A Toy for Juliette

Short story by Robert Bloch

"A Toy for Juliette"

Short story by Robert Bloch

Language

English

Genre(s)

Science fiction, horror fiction

Publication

Published in

Dangerous Visions

Publication type

anthology

Publisher

Doubleday

Media type

Print (Hardcover)

Publication date

1967

Chronology

—	The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World

"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)^[1] to torture and kill in her sexual games. The last "toy" he gives her, however, turns out to be Jack the Ripper.

Reception

SFF World has called it "unsettling".^[2]

Sequel

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

References

^ The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction, by Mark Bould and Sherryl Vint; published February 28, 2011, by Routledge
^ Dangerous Visions by Harlan Ellison, reviewed at SFFWorld; published February 27, 2012; retrieved October 13, 2017

External links

A Toy for Juliette title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Robert Bloch

Novels

Psycho
American Gothic
Psycho II
Night of the Ripper
Psycho House

Short story
collections

The Opener of the Way
Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares
The Early Fears
Flowers from the Moon and Other Lunacies

Short stories

Screenplays

The Couch
The Cabinet of Caligari
Strait-Jacket
The Night Walker
The Skull
The Psychopath
Torture Garden
The Deadly Bees
The House That Dripped Blood
Asylum

Teleplays

"What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
"Wolf in the Fold"
"Catspaw"
"The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
The Cat Creature
The Dead Don't Die
The Return of Captain Nemo

Adaptations

Psycho (1960)
Psycho (1998)
Bates Motel (2013–2017)

Anthologies edited

Robert Bloch's Psychos

Jack the Ripper in fiction

Seminal works

The Lodger
Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution

Letters

Film

Waxworks (1924)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
Pandora's Box (1929)
The Lodger (1932)
The Lodger (1944)
Room to Let (1950)
Man in the Attic (1953)
Jack the Ripper (1959)
Lulu (1962)
A Study in Terror (1965)
Hands of the Ripper (1971)
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)
The Ruling Class (1972)
What the Swedish Butler Saw (1975)
Jack the Ripper (1976)
Murder by Decree (1979)
Time After Time (1979)
Jack's Back (1988)
Edge of Sanity (1989)
Deadly Advice (1994)
Ripper (2001)
From Hell (2001)
Bad Karma (2002)
Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street (2002)
Ripper 2: Letter from Within (2004)
The Lodger (2009)
Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days (2012)
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)

Parody

Bizarre, Bizarre (1937)
The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town (1976)
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)

Music

"Jack the Ripper" (1963)
"The Ripper" (1976)
"Killer on the Loose" (1980)
The Somatic Defilement (2007)
Jack the Ripper vs. Hannibal Lecter (2014)

Stage

Earth Spirit (1895 play)
Pandora's Box (1904 play)
Lulu (1937 opera)
The Lodger (1960 opera)
The Ruling Class (1968 play)

Comics

Blood of the Innocent (1985)
Gotham by Gaslight (1989)
From Hell (1989–98)
Wonder Woman: Amazonia (1997)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century (2009)

Literature

Sherlock Holmes	The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (1978) The Whitechapel Horrors (1992) Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (2005) Dust and Shadow (2009) The Ripper Legacy (2016)
Short stories	"A Toy for Juliette" (1967) "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World" (1967)
Other	A Feast Unknown (1969) Time After Time (1979) Night of the Ripper (1984) Phantom Blood (1987) Naomi's Room (1991) Anno Dracula (1992) A Night in the Lonesome October (1993) Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend (1996) Matrix (1998) Lost (2001) Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed (2002) Blood and Fog (2003) The Witches of Chiswick (2003) Broken (2006) Darkside (2007) Lifeblood (2007) Dracula the Un-dead (2009) I, Ripper (2015) The Cutthroat (2017)

Television

Series	Jack the Ripper (1973) Jack the Ripper (1988) Sanctuary (2007–11) Whitechapel (2009–13) Ripper Street (2012–17) Time After Time (2017) Case File nº221: Kabukicho (2019–20) Sherlock in Russia (2020) Beforeigners (2019–present)
Episodes	"Wolf in the Fold" (1967) "Comes the Inquisitor" (1995) "Ripper" (1999) "Sanctuary for All" (2008) "The Great British Fake Off" (2020)
Other	Bridge Across Time (1985 TV film)