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by Schadenfreude » Tue Nov 18, 2025 10:50 am
Technically the SW is in the cover illustration. She's hiding inside the skull.
Among other things, the SW gets tied to the tracks of an electric train set, and she gets hung on a Christmas tree, wearing nothing but the ribbon that she's hanging from.
I scanned all 35 pages of this story, plus the cover illustration, and posted it on Giantess City over 15 years ago, though maybe it was taken down because of the hatred for SW there. (I haven't logged in to Giantess City since May 2012 because it turned into a totalitarian dictatorship after it changed owners, plus some really poor choices for moderators and administrators. I had already gotten a "warning" for saying "Heil Hitler!" in response to a new rule that made posting of male giant content a punishable offense. (And my post got deleted.))
That's not the only Robert Bloch story that has SW content. (But look at what a long writing career he had. His short story "The Lilies" was published in a fanzine in 1934, and he had written stories that hadn't yet been published when he died in 1994.)
There's "Picture", which was originally published in the first Shadows anthology edited by Charles L. Grant, and was reprinted in his collection Midnight Pleasures. (Though I'm giving away the ending by revealing that it has SW content.)
There's implied SW in his story "All on a Golden Afternoon", which was originally published in the June 1956 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and was reprinted in the collections Blood Runs Cold, The Best of Robert Bloch, Volume One of the misleadingly-titled The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch, and Robert Bloch: Appreciations of the Master.
In his "Lefty Feep" story "Jerk the Giant Killer", the giant has a normal-sized wife. It was originally published in the October 1942 issue of Fantastic Adventures, and was reprinted in his collection Lost in Tme and Space With Lefty Feep.
And there's "Fairy Tale", which was published under the pseudonym "Tarleton Fiske" because he had two stories in that issue of Fantastic Adventures. It was originally published in the August 1943 issue of Fantastic Adventures, and was reprinted in the "small press" collection Skeleton in the Closet and Other Dark Secrets: The Readers Bloch, Volume Two. (I have that issue of Fantastic Adventures. It actually has a "Meet the Author" Page for "Tarleton Fiske". The photo is of Robert Bloch, but he's holding an issue of Fantastic Adventures (upside down!) in front of his face, so most of it is hidden. According to the blurb, "It's A Small World", by "Tarleton Fiske", was going to be published in that issue of Fantastic Adventures, but it was replaced by "Fairy Tale" because it was too long. Of course, it ended up being published under Bloch's real name (and in Amazing Stories instead of Fantastic Adventures), so I assume that was the end of that pseudonym. I scanned that page and posted it on Giantess City, in the same thread with "It's A Small World".)
