Playboy Book Of Horror & The Supernatural

[H_P_Saucecraft]

Playboy Book Of Horror & The Supernatural - Editors of Playboy (Souvenir Press 1968)

Couldn't find a thread on this through search function, so forgive me if this has already been covered.

Franz Altschuler

Preface - Editors Of Playboy

Softly Walks The Beetle - John Collier
Heavy Set - Ray Bradbury
Nasty - Fredric Brown
Sardonicus - Ray Russell
Sorceror's Moon - Charles Beaumont
First Anniversary - Richard Matheson
The Jam - Henry Slesar
Beelzebub - Robert Bloch
The Machine In Ward Eleven - Charles Willeford
The Academy - David Ely
The Manuscript Of Dr. Arness - Gahan Wilson
The Party - William F. Nolan
Burnt Toast - Mack Reynolds
Rendezvous - John Christopher
Side By Side - John Tomerlin
The Sea Was Wet As Wet Could Be - Gahan Wilson
Hey, Look At Me! - Jack Finney
For The Rich They Sing - Sometimes - Ken W. Purdy
I'm Yours - Charles Schafhauser
Double Exposure - John Reese
The Taste Of Fear - Hugh G. Foster
No Such Thing As A Vampire - Richard Martheson
Virginia - Calvin Tomkins
Black Country - Charles Beaumont
The Travelling Salesman - Robert Bloch
Weird Show - Herbert Gold
The Life Work Of Juan Diaz - Ray Bradbury
Comet Wine - Ray Russell

Index Of Authors

[andydecker]

The Editors of Playboy - The Playboy Book of Horror and the Supernatural (Playboy Press, 1967, hc, 391 pages)

Cover: Franz Altschulder
Cover found on the net. Thanks to the original scanner.

Paperback edition:

Cover: Richard Tyler
Cover found on the net. thanks to the original scanner.

Back when Hugh Hefner still guided the magazine, before Playboy America couldn't keep up with changing times after his death and self-destructed, it published a lot of fiction of every field. The stories collected here were all published first in the magazine, most were reprinted or collected later in other books, at least one became a movie. It is supposed that Ray Russell was the actual editor of this.

[enoch]

An excellent collection.  Herbert Gold's "Weird Show" is a standout for me, but there are many great stories in this anthology.