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Smoke Ghost & Other Apparitions Paperback – 31 Mar. 2011

by Fritz Leiber (Author)
Fresh from its original appearance in a limited edition from small press Midnight House, this collection follows the acclaimed title, THE BLACK GONDOLIER AND OTHER STORIES and is also edited by John Pelan and Steve Savile. SMOKE GHOST & OTHER APPARITIONS is a new collection of stories by Fritz Leiber. Assembled here is a selection of Mr. Leiber's best horrific tales, many of which are previously uncollected and have been virtually unobtainable for decades. During his more than fifty years of writing, Leiber was an acknowledged master of the weird tale and the stories in this collection include works originally published in the magazines from the 1940's onward, including such venues as 'Unknown,' 'Thrilling Mystery,' 'Startling Stories' and 'Fantasy' and also works published over the decades in such places as 'Rogue,' 'The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction,' 'Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine' and the acclaimed horror specialty magazine 'Whispers 13-14.' Besides "Smoke Ghost" (1941), the stories include "Cry Witch!" (1951), "I'm Looking for Jeff" (1952), "Ms. Found in a Maelstrom" (1959), "The Button Molder" (1979), "Dark Wings" (1976) and (Original to this volume) "The Enormous Bedroom" (2001). While much of Leiber's seminal science-fiction and fantasy remains in print, his work in the field of supernatural horror has been sadly neglected until now.
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  1. Print length
    348 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    e-reads.com
  4. Publication date
    31 Mar. 2011
  5. Dimensions
    14 x 1.97 x 21.6 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    161756107X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1617561078
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ e-reads.com
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 31 Mar. 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 348 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 161756107X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1617561078
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 408 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14 x 1.97 x 21.6 cm

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Fritz Leiber

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Fritz Leiber is considered one of science fiction's legends. Author of a prodigious number of stories and novels, many of which were made into films, he is best known as creator of the classic Lankhmar fantasy series. Fritz Leiber has won awards too numerous to count including the coveted Hugo and Nebula, and was honored as a lifetime Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. He died in 1992.

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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars The best horror writer of the second half of the twentieth century
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 November 2012
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    This is a wonderful book and I am not going to work through the many stories which appear herein. They date from the forties until the latest Leiber period of the late seventies. He started off as the best American writer of the M R James style of classic horror, and also took much from the Weird Tales writers, especially Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith. Whatever the influences, the quality of his writing made him much more than a pastichist. This volume includes some of these works and stories from the fifties and sixties. Some few edge onto his SF works, but none are like his SF classics.

    However, the best reason to buy this is to get the latest stories, from the seventies, which live in the same universe as his masterpiece Our Lady of Darkness; rounded tales of a quiet late middle-aged life where somewhere there is either the supernatural or the feel of the supernatural. The writing is beyond compare, stunning.

    If you thing that Leiber only wrote the Lankkmar Stories read this. I have loved Lankhmar for over fifty years but they have never been his best.
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  • TheFutilitarian
    5.0 out of 5 stars Superb.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 December 2013
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    Can't recommend this highly enough. I've only started reading Leiber's work recently, but he has very quickly become one of my favourite authors. His novels and short stories are a real pleasure to read, filled with some great ideas and interesting characters.
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  • Michael M
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great take on modern supernatural stories
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 September 2020
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    A great read
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  • Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Still good stories
    Reviewed in Australia on 20 June 2020
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    The value of suspense in each paragraph is excellent. Loved most of the stories, can see how newer writers use what's gone before.
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  • PappyJP
    5.0 out of 5 stars Sublime Horror
    Reviewed in the United States on 31 March 2023
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    Fritz Lieber is the master of the horror short story. Prepare to leave the candle burning.....
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  • Josh Mauthe
    4.0 out of 5 stars In which it turns out Leiber is just as skilled at supernatural/horror fiction as he is fantasy
    Reviewed in the United States on 1 November 2023
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    I've not read anything Fritz Leiber wrote beyond the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser books, so I wasn't quite sure what I would be getting in Smoke Ghost and Other Apparitions, a collection of Leiber's supernatural and horror(-tinged) short fiction. But from the first story - the titular "Smoke Ghost" - I knew I was in good hands. That story is a tale of the modern world's unease and malevolence, one that's infused with a dread specific to the leadup to World War II but feels equally at home today, to where the ghost feels like an inevitable product of the changes in the world around us. There's a wide variety of tales here, from a truly wild story about puppets with a wholly unexpected reveal to a shaggy dog story with a punchline that made me laugh out loud. Portraits of madness that find emerge from automatic writing babble, surreal tales of hell and temptation, glimpses of a post-apocalyptic world, sweet vignettes of Edgar Allan Poe and lost friends - there's a wide range here, and it's all done with Leiber's trademark mix of imagination, awe, unease, and humor. There are a few weak entries here, including a story of twins that's too focused on Jungian archetypes to ever come to life, but they're the minority; mostly, what you're getting is a varied sprawl of pulpy stories ranging from the deeply unsettling ("Smoke Ghost," "The Hill and the Hole") to the funny ("The House of Mrs. Delgato") to the surprisingly heartfelt (I'm thinking especially here of "The Button Molder," which feels more autobiographical than you might expect, but also "Replacement for Wilmer: A Ghost Story" which delivers the goods in a wholly unexpected way). Thoroughly enjoyable work from Leiber, who has become an author who almost always brings me joy.
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  • bibliogrammie
    3.0 out of 5 stars So-So
    Reviewed in the United States on 14 November 2017
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    This was okay but I wasn't overly impressed.
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  • Shawna
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very different but in a good way
    Reviewed in the United States on 3 July 2019
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    This book has great short stories.
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