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Our Lady of Darkness [Paperback]

Fritz Leiber (Author)
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Release Date: Sep 28 2010
Middle-aged San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen is rediscovering ordinary life following a long alcoholic binge. Then one day, peering at his apartment window from atop a nearby hill, he sees a pale brown thing lean out his window…and wave.

This 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.

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Orb Books; First Edition edition (Sep 28 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0765324075
  • ISBN-13: 978-0765324078
  • Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm
  • Shipping Weight: 200 g
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #468,842 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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“A first-class supernatural horror story, written with all the relaxed ease of an old master.”--David Pringle, Hugo-winning editor of Interzone

“For anyone who loves great literature, Fritz Leiber walked on water.”--Harlan Ellison

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FRITZ LEIBER, who died in 1992, was one of the most important SF and fantasy writers of the century.
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38 of 45 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Lovecraft's Horror updated to the Mid-Twentieth Century Jun 29 2001
By Dave Deubler - Published on Amazon.com
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Leiber takes a stab at modernizing the H.P.Lovecraft school of horror in this peculiar novel of mid-twentieth century San Francisco. The story revolves around one Franz Westen, recovering alcoholic and horror writer, whose fascination with the steep, solitary hill called Corona Heights leads him into the creepy world of Thibault de Castries, an eccentric mystic. Anarchist, founder of a secret order, and theorizer of the dreaded paramental entities, de Castries' power has touched the lives of many of San Francisco's most illustrious citizens. Can Franz somehow keep from being drawn into its tantalizing maw?

Leiber does an excellent job of migrating Lovecraft's growing disquiet to mid-twentieth century urban angst, theorizing the existence of dark forces that draw their power from the mass aggregations of metal, electricity and lost humanity that compose our great cities. Still, it's difficult to keep an air of suspense for any great length of time, and much of this book is just a slow buildup without very much tension. Leiber has too much good material here for a short story, but as it stands, the novel could have been cut by 50 pages or more without much loss. For example, the protagonist's friends Gunnar and Saul, who appear in so many scenes, don't do anything and really have no function, while the romantic interest, the intellectual Calpurnia, is usually absent despite the critical role she plays.

If you're a big fan of Lovecraft, give this review an extra star - you'll really enjoy Leiber's new take on some classic themes. Add another if you're really into San Francisco's geography and/or literary history, because this book has lots of both. So if you find that you fit the fairly narrow target audience this book seems to have been written for, you'll probably love this novel. This reviewer didn't.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Literate and Intricate Nov 28 2010
By Thomas Parker - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
I'm not sure what those who slight this book were looking for - maybe Stephen King horror/populism or Clive Barker fashionable extremisim. It certainly isn't any of those. What it is is literate, atmospheric, intricate, subtle, slyly humorous, and character-driven. It's well worth a read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite fantasy/suspense books of all time. Dec 27 2010
By J. Furr - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
If you like veins-in-your-teeth horror, this isn't for you. But if you like extraordinarily well-written, deeply unsettling fiction that captures its setting and action so vividly that a later trip to the actual locale revealed no surprises, then this IS for you. After reading "Our Lady Of Darkness" I happened to have a chance to travel to the Corona Heights park in San Francisco and other locales depicted in the book and went "Wow. Leiber REALLY captured this place." Few authors could have equalled the visionary characteristics of Leiber's writing. I recommend this book to all my friends.

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