The Sin-Damned

Lawrence Block reports: "THE SIN-DAMNED was one of the early Andrew Shaw titles, published by Nightstand Books in sometime in 1960. The cover, like that of many of its contemporaries, is the work of Harold W. McCauley. "While I can recognize the text as my work, I can't claim to recall writing it. Every day the great hoard of things I don't remember grows incrementally larger, and writing this novel has long since been a part of it. I do know, though, that someone else supplied the title, probably some editor in publisher Bill Hamling's employ. It could have been Harlan Elison, or Algis Budrys-or perhaps it was the janitor. In any event, when the publisher reissued the bok in the early 1970s, it bore a different title: The Switchers. "And now you know as much about THE SIN-DAMNED as I do..."