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Table of Contents:

• A Pail of Air - (1951) - shortstory
• The Beat Cluster - (1961) - shortstory
• The Foxholes of Mars - (1952) - shortstory
• Pipe Dream - (1959) - shortstory
• Time Fighter - (1957) - shortstory
• The 64-Square Madhouse - (1962) - novelette
• Bread Overhead - (1958) - shortstory
• The Last Letter - (1958) - shortstory
• Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-TAH-Tee - (1958) - shortstory
• Coming Attraction - (1950) - shortstory
• Nice Girl with Five Husbands - (1951) - shortstory

Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared Universe 7 (1977), edited by Terry Carr. It can also be found in the anthology The Best Science Fiction of the Year #7 (1977), edited by Terry Carr and the collection The Leiber Chronicles: Fifty Years of Fritz Leiber (1990).

Meet Scully Christoper Crockett La Cruz. Scully is an actor, an extrovert, and a lady's man. He is also an opportunist and a liberal on the side. Most conspicuously he is a Thin, a muscleless free-fall phenomenon whose home is the Sack circling the Moon, and who can only support life in Earth-gravity conditions by encasing himself in a titanium exoskeleton. To the inhabitants of the ravaged post World War III Earth, he looks outlandis, even sinister. To their women he looks attractive.

Earth looks equally odd to Scully. The uneasy truce brought about by the exhaustion of radioactive material has left the United States only partly inhabitable and wholly dominated by Texas. In fact there is no U.S.A., only Greater Texas. And a Greater Texas demands greater Texans. Hormone treatment has turned Texans into giants and their Mex slaves into unhappy dwarves resentful of their fate and ripe for revolution.

To the Mexes, Scully is a Sign, a talisman, a leader. To Scully, the Mexes are a Cause, their superstitious awe of him bringing his actor's vanity to the aid of his humanitarian impulses and forcing him to take the role they thrust upon him. Besides, there are women in the case.

Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in If, December 1967. The story can also be found in the anthology Best SF: 1967, edtied by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss and the collection Horrible Imaginings (2004).

WFA winning short story. It originally appeared in the collection The Second Book of Fritz Leiber (1975). The story can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series V (1977), edited by Gerald W. Page, The World Fantasy Awards Volume Two (1980), edited by Stuart David Schiff and Fritz Leiber, and The Dark Descent: The Evolution of Horror (1987). It is included in the collections Heroes and Horrors (1978), Ship of Shadows (1979), The Leiber Chronicles: Fifty Years of Fritz Leiber (1990), Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories (2010), and Masters of the Weird Tale: Fritz Leiber (2016).

Hugo and Nebula Award winning short story. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975. The story can be found in the anthologies The 1976 Annual World's Best SF, edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, Nebula Award Stories 11 (1976), edited by Ursula K. Le Guin, The Hugo Winners, Volume 4: (1976-79) (1985), edited by Isaac Asimov, The Best of the Nebulas (1989), edited by Ben Bova, and The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories (2010), edited by Ian Whates and Ian Watson. It is also included in the collections The Worlds of Fritz Leiber (1976), Ship of Shadows (1979), The Leiber Chronicles: Fifty Years of Fritz Leiber (1990), and Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories (2010).

Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Worlds of Tomorrow, September 1965. The story can also be found in the anthology On Our Way to the Future (1970), edited by Terry Carr and the collection The Worlds of Fritz Leiber (1976).

WFA nominated novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology Superhorror (1976), edited by Ramsey Campbell. It can also be found in the anthology The Far Reaches of Fear (1980) edited by Ramsey Campbell. The story is included in the collections Heroes and Horrors (1978), Smoke Ghost & Other Apparitions (2002) and Masters of the Weird Tale: Fritz Leiber (2016).

Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1965. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 15th Series (1966), edtied by Edward L. Ferman, Worlds Near and Far (1974), edited by Terry Carr, and A Treasury of Modern Fantasy (1981) edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Terry Carr. It is included in the collections You're All Alone (1972), The Ghost Light (1984), The Leiber Chronicles: Fifty Years of Fritz Leiber (1990) and Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories (2010).

