A Good Imagination

A cuckolded husband exacts his revenge on his wife and her lover by taking a page from of Poe.

"I have my faults, but lack of imagination isn't one of them."

Suspect (January 1956)
Terror in the Night (1958)
The King of Terrors (1977)
Complete Stories of Robert Bloch -- V 1: Final Reckonings (1990)

Adapted for the television program Thriller

This story draws upon Bloch's familiarity with the works of Edgar Allan Poe.