William W. Stuart 30 min read

She was a wonderful wife, sweet, pretty, loving, but she would keep littering up the house with her old, used-up bodies. And now the front pages have him down as a Bluebeard.

William W. Stuart's 1962 story is a wry, macabre first-contact and social-SF comedy. Funny, clever golden-age SF. Read it for a droll tale, told from the shadow of the electric chair, of a man whose alien wife's peculiar habit of shedding bodies has landed him in the direst misunderstanding.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

30 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Bob Ritter