Playbill
August, 1955
The story behind "The Crooked Man" is almost as unusual as the story itself. We received a carbon of the original manuscript from Charles Beaumont last summer with a note attached. We'd just purchased "Black Country," so anything from Chuck rated special attention."The Crooked Man," he explained, had already been bought and paid for by another men's magazine a short time before Playboy began publishing. They had praised it, called it "one of the great stories,&...
