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“Trial of the Warlock.” Playboy, December, 121–124, 126, 132, 232, 235–236, 240, 243–244, 246, 249–252, 254, 256. Screenplay adaptation of J.K. Huysmans’s 1891 novel, Lá-Bas. Playboy gave “Warlock” its annual award for best major work in fiction; it tied with an excerpt from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slapstick. Rpt: Playboy Stories: The Best of Forty Years of Short Fiction, edited by Alice K. Turner. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1993.