The Pale Brown Thing

By Fritz Leiber

"The ancient Egyptians only buried people in their pyramids. We are living in ours." - Thibaut de Castries

Serialised in 1977, The Pale Brown Thing is a shorter version of Fritz Leiber's World Fantasy Award-winning novel of the supernatural, Our Lady of Darkness. Leiber maintained that the two texts "should be regarded as the same story told at different times"; thus this volume reprints The Pale Brown Thing for the first time in nearly forty years, with an introduction by the author's friend, Californian poet Donald Sidney-Fryer. The novella stands as Leiber's vision of 1970s San Francisco: a city imbued with an eccentric vibe and nefarious entities, in which pulp writer Franz Westen uncovers an alternate portrait of the city's fin de siecle literary set-Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Clark Ashton Smith-as well as the darker invocations of occultist Thibaut de Castries and a pale brown inhabitant of Corona Heights.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178380761X
• ISBN13: 9781783807611
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Swan River Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"