Trial of the Warlock
Mailer's screenplay adaptation of J. K. Huysmans's 1891 novel La-Bas, published in Playboy, which gave it that year's award for best major work of fiction (tied with Vonnegut's Slapstick).
“Trial of the Warlock,” Mailer’s screenplay adaptation of J. K. Huysmans’s 1891 novel Là-Bas, published in Playboy (December 1976). Playboy gave “Warlock” its annual award for best major work of fiction; it tied with an excerpt from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slapstick. Reprinted in Playboy Stories: The Best of Forty Years of Short Fiction (Dutton, 1993).