![]() It was followed the next year with the hardcover release of The Playboy Book of Horror and the Supernatural. 1968 saw all three books reprinted in paperback editions. 1966 saw the release of The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy and The Playboy Book of Crime and Suspense in hardcover. The Playboy Press anthologies arrived slowly. Once Playboy Press was created to compete in the book publishing industry, it became obvious how to use that store of quality genre fiction. In a relatively short number of years the magazine had assembled a wealth of high quality genre material with first book publication rights held on nearly all of it. The result was the accumulation in a single market of some of the most outstanding horror, crime, and science fiction of the time. Playboy was a high paying market which allowed its writers to produce works free of the restraining components of genre magazines and of a more violent and sexually exploratory nature than was acceptable to the mainstream "slick" magazines. ![]()
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