction and horror short story by American writer Robert Bloch, appearing for the first time in Harlan Ellison's anthology Dangerous Visions.
In a post-apocalyptic world, a time traveler randomly abducts people from throughout history for his granddaughter Juliette (named for the Marquis de Sade's novel Juliette)[1] to torture and kill in her sexual games. The last "toy" he gives her, however, turns out to be Jack the Ripper.
SFF World has called it "unsettling".[2]
Ellison wrote a sequel for the same anthology called "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World".