First published in
2004 by
Midnight House as a
Hardback
Horrible Imaginings is another fine selection of rare tales (limited to 500 numbered copies), edited by John Pelan (and a shout out to me in the front – yay!)
“This is the third of a series of volumes dedicated to preserving all of Fritz Leiber’s weird and macabre tales under the Midnight House imprint. Horrible Imaginings assembles stories from sources ranging from 1940s issues of Weird Tales to rare fanzines like Amra and Whispers. As a special treat, this book includes a “lost” story, “Skinny’s Wonderful”, apparently written for Esquire or Playboy which was recently discovered in the author’s papers. Most of the stories gathered here are making their first appearance in book form or have been virtually unobtainable for many years. Fritz Leiber was the winner of every major award for science fiction, fantasy, and horror during his career. While many of his novels remain in print, much of his great short fiction has been virtually unobtainable for decades.” read more
Last Updated: Sunday, August 18, 2019
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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
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