"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''.

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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'')The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction
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to torture and kill in her sexual games. The last "toy" he gives her, however, turns out to be

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Reception

''SFF World'' has called it "unsettling".Dangerous Visions by Harlan Ellison
reviewed at SFFWorld; published February 27, 2012; retrieved October 13, 2017

Sequel

Ellison wrote a sequel for the same anthology called " The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World".

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* 1967 short stories Horror short stories Literature about time travel Science fiction short stories Cultural depictions of Jack the Ripper Dangerous Visions short stories Short stories by Robert Bloch {{1960s-horror-story-stub

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