Nov 19
Frank Comments: Now here’s one that if I were on the bus and saw someone reading it, I might try to avoid attracting his or her attention. Just not my sort of creepy I guess.
Published 1968
Frank Comments: Now here’s one that if I were on the bus and saw someone reading it, I might try to avoid attracting his or her attention. Just not my sort of creepy I guess.
Published 1968
November 19th, 2012 at 11:07 am
Come to think of it, yes I DO remember reading the “highly flammable” label on the can of hair lacquer. Is there ANY way I can gets my lips back?
November 19th, 2012 at 11:11 am
Not really the sort of image I would associate with “The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy.” I would expect something more … playful, I guess. Not the vicious glare of a hellspawned paper Playboy cartoon set on fire.
November 19th, 2012 at 11:31 am
Burn, Mickey Mouse! Burn!
November 19th, 2012 at 12:01 pm
It is one hell of a list of authors though.
By the size of it maybe they all wrote a page.
November 19th, 2012 at 12:23 pm
I’m not surprised. Their “horror and the supernatural’ story collection has a cover image of what I had assumed were either mummified corpses, really ugly-ass zombies, or late-stage anorexia, and comes across as equally mystifying in its (assumed) relevance to the content.
November 19th, 2012 at 2:26 pm
Great use of fire and wood.
November 19th, 2012 at 2:32 pm
I AM THE GODDESS OF HELLFIRE AND I BRING YOU… something that should have been on the latest Pan Book of Horror.
November 19th, 2012 at 4:02 pm
Not exactly erotic art.
November 19th, 2012 at 4:02 pm
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi… actually, help me anyone. HELP!
November 19th, 2012 at 4:37 pm
Are we sure that’s her hair that’s on fire, and not a bra on her head?
November 19th, 2012 at 7:13 pm
So are these the stories that people who only read the magazine for the stories read the magazine for?
November 19th, 2012 at 7:22 pm
Am I the first person to notice that the site name is now being added to the pictures in small letters in the corner that copyright violators can just crop off with a minute’s effort?
November 19th, 2012 at 11:04 pm
@David Cowie. Yeah… pretty pointless eh? Got sick and tired of people stealing our images without credit. Not that they are mine or anything. Anyone got any better suggestions? Curiously.
November 20th, 2012 at 4:19 am
People can burn/catch fire. Science fact, not fiction. So what we have here must be fantasy. Whose fantasy, I’d really rather not know.
November 20th, 2012 at 12:08 pm
“But Hef, you said you wanted a hot woman on the cover”
I’ll get my coat.
November 20th, 2012 at 2:58 pm
OK, so Natalie Portman was a bit wooden in the prequels… but this is taking your geek outrage too far!
November 20th, 2012 at 2:59 pm
“Doctor, doctor, can’t you see I’m burning burning…”
November 20th, 2012 at 5:33 pm
Is this how the Playboy artist imagined fantasy/sci-fi to be?
November 20th, 2012 at 6:16 pm
@ GSS admin: do I have any better suggestions? Not really. Anything that doesn’t obstruct our view of the covers is likely to be easy to remove, and anything that is hard to get rid of is likely to get in the way of the covers, which are what we all come here for. Bummer, eh?
And while I have your attention, is there any chance of adding a “random cover” button to the site? That would definitely make the national time-wasting index rise.
November 21st, 2012 at 8:02 pm
I remember when this book came out. I was appalled then, I’m appalled now. (I’d love to see the numbers of this book–if it sold at all.)
November 23rd, 2012 at 6:31 pm
Cover Illustration: Jack Gregory, Sculpture; Seymour Mednick, Photography
…and, well, that’s two of the names in the tag list.
I’m amused that Our Good Host thinks this is worthy of watermarking! You can find better copies on the Intarwebs. But, here, Rule #1.
November 26th, 2012 at 11:03 pm
Ah! I have this book! It does have a rather surprising list of contributors.
November 16th, 2015 at 5:56 pm
Ever since they took the nudity out of Playboy it really has changed!
November 16th, 2015 at 9:59 pm
I vividly remember this from my parents’ bookcase when I was quite young (<7), together with a cover from some murder mystery depicting the well-manicured hand of a buried woman reaching out from the dirt…
SCARRED
FOR
LIFE