Franz is a recovering alcoholic who spent three years mourning the death of his wife in drink-induced oblivion and has only recently started to put his life back on track.
95)Fritz Leiber's Our Lady of Darkness follows the life of a horror author, Franz Westen. Some things fit together harmoniously and beautifully and startlingly with thrilling discords - those are true - and some do not, and those are merely bad art. Not all the play need please us, and ends are never comforting. All life and all awareness are ultimately one, including intensest pain and death itself. I make no distinction whatever between reality and fantasy, or the objective and the subjective. ".to be a good story is to me the highest test of the truth of anything. He walks to Corona Heights and looks back at his building to discover the figure waving at him from his apartment window-and to find himself caught in a century‑spanning curse that may have destroyed Clark Ashton Smith and Jack London.
While studying his beloved city through binoculars from his apartment window, he is astonished to see a mysterious figure waving at him from a hilltop two miles away. Our Lady of Darkness introduces San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen. One of his best novels is the classic dark fantasy Our Lady of Darkness, winner of the 1978 World Fantasy Award.
His fiction won the Hugo, Nebula, Derleth, Gandalf, Lovecraft, and World Fantasy Awards, and he was honored with the Life Achievement Lovecraft Award and the Grand Master Nebula Award. A horror author is drawn into a mysterious curse in this World Fantasy Award–winning novel from the author of the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series.įritz Leiber may be best known as a fantasy writer, but he published widely and successfully in the horror and science fiction fields.
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