Head and tail bands, ribbon marker, clear Mylar dustjacket. 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. The edition is limited to 300 copies for sale.Limited to 150 copies, each signed by Michael Shea. Our Lady of Darkness introduces San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen. Each numbered copy signed by Michael Shea. These illustrations were previously only available in an obscure and hard-to-find German paperback. Also appearing for the first time in hardcover, and the first time in an English language edition, is the full suite of magnificent artwork by British artist John Stewart. Title: Our Lady of Darkness Author: Fritz Leiber Genre: Horror Fantasy Publisher: Currently Open Road Media Sci-Fi and Fantasy Release Date: 1978 Synopsis: A horror author is drawn into a mysterious curse in this World Fantasy Awardwinning novel from the author of the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series. This edition has a fine introduction by Michael Shea. This edition includes a dozen black & white illustrations by British artist John Stewart.
In the concept of paramentals, Leiber makes his definitive statement on alienation within the urban environment and the capacity of concrete, steel, and glass to suck up miseries and spew forth monsters. Leiber, Fritz Leiber Jun., Фриц Лейбер, F.OUR LADY OF DARKNESS by Fritz Leiber(Signed limited edition of only 150 hardcover copies )Published by Centipede PressBook is in fine unread conditionLeiber has often written of the Dark Lady, and the culmination of this work is this superb novel, originally published in 1977. Used These Alternate Names: Maurice Breçon, Fric Lajber, Fritz Leiber, Jr., Fritz R. Leiber's capacity for endless self-reinvention and productive self-examination kept him, until his death, one of the most modern of his sf generation.
Leiber's late short fiction, and the fine horror novel Our Lady of Darkness, combine autobiographical issues like his struggle with depression and alcoholism with meditations on the emotional content of the fantastic genres. Leiber's science fiction includes the planet-smashing The Wanderer in which a large cast mostly survive flood, fire, and the sexual attentions of feline aliens, and the satirical A Spectre is Haunting Texas in which a gangling, exo-skeleton-clad actor from the Moon leads a revolution and finds his true love. He found his mature voice early in the first of the sword-and-sorcery adventures featuring the large sensitive barbarian Fafhrd and the small street-smart-ish Gray Mouser he returned to this series at various points in his career, using it sometimes for farce and sometimes for gloomy mood pieces-The Swords of Lankhmar is perhaps the best single volume of their adventures. was one of the more interesting of the young writers who came into HP Lovecraft's orbit, and some of his best early short fiction is horror rather than sf or fantasy.
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