"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.

Plot

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) to torture and kill in her sexual games. The last "toy" he gives her, however, turns out to be Jack the Ripper.

A Toy for Juliette

Reception

SFF World has called it "unsettling".

A Toy for Juliette

Sequel

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

A Toy for Juliette

See also

Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper in fiction

Juliette (novel) Marquis de Sade

References

External links

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