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Fritz Leiber
is one of the world's foremost authors of science fiction fantasies. Among
his many acclaimed works is Our Lady of Darkness. The supernatural horror
novel was written at 811 Geary Street, where Leiber and his alter ego,
lead character Franz Weston, lived. In the novel, San Francisco literary
icons
Dashiell Hammett, George
Sterling, and Jack London appear as characters
in flashback sequences. Leiber's most famous novel is 1943's Conjure Wife,
which portrays all women as witches who control the world's men. Leiber,
who died in 1992 at the age of 82, is a multiple Hugo Award winner. |
