A short story originally published in "Playboy" March 1958, Vol. 5 No. 3. Playboy Editorial Comment: Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Not only The Shadow: Richard Matheson knows, too, and has set it all down in this month's disturbing lead-off story, "The Distributor," illustrated by Robert Christiansen. Matheson (who authored "The Splendid Source" and "A Flourish of Strumpets" in previous Playboys) has just returned from England where he wrote a film script based on his own haunting novel, I Am Legend.