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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.

Leiber has often written of the Dark Lady, and the culmination of this work is this superb novel, originally published in 1977 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 his edition includes a dozen black & white illustrations by British artist John Stewart lso 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.

These illustrations were previously only available in an obscure and hard-to-find German paperback ach numbered copy signed by Michael Shea The edition is limited to 300 copies for sale ample page spreads appear below.

Edition Details

• Limited to 150 copies, each signed by Michael Shea.
• Four bonus essays by Fritz Leiber.
• Printed cloth front cover.
• Illustrated, duotone endpapers.
• Top-edge stain.
• Head and tail bands, ribbon marker, clear Mylar dustjacket.

External Links

• Our Lady of Darkness. Centipede Press page for Our Lady of Darkness
• Fritz Leiber (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Fritz Leiber