Conjure Wife

  • Written by Fritz Leiber
  • ISBN: 9781933618876
  • Format: Hardcover, Unknown page count
  • Publish Date: October 1, 2011
  • Dimensions: Unknown Dimensions
  • Original Price: US$85
  • Genre: Horror
  • Publication Type: Novel
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About
Fritz Leiber, Jr. (1910-1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also an expert chess player and a champion fencer. E married Jonquil Stephens on January 16, 1936, and their son Justin Leiber was born in 1938. Leiber’s death occurred a few weeks after a physical collapse while traveling from a science fiction convention in London, Ontario, with Skinner. He cause of his death was given as "organic brain disease." Leiber’s own literary criticism, including several ground-breaking essays on Lovecraft, was collected in the volume Fafhrd and Me (1990).

(1910-1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also an expert chess player and a champion fencer. He married Jonquil Stephens on January 16, 1936, and their son Justin Leiber was born in 1938. Leiber’s death occurred a few weeks after a physical collapse while traveling from a science fiction convention in London, Ontario, with Skinner.

He married Jonquil Stephens on January 16, 1936, and their son Justin Leiber was born in 1938. Leiber’s death occurred a few weeks after a physical collapse while traveling from a science fiction convention in London, Ontario, with Skinner. (1910-1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also an expert chess player and a champion fencer.

Published in 1953, Conjure Wife was Fritz Leiber's first major horror novel, and one of the first novels to deal with witchcraft and feminism, as a college professor learns that his wife is part of a secret network of wives using magic A frank and provocative novel in a handsome hardcover edition gorgeously his edition has artwork by Columbian artist Marcela Bolivar, a new introduction by Ramsey Campbell, color reproductions of old editions, comics, and film posters, and a lengthy autobiography.

Each numbered copy signed by Ramsey Campbell he edition is limited to 150 copies for sale Sample page spreads appear below.


Edition Details
  • Limited to 150 copies, each signed by Ramsey Campbell.
  • Bonus biography by Fritz Leiber.
  • Printed cloth front cover.
  • Duotone endpapers.
  • Head and tail bands, ribbon marker, clear Mylar dustjacket.

Contents:
  • Introduction: A Charm of Powerful Trouble
  • Conjure Wife
  • Not Much Disorder and Not So Early Sex: An Autobiographic Essay

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