Masters of the Weird Tale: Fritz Leiber

  • Written by Fritz Leiber
  • ISBN: 9781613470596
  • Format: Hardcover, 904pp
  • Publish Date: July 1, 2016
  • Dimensions: 7.5" x 11"
  • Original Price: US$295
  • Genre: Horror Weird Fiction
  • Publication Type: Collection
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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.

An astounding two-volume collection of Fritz Leiber's best weird and horror fiction, across 900 pages, with over 20 full page illustrations, many in full color, with a stunning wraparound dustjacket by Tom Kidd Also included is a new introduction by editor John Pelan, with photographs of the author and images of old editions of his books he two volumes are enclosed in a handsome slipcase ribbon marker, cloth slipcase, and other extras.

The complete contents are shown below he edition is limited to 250 signed and numbered copies, and the book is signed by Tom Kidd, Rodger Gerberding, John Pelan, Travis Lewis, and Allen Koszowski, and has a special facsimile signature by Fritz Leiber.


Edition Details
  • Limited to 250 copies, each signed by John Pelan, Tom Kidd, Allen Koszowski, Travis Lewis, and Rodger Gerberding.
  • New introduction by John Pelan.
  • Two handsome volumes in a single slipcase.
  • Extensive bibliography.
  • Many photographs of Fritz Leiber, both in black & white and color.
  • Slipcase, ribbon marker, head and tail bands, full color wraparound dustjacket art by Tom Kidd.

Contents:
  • Introduction (Masters of the Weird Tale: Fritz Leiber)
  • The Dreams of Albert Moreland
  • Smoke Ghost
  • Mr. Adams' Garden of Evil
  • The Black Gondolier
  • The Power of the Puppets
  • Skinny's Wonderful
  • Alice and the Allergy
  • Midnight by the Morphy Watch
  • Spider Mansion
  • The Terror from the Depths
  • Replacement for Wilmer: A Ghost Story
  • You're All Alone
  • The Hill and the Hole
  • Cry Witch!
  • The Casket-Demon
  • Lie Still, Snow White
  • The Man Who Never Grew Young
  • The Enormous Bedroom
  • The Dead Man
  • The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity
  • Black Has Its Charms
  • The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich
  • In the X-Ray
  • Little Old Miss Macbeth
  • The Button Molder
  • Dark Wings
  • The Girl with the Hungry Eyes
  • Horrible Imaginings
  • The Hound
  • The Glove
  • Diary in the Snow
  • The Ghost Light
  • The Automatic Pistol
  • I'm Looking for Jeff
  • Belsen Express
  • A Bit of the Dark World
  • Richmond, Late September, 1849
  • Four Ghosts in Hamlet
  • Schizo Jimmie
  • The Phantom Slayer
  • Midnight in the Mirror World
  • Gonna Roll the Bones

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