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Nowhere else in America could you find such talent-except possibly in The Twilight Zone-and it might never have happened without editor Ray Russell.īut Ray Russell was more than an editor: he was a writer of horror fiction as well. Russell began working for Hugh Hefner as an editor in the 50’s, and filled Playboy's pages with some of the best popular writers of the time: Henry Slesar, Frederic Brown, Kurt Vonnegut ("Welcome to the Monkey House" was first published in Playboy), Frederik Pohl, Theodore Sturgeon, Richard Matheson, Jack Finney, Robert Bloch and Charles Beaumont. Pulp fiction nerds like me knew they must be lying, because we knew what Playboy was really good for, namely, all those wonderful short stories: the fantasy, the science fiction, and the horror. Remember all those liars in the ‘60’s who claimed they bought Playboy for the interviews?
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