Definitely glad I picked it up, but I have a bit of trouble giving it more than three stars--this is a must-read for any completist, but I found about half the stories to be fairly rocky.
I had already read most of these stories in other anthologies.Liked:“Hot Eyes, Cold Eyes,” Lawrence Block (one of my favorite short stories)“Nunc Dimittis,” Tanith Lee (all of her short stories are excellent)“The Girl with Hungry Eyes,” Fritz Leiber“Tallulah,” Charles de Lint“The Snake Woman’s Lover...
Wow. I am glad I finally read this one. I've had it in my pile for a while, and in my classic horror/fantasy reading quest, Fritz Leiber definitely is a must read. So, let's get down to business:Review of Conjure WifeI read this out of the Dark Ladies: Conjure Wife/Our Lady of Darkness duology, but...
In this story, Leiber demonstrates an incredible knowledge base about dark and supernatural fiction, going back into the 19th and early 20th century. He writes this story in the style of Lovecraft, or should I say Machen, since he wrote The Great God Pan long before Lovecraft, in which the unknown ...
I read this out of the Dark Ladies: Conjure Wife/Our Lady of Darkness duology, but I wanted to jot down my thoughts separately for this one before I finish the volume.I found the writing clever. I was transplanted into the cutthroat world of college politics. Who knew that the wives could be just ...
This was a collection of stories published in 1967 that were groundbreaking because it contain stories no-one wanted or dared to published. The term was called New-wave of Science Fiction and it included sex in their stories. Some of the stories are quite good others I didn't felt anything (maybe be...
Whatever sword and sorcery book you happen to be reading at the moment - throw it across the room, sneer at the author's petty attempts at greatness, and go pick up one of Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar books. It doesn't necessarily have to be the edition I'm reviewing here. But if you have one ounce of lo...
Ohgod it has "The Events at Poroth Farm" I must possess this must must must----carry on. ========8/9/2012 - copy finally came in at Perfect Books. Am amused to notice how many of the contents I have already read, but perfectly happy with this regardless.
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