First published in 1974 by DAW as a Paperback The collection is made up of stories and essays alternately, ie: story, essay, story etc… Notable editions:Gregg Press released a limited edition HB of 300 copies as a set with The Second Book of Fritz Leiber. They contained an introduction by T. Collins
- Essays
- Monsters and Monster Lovers discusses
Lovecraft, Machen, Bloch and several others and their memorable monsters - Hottest and Coldest Molecules science
essay - Those Wild Alien Words: I discussion
of the oddities of language - Debunking the I Machine an anti-war
(not a specific war) piece - King Lear
- After Such Knowledge book review
of James Blish’s Black Easter - Weird World of the Knight chess
- The Whisperer Re-examined discusses
Lovecraft’s “The Whisperer in Darkness - Masters of Mace and Magic reviews of E. R. Eddison’s,The Worm Ouroboros, Mistress of Mistresses and A Fish Dinner in Memison. Also of Robert E. Howard’s (and various collaborators posthumously) King Kull, Conan, Conan the Warrior, Conan the Usurper and Conan the Conqueror
Contains the following short stories (listed in alphabetical order)
A Hitch in Space
Beauty and the Beasts
Cat's Cradle
Crazy Annaoj
Kindergarten
Knight to Move
The Spider
To Arkham and the Stars
When the Last Gods Die
Yesterday House
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Last Updated: Monday, August 19, 2019
First published in
1992 by
Donald M Grant as a
Hardback Gummitch and Friends collects together all the Gummitch Stories as well as a lot of other cat stories. It contains some lovely illustrations as well as some poetry by Margo Skinner (Leiber), Karen Anderson and Poul Anderson.
The Book is dedicated to Margo, his second wife, and she writes of their wedding day.
A limited edition, slip cased version was released, with tributes from people such as Stephen King and Harlan Ellison included as Fritz died at the time of publication. read more
Last Updated: Sunday, August 18, 2019
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