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Our Lady of Darkness. by Fritz Leiber. Share your thoughts Complete your review. Tell readers what you thought by rating and reviewing this book. Rate it * You Rated it * 0. 1 Star - I hated it 2 Stars - I didn't like it 3 Stars - It was OK 4 Stars - I liked it 5 Stars - I loved it. Our Lady of Darkness () is an urban fantasy novel by American author Fritz www.doorway.ru 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. Leiber's Our Lady of Darkness is one of the best horror novels to come out of the s. Curiously enough, many aspects of this work of fiction are fact-based, even autobiographical. During the mids, Leiber lived at Geary, apartment
One of his best novels is the classic dark fantasy Our Lady of Darkness, winner of the World. Conjure Wife, by Fritz Leiber () ****. This was originally published in the April issue of Unknown Worlds. In , it won a retro Hugo Award for best SF novel of A sociology professor at a small college finds that his wife has been practicing magic to advance his career. 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.
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