Here is a quick description and cover image of book Dark Ladies: Conjure Wife Our Lady of Darkness written by Fritz Leiber which was published in October 12th 1999. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with touch of rubbing at spine ends. Brief Summary of Book: Dark Ladies: Conjure Wife Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 66. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 94. Joint winner of the 1977 British Fantasy Award. Winner of the 1978 World Fantasy Award for best novel. "Expanded from the the short novel 'Pale Brown Thing' this work represents the culmination of Leiber's lifelong effort to find corollaries for Gothic horrors in the modern world." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-235. Leiber is rare in being an American writer who uses America settings but can still be very Jamesian." - Pardoe, The James Gang, p. one of the very best of the novel-length Jamesian stories. Our Lady of Darkness is set in contemporary San Francisco and tells of Franz Westen (in many ways a thinly disguised version of Fritz Leiber himself), a writer. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Leiber dated 25 October 1977 to the book's editor "whose suggestions / helped stimulate / and shape its final form.
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