Originally published at: The Imp Bottle horror | Boing Boing
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Ooh! Ooh! I know! 
(Had one as a kid.)
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And even if one is aware of its not so “hidden ability”, is one then able to lay it on its side?
Hmmm?
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With some preparation, yes.
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I’m guessing you don’t mean Preparation H - to shrink the swollen part.
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Did anyone else realise, just now, that the imp in this particular bottle appeared to Tony Nelson as a sultry blonde (?!) genie (a legendary creature from the middle east… where there aren’t too many blondes) because the imp read Tony’s subconscious mind and appeared as his dream-girl so that it could be free.
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Ha! I just read this story a week ago. It’s great for Halloween! Link below. Can’t vouch for the Classics Illustrated version, but I put that link below too. I owned one of these bottles. Can’t remember the secret.
https://www.math.tamu.edu/~boas/courses/220-2003c/bottle.pdf
https://archive.org/details/ClassicsIllustrated116TheBottleImp/mode/2up
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Yep, neat story. Also a trick-taking game which seems to have enduring popularity.
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Free? Best I can do is slightly less expensive that I bought you for.
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Man, first Cthulhu and now the imp - dude, you are on a roll!
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Now this is the kind of reboing I can get behind: years later, Mark is driven mad by pocket magic tricks and a drawer full of sentient strawberry corers and banana slicers. Well-played.
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