Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (/ ˈ l aɪ b ər / LEYE-bər; Decem – September 5, ) was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theater and films, playwright, and chess expert. With writers such as Robert E. Howard and Michael Moorcock, Leiber is one of the fathers of sword and sorcery and coined the term. Fritz Leiber Booklist Fritz Leiber Message Board. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Our Lady of Darkness; A writer, Franz Westen, falls prey to a curse put upon another - Clark Ashton Smith - by the long dead founder of Megapolisomancy, Thibaut de Castries. This is the consequence of three chance happenings: (1) Buying a second-hand book inside. Our Lady of Darkness is a Fritz Leiber novella. It was repurposed as a source for the Call of Cthulhu campaign "Our Ladies of Sorrow". Our Lady of Darkness introduces San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen. While studying his beloved city through binoculars from his apartment window, he is astonished to see a mysterious figure waving at him from a hilltop two miles away. He walks to Corona.
More vintage paperback editions of famous horror/fantasy novels by elder genre statesmen Fritz Leiber: Our Lady of Darkness, Conjure Wife, and Night's Black Agents.I first wrote about Leiber's work here last www.doorway.ru you see the Ace Fantasy edition of Our Lady from , with cover art by Norman Walker. Rather well-done, keeping very much to the nature of the story itself. Our Lady of Darkness (Mass Market Paperback) Published April 1st by Ace. Mass Market Paperback, pages. Author (s): Fritz Leiber. ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: English. Our Lady of Darkness - Fritz Leiber Berkley Publishing - A recovering alcoholic reads a weird book about evil architecture and a notebook belonging to Clark Ashton Smith and then begins to see weird stuff through his binoculars. That's the premise of Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber. The protagonist is also an author of weird fiction, and repeatedly references Lovecraft, M.R.
Then one day, peering at his apartment window from atop a nearby hill, he sees a pale brown thing lean out his window ¦and www.doorway.ru encounter sends Westen on a quest through ancient books and modern streets, for the dark forces and paramental entities that thrive amidst the towering skyscrapers of modern urban life ¦and meanwhile, the entities are also looking for him.A pioneering work of modern urban fantasy, Our Lady of Darkness is perhaps Fritz Leiber s greatest novel. Fritz Leiber’s Our Lady of Darkness is a supernatural mystery novel, plunging deep into an urban consciousness of San Francisco and the strange secrets that may be buried there. A queer occult tome and a delicately written journal that may or may not have belonged to author Clark Ashton Smith sets into motion a horrifying mystery concerning the very city itself. Our Lady of Darkness is an urban fantasy novel by American author Fritz Leiber. The novel is distinguished for three elements: the heavily autobiographical elements in the story, the use of Jungian psychology that informs the narrative, and its detailed description of "Megapolisomancy", a fictional occult science. It was originally published in shorter form as "The Pale Brown Thing".
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