| A Toy for Juliette | |
| Author: | Robert Bloch |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Science fiction, horror fiction |
| Published In: | Dangerous Visions |
| Publication Type: | anthology |
| Publisher: | Doubleday |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pub Date: | 1967 |
| Followed By: | 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.
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.
SFF World has called it "unsettling".[2]
Ellison wrote a sequel for the same anthology called "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World".