this cover illustrates the story “It’s a Small World” By the great Robert Bloch. While this cover accurately portrays the denouement of the story, the tale itself features a shrunken naked woman as well. Two toy store clerks who are in love encounter a mysterious stranger and an unusual boy during the height of Christmas shopping. Roger goes to the back room to wrap a present. When he returns, Gwen is missing! He soon finds her empty clothes and launches a rescue mission. Will he succeed? The story is PG rated at best but it played much more erotically in my imagination. The short novella can be had on amazon for 99 cents. Worth a read at Christmas time
The story first appeared in Amazing Stories Magazine, in March 1944
Cover by J. Allen St. John
