"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)The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction, by Mark Bould and Sherryl Vint; published February 28, 2011, by Routledge 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".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".
See also Jack the Ripper in fiction
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