Henry Farrell 1 hr 4 min read

Advertising man Marc Pillsworth, who shuns the seamy side of life, dreads the opening of his office door, for behind it looms Miss Quirtt, the nastiest experiment nature ever made with womanhood.

Henry Farrell's 1947 story is a zany fantasy and social-SF comedy, a Marc Pillsworth tale. Fun, madcap golden-age SF. Read it for another screwball romp in the Toffee vein, where a beleaguered ad-man's orderly life is upended by comic chaos and the fantastic, in a light, fast-moving golden-age farce brimming with good-humored absurdity.

In its time

Published in 1947, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

1 hr 4 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Brady