Our Lady of Darkness (Paperback)

from texvelis

Wow I really loved this book I think that it will go down as one of my all time horror favorites. It is a fast read and has a Cthulhu mythos feel to it because the man in the book finds a journal that he believes was written by Clark Ashton Smith, which has been cursed. This is the first book by ...

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This novel features the culmination of Lieber's ideas about the supernatural, which he had previously explored in his short fiction since the 1940's. Here we find 1970's San Francisco vividly invoked. Leiber's logical yet absolutely unsettling theories about paramental entities and the strange ge...

from electrascaife

Franz Westen is a horror/fantasy writer who becomes interested in a book written by (and subsequently the life of) Thibaut de Castries. The book deals with Thibaut's theories of the occult and big cities, specifically how paramental entities can thrive in metropolitan settings, and Westen find hi...

from williemeikle

OUR LADY OF DARKNESS isn't an exciting read. It's a slow burner, a mass of details, all seeming inconsequential at first, that build and grow into something that is ultimately rich and strange and terrifying.There's a lot going on here, in the range and depth of characters that remind me of some ...

from datrappert

Harlan Ellison named this one of his favorite books in a supplement to "The Week" magazine a few years back, which I recently rediscovered while cleaning up my shelves. So, I decided to read it and picked it up at a used book store. I tried to put myself in the right frame of mind to be absorbed ...