
The Pale Brown Thing
Fritz Leiber(Author)
The Swan River Press
Published on 28. February 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-1-78380-761-1 (ISBN)
Description
"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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Dublin 6
Ireland
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
186 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78380-761-1 (9781783807611)
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Persons
Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) was an American writer known for his influential contributions to science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He is widely recognized for creating the sword-and-sorcery characters Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, as well as for his innovative work in speculative fiction. Leiber's writing is noted for its wit, originality, and ability to blend genres with ease.