The Book of Fritz Leiber is a collection of short stories and articles by Fritz Leiber

Fritz Leiber

Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theatre and films, playwright, expert chess player and a champion fencer. Possibly his greatest chess accomplishment was winning clear first in the 1958 Santa Monica Open.. With...

. It was first published in paperback in January 1974

1974 in literature

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 by DAW Books

DAW Books

DAW Books is an American science fiction and fantasy publisher, founded by Donald A. Wollheim following his departure from Ace Books in 1971. The company therefore claims to be "the first publishing company ever devoted exclusively to science fiction and fantasy." The first DAW Book published was...

. It was later gathered together with The Second Book of Fritz Leiber

The Second Book of Fritz Leiber

The Second Book of Fritz Leiber is a collection of short stories and articles by Fritz Leiber. It was first published in paperback in January 1975 by DAW Books...

into the hardcover omnibus collection The Book of Fritz Leiber, Volume ! & !! (Gregg Press

Gregg Press

Gregg Press was founded about 1965 by Charles Gregg in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey to distribute in the United States the antiquarian reprints published in the UK by Gregg Press International....

, 1980)..

The book consists of ten fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

, science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 and horror

Horror fiction

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

 short stories alternating with nine related articles, together with a foreword by the author. Some pieces were original to the collection. Others were originally published in the magazines Rogue

Rogue (magazine)

This article is about a magazine, for other uses of the term see Rogue.Rogue was a Chicago-based men's magazine published by William Hamling from December 1955 until 1967. Founding editor Frank M...

for January 1963, Worlds of Tomorrow

Worlds of Tomorrow (magazine)

Worlds of Tomorrow was an American science fiction magazine published from 1963 to 1967, after it was merged into If. It briefly resumed publication in 1970 and 1971. The magazine was edited by Frederik Pohl in its first period of publication, and by Ejler Jakobsson in the second. It has published...

for August 1963, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is a digest-size American fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House and then by Fantasy House. Both were subsidiaries of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Publications, which took over as publisher in 1958. Spilogale, Inc...

for December 1951 and April 1963, Galaxy Science Fiction

Galaxy Science Fiction

Galaxy Science Fiction was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published from 1950 to 1980. It was founded by an Italian company, World Editions, which was looking to break in to the American market. World Editions hired as editor H. L...

for August 1952 and February 1968, and Broadside Magazine

Broadside Magazine

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for December 1965, and the collection The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces

The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces

The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces is a collection of stories, poems and essays by American author H. P. Lovecraft and others, edited by August Derleth. It was released in 1966 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,460 copies. The dustjacket is by Frank Utpatel.Some controversy was raised by the...

(1966).

Contents

• "Foreword"
• "The Spider" (1963)
• "Monsters and Monster Lovers" (1965)
• "A Hitch in Space" (1963)
• "Hottest and Coldest Molecules" (1952)
• "Kindergarten" (1963)
• "Those Wild Alien Words: I" (1974)
• "Crazy Annaoj" (1968)
• "Debunking the I Machine" (1949)
• "When the Last Gods Die" (1951)
• "King Lear" (1934)
• "Yesterday House" (1952)
• "After Such Knowledge"
• "Knight to Move" (1965)
• "Weird World of the Knight" (1960)
• "To Arkham and the Stars" (1966)
• "The Whisperer" Re-examined" (1964)
• "Beauty and the Beasts"
• "Masters of Mace and Magic"
• "Cat's Cradle"

External links

• Fantastic Fiction entry