Fritz Leiber's work bridges the gap between the pulp era of H. P. Lovecraft and the paperback era of P. K. Dick, and arguably is as influential as both these authors. From a historical context, Leiber, in fact, knew both of the authors, and his work can be seen as a bridge connecting the many different flavors of genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Edited by award-winning editors Jonathan Strahan and Charles Brown, this new collection of the grand master's fiction covers all facets of his work, and features an Introduction by Neil Gaiman and an Afterword by Michael Chabon.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2010) - essay by Neil Gaiman
• Smoke Ghost - (1941) - short story
• The Girl with the Hungry Eyes - (1949) - short story
• Coming Attraction - (1950) - short story
• A Pail of Air - (1951) - short story
• A Deskful of Girls - (1958) - novelette
• Space-Time for Springers - (1958) - short story
• Ill Met in Lankhmar - (1970) - novella
• Four Ghosts in Hamlet - (1965) - novelette
• Gonna Roll the Bones - (1967) - novelette
• The Inner Circles - (1967) - short story
• America the Beautiful - (1970) - short story
• Bazaar of the Bizarre - (1963) - novelette
• Midnight by the Morphy Watch - (1974) - short story
• Belsen Express - (1975) - short story
• Catch That Zeppelin! - (1975) - short story
• Horrible Imaginings - (1982) - novella
• The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars - (1983) - novella
• Afterword (Selected Stories by Fritz Leiber) - (2011) - essay by Michael Chabon

Hugo and Nebula Award winning novelette. It originally appeared in the antholgoy Dangerous Visions (1967), edited by Harlan Ellison. The story can also be found in the anthologies:

• Nebula Award Stories Three (1968), edited by Roger Zelazny
• The Hugo Winners, Volume 2: (1963-70) (1971), edited by Isaac Asimov
• More Stories From the Hugo Winners, Volume 2: (1968-70) (1973), edited by Isaac Asimov
• The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III (1981), edited by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Fantasy Hall of Fame (1983) edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
• The Best of the Nebulas (1989), edited by Ben Bova

It is included in the collections:

• The Best of Fritz Leiber (1974)
• Ship of Shadows (1979)
• The Ghost Light (1984)
• The Leiber Chronicles: Fifty Years of Fritz Leiber (1990)
• Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories (2010)

Table of Contents:

• Preface - (1978) - essay by Stuart David Schiff
• Fritz Leiber: An Appreciation - (1978) - essay by John Jakes
• Sea Magic - (1977) - shortstory
• The Mer She - (1978) - novelette
• A Bit of the Dark World - (1962) - novelette
• Belsen Express - (1975) - shortstory
• Midnight in the Mirror World - (1964) - shortstory
• Richmond, Late September, 1849 - (1969) - shortstory
• Midnight by the Morphy Watch - (1974) - shortstory
• The Terror from the Depths - (1976) - novelette
• Dark Wings - (1976) - novelette

Nebula and World Fantasy Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in the anthology Death (1982) edited by Stuart David Schiff. It can also be found in the anthologies Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Horror Novels (1987), edited by Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg, and The Century's Best Horror Fiction 1951-2000 (2012), edited by John Pelan. The story is included in the collections The Leiber Chronicles: Fifty Years of Fritz Leiber (1990), Horrible Imaginings (2004) and Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories (2010).

Assembled from magazine submissions, fanzines, and even "lost" manuscripts discovered amongst the author's personal papers. See why Fritz Leiber is a must-read for any fan of science fiction, fantasy, or horror. Suspense, surprise, wit, and weirdness--they are all here for old fans to welcome back and new readers to discover.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: Imagine, If You Will... - essay by John Pelan
• Horrible Imaginings - (1982) - novella
• The Automatic Pistol - (1940) - shortstory
• Crazy Annaoj - (1968) - shortstory
• The Hound - (1942) - shortstory
• Alice and the Allergy - (1946) - shortstory
• Skinny's Wonderful - shortstory
• Answering Service - (1967) - shortstory
• Scream Wolf - (1961) - shortstory
• Mysterious Doings in the Metropolitan Museum - (1974) - shortstory
• When Brahma Wakes - (1968) - shortstory
• The Glove - (1975) - shortstory
• The Girl with the Hungry Eyes - (1949) - shortstory
• While Set Fled - (1961) - shortstory
• Diary in the Snow - (1947) - novelette
• The Ghost Light - (1984) - novelette

Hugo Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Worlds of If, July-August 1974. The story can also be found in the anthology Pawn to Infinity (1982), edited by Fred and Joan Saberhagen. It is included in the collections Heroes and Horrors (1978), The Ghost Light (1984), The Leiber Chronicles: Fifty Years of Fritz Leiber (1990) and Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories (2010).

HIGH IN THE SAN FRANSCISCO HILLS, SOMETHING STIRS, AND AWAKENS....

Deep in the heart of the city, Franz Westen watches and waits, gripped by a nameless fear. Poised at the heart of the unknown, he feels the terror grow.

Now he walks the ciry, no longer safe in his own home. Neither locked doors nor crowded streets can protect Franz Westen frm the ancient evil that has chosen him. Soon now he must step into his lover's cold and eternal embrace. Soon now he must give in...

Hugo Award winning and Nebula Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1969. The story can also be found in the anthologies World's Best Science Fiction: 1970, edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr, The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: A Special 25th Anniversary Anthology (1974), edited by Edward L. Ferman, and The Hugo Winners, Volume 3: (1970-75) (1977), edited by Isaac Asimov. It is included in the collections Ship of Shadows (1979), The Leiber Chronicles: Fifty Years of Fritz Leiber (1990), Gummitch and Friends (1992) and Masters of Science Fiction: Fritz Leiber (2016). It is half of Tor Double #5: No Truce With Kings/Ship of Shadows (1989, with Poul Anderson).

A collection of stories.

FABULOUS VOYAGER...

Fritz Leiber, America's finest fantasist, is the winner of six Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. In this award winning new collection you can be transported to a shadowy alternate reality where Germany won the Second World War; watch a man play dice with the devil; sail in the farthest realms of dark imagining, or observe a war being fought back and forth across time on a shuttle of shifting and uncertain reality...

These are tales of humour and horror, invention and enchantment, conjuring us into the incomparable universe of Fritz Leiber, a fabulous voyager in the incandescent world of his own imagining.

Table of Contents:

• Ship of Shadows - (1969) - novella
• Catch That Zeppelin! - (1975) - shortstory
• Gonna Roll the Bones - (1967) - novelette
• Ill Met in Lankhmar - (1970) - novella
• Belsen Express - (1975) - shortstory
• The Big Time - (1958) - novel

A collection of supernatural horror stories by a multiple award-winning master of the fantastic.

From the author of Swords and Deviltry and many other classic novels, a recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, this is a treasure trove of horrific tales, many of which remained out of print for decades after appearing in such magazines as Unknown, Thrilling Mystery, Startling Stories, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and the acclaimed horror specialty magazine Whispers 13-14.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Ramsey Campbell
• Smoke Ghost - (1941) - short story
• The Power of the Puppets - (1942) - short story
• Cry Witch! - (1951) - short story
• The Hill and the Hole - (1942) - short story
• The Enormous Bedroom - novelette
• Black Glass - (1978) - novelette
• I'm Looking for Jeff - (1952) - short story
• The Eeriest Ruined Dawn World - (1976) - short story
• Richmond, Late September, 1849 - (1969) - short story
• The House of Mrs. Delgato - (1959) - short story
• The Black Ewe - (1950) - short story
• Replacement for Wilmer: A Ghost Story - (1990) - short story
• MS. Found in a Maelstrom - (1959) - short story
• The Winter Flies - (1967) - short story
• The Button Molder - (1979) - novelette
• Do You Know Dave Wenzel? - (1974) - short story
• A Visitor from Back East - (1961) - short story
• Dark Wings - (1976) - novelette
• Some Notes on the Texts - essay by John Pelan and Steven Savile

In regards to Fritz Leiber, I believe that publication of such unpublished and uncollected works only strengthens his literary greatness. Through fragments, drafts and practice writings, we can clearly see the evolution from Leiber, the amateur, to Leiber, the professional. We are exposed to the clear way in which he dedicated his life to the written word and trained his abilities to produce the award-winning masterpieces that we read even today. While some may object to such a volume, I ask them this--is not the dream just as important as the empire that had been built from it? Are not the blueprints and sketches as impressive as the buildings and the artwork? We must place all this into perspective, and see that publishing such works is not a smear upon Leiber's legacy. Rather, it completes a full circle. If we are asked to be thorough in the biography of an individual, then we must also do so for their bibliography.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction--The Cream of the Damned by Benjamin Szumskyj

Fragments, Drafts and Miscellanea

• Tale of the Grain Ship--A Fafhrd and Gray Mouser Fragment
• Insanity
• Opaque Corridor
• Preadator Universe
• Social Inventor
• The Adventurer
• The Communicants
• The Feeler
• The Wrong Track
• Trap
• Boom, Boom, Boom!
• Concerning Tribalism and Loving the World
• Final Commentary
• Insanity [2]
• Night Ramble
• Privacy
• Semicentennial
• The Unhuman
• To Jonquil
• Let's Pursue Happiness
• Notes for Study of Mac
• Practice Writing
• The Lust of the Alien
• Over Twenty Titled and Untitled Fragments

In the Beginning

• Introduction by Fritz Leiber
• Adventures of a Balloon
• Further Adventures of a Balloon
• Riches and Power
• Children of Jerusalem
• The Road to Jordan
• After the Darkness

Poetry

• Demons of the Upper Air
• Ghosts
• The Recognition of Death
• Challenge
• Night of Death
• The Gray Mouser: I
• The Gray Mouser: II
• The Midnight Wall
• 5447 Ridgewood Court
• The Other Side
• Past Druid Guards
• The Voice of Man
• Poor Little Ape
• Santa Monica Beach at Sunset
• 1959: the Beach at Santa Monica

Other Works

• The Mystery of the Japanese Clock
• Quicks around the Zodiac - A Farce

BFA winng and WFA nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Whispers #13-14, October 1979. The story can also be found in the anthologies Fantasy Annual III (1981) and Whispers III (1981), edited by Stuart David Schiff. It is included in the collections The Leiber Chronicles: Fifty Years of Fritz Leiber (1990), Smoke Ghost & Other Apparitions (2002) and Masters of the Weird Tale: Fritz Leiber (2016).

Written in the 1930s, lost in the 1950s, and finally published in 1990s, this is one of Fritz Leiber's more eclectic works. Part horror story and part science fiction whodunit, the tale begins as George Cramer arrives in Smithville, California, home of his college friends Daniel Kesserich and John Ellis. Ellis's wife has died under mysterious circumstances, and now both he and Kesserich have gone missing. The townspeople seem to be hiding a hideous secret, and Cramer suspects all the clues lead back to unusual experiments Kesserich was conducting. A gripping tale in the style of H. P. Lovecraft but told with the grace of Leiber.

His admirers include Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, John Jakes and Peter Straub. The New York Times called his work "fast moving, ironic and delightful." He is the winner of every major American accolade in the field of fantastic literature: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the World Fantasy Convention's Grandmaster Award. This incredible volume includes some of his greatest tales, a startling novella about ghosts in modern California, and a brilliant look at his own distinguished career. Here is Fritz Leiber at his best..

Table of Contents:

• Author's Introduction - essay by Fritz Leiber
• The Ghost Light - novelette
• Coming Attraction - (1950) - shortstory
• A Deskful of Girls - (1958) - novelette
• Space-Time for Springers - (1958) - shortstory
• Four Ghosts in Hamlet - (1965) - novelette
• Gonna Roll the Bones - (1967) - novelette
• Bazaar of the Bizarre - (1963) - novelette
• Midnight by the Morphy Watch - (1974) - shortstory
• Black Glass - (1978) - novelette
• Not Much Disorder and Not So Early Sex: An Autobiographic Essay - essay by Fritz Leiber

Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, October 1965. The story can also be found in the anthology World's Best Science Fiction: 1966, edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr, and the collection The Best of Fritz Leiber (1974).

Table of Contents:

• Two Sought Adventure - (1939) - novelette
• The Automatic Pistol - (1940) - short story
• Smoke Ghost - (1941) - short story
• The Hound - (1942) - short story
• Sanity - (1944) - short story
• Wanted - An Enemy - (1945) - short story
• Alice and the Allergy - (1946) - short story
• The Girl with the Hungry Eyes - (1949) - short story
• The Man Who Never Grew Young - (1947) - short story
• Coming Attraction - (1950) - short story
• A Pail of Air - (1951) - short story
• Poor Superman - (1951) - novelette
• Yesterday House - (1952) - novelette
• The Moon Is Green - (1952) - short story
• A Bad Day for Sales - (1953) - short story
• The Night He Cried - (1953) - short story
• What's He Doing in There? - (1957) - short story
• Try and Change the Past - (1958) - short story
• Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-TAH-Tee - (1958) - short story
• The Haunted Future - (1959) - novelette
• Mariana - (1960) - short story
• The Beat Cluster - (1961) - short story
• The 64-Square Madhouse - (1962) - novelette
• The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity - (1962) - short story
• Bazaar of the Bizarre - (1963) - novelette
• 237 Talking Statues, Etc. - (1963) - short story
• When the Change-Winds Blow - (1964) - short story
• Four Ghosts in Hamlet - (1965) - novelette
• Gonna Roll the Bones - (1967) - novelette
• The Inner Circles - (1967) - short story
• Ship of Shadows - (1969) - novella
• Endfray of the Ofay - (1969) - short story
• America the Beautiful - (1970) - short story
• Ill Met in Lankhmar - (1970) - novella
• The Bait - (1973) - short story
• Midnight by the Morphy Watch - (1974) - short story
• Belsen Express - (1975) - short story
• Catch That Zeppelin! - (1975) - short story
• The Glove - (1975) - short story
• The Death of Princes - (1976) - short story
• A Rite of Spring - (1977) - novelette
• The Button Molder - (1979) - novelette
• Horrible Imaginings - (1982) - novella
• The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars - (1983) - novella

I was one hundred miles from Nowhere?and I mean that literally?when I spotted this girl out of the corner of my eye. I'd been keeping an extra lookout because I still expected the other undead bugger left over from the murder party at Nowhere to be stalking me.

Welcome to Deathland, a postapocalyptic nuclear desert where kill or be killed is the law of the land. The radiation-damaged survivors of this ravaged region are consumed by the urge to murder each other, making partnership of any sort a lethal risk. But when two drifters forge an uneasy truce, the possibility of a new life beckons.

Written by a multiple Hugo Award-winning author and one of the founders of the sword-and-sorcery genre, this novel-length magazine story first appeared at the height of Cold War paranoia. Fritz Leiber's thought-provoking tale addresses timeless questions about the influences of community and culture as well as the individual struggle to reform.

Meet some of the insufferably zany characters that inhabit the mad, gay, heady world of the 'arts'...

GASPARD DE LA NUIT - human journeyman writer. He has problems with an eager girlfriend, Heloise Ibsen (assigned to him by his publisher.) What he really loves is the robot that actually writes his novels, which he oils with devoted care. His closest friend is

ZANE GORT - a fine, upstanding, self-employed robot writer, Zane writes books for other robots and is madly in love with

MISS BLUSHES - a censor robot who is something of a prude and rather hysterical - very logical when you consider her circuits are wired for censorship, but it makes life difficult for Zane. He turns for help to

NURSE BISHOP - a small but formidably beautiful human who plays nursemaid to a mysterious group of near-human entities who are owned by

FLAXMAN AND CULLINGHAM - human