Lovecraft, Jack London, Ambrose Bierce, Clark Ashton Smith, George Sterling and Adolphe De Castro. In particular, in “Our Lady of Darkness” there are many references to the relationship between the fictional writer Thibaut de Castries and writers who really existed such as H.P.
This art is theorized in a book written by an author also invented, Thibaut de Castries, whose fictional story is reconstructed in “Our Lady of Darkness”.įritz Leiber blends fictional elements invented by him with real ones. Fritz Leiber moved to San Francisco after his wife Jonquil’s death and for about three years battled with alcoholism so it’s clear that in the novel there are some autobiographical elements.įritz Leiber invented an occult art called megapolisomancy that allows the prediction and manipulation of the future through the existence of a metropolis. In this case, San Francisco is the focus of the story and in “Our Lady of Darkness” some of its buildings are a central part of the plot. The author had written stories of various genres mixing their elements and in this one he starts from a quite classic horror then he puts it in the setting of a modern metropolis. “Our Lady of Darkness” is the last novel written by Fritz Leiber, who in the last years of his life only wrote short fiction. Initially, he takes it as a little peculiar literary work but when he sees a strange figure from his window he starts realizing that there are entities such as paramentals and they really haunt modern metropolis. After his wife’s death he spent a period in which he was an alcoholic and is still trying to get out of that crisis.īy chance – but is it really a coincidence? – Franz starts reading a strange book about occult themes titled “Megapolisomancy: A New Science of Cities” written by the mysterious Thibaut De Castries. This longer version won the World Fantasy Award as best fantasy novel of the year.įranz Westen is a writer of horror stories for television who lives in San Francisco. Originally it was a shorter story titled “The Pale Brown Thing”, serialized in “The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction” in 1974, which was later expanded into this novel. The novel “Our Lady of Darkness” by Fritz Leiber was published for the first time in 1977.
Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber (Italian edition)
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