![]() Leiber throws in references to Anton LaVey, Aleister Crowley, Clark Ashton Smith, and yes, even Howard Phillips Lovecraft himself. Not content with a half-decent Lovecraft pastiche (although one without the permeating sense of horror that only Lovecraft himself can evoke) Fritz Leiber livens it up by including references to other people in the Lovecraftian subculture. An evil lurking just below the shadow of known reality (the ghosts-or paramentals-of the city of San Francisco).A book of evil so hideous its existence cannot even be known ( Megapolisomancy).A long-dead sorceror of the black arts (Thibaut de Castries) whose curse may be the undoing of our narrator.A scholarly, introspective narrator (Franz Westen).(Sort of an evil version of feng shui.) Leiber includes all of Lovecraft's mainstays. The central horror of the novel is the city of San Francisco, whose presence calls evil spirits into existence by the confluence of steel and concrete present in the design and construction of the city. ![]() ![]() In Our Lady of Darkness Fritz Leiber updates the setting from turn-of-the-century New England to present-day (1970s) San Francisco. It is a requirement for science fiction authors to write at least one Lovecraft pastiche. ![]()
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