Our Lady of Darkness

By Fritz Leiber

Book Overview

Middle-aged San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen is rediscovering ordinary life following a long alcoholic binge. Then one day, peering at his apartment window from atop a nearby hill, he sees a pale brown thing lean out his window...and wave. This encounter sends Westen on a quest through ancient books and modern streets, for the dark forces and paramental entities that thrive amidst the towering skyscrapers of modern urban life...and meanwhile, the entities are also looking for him. A pioneering work of modern urban fantasy, Our Lady of Darkness is perhaps Fritz Leiber's greatest novel.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765324075
• ISBN13: 9780765324078
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Orb Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Atmospheric and gripping

This is a fine example of the modern horror novel. Having lived in San Francisco in the 1970s (as did Leiber), I responded very positively to the authentic setting and even took out a map to check the sites. The main characters (Westen, Cal and Donaldus) were believable and I cared about them. The connections with occult scholarship and earlier weird fiction added other dimensions. The writing seemed a bit careless at times, so perhaps this book was written in a hurry. But I recommend it to Stephen King or Dean Koontz fans who wish to sample other recent dark fantasy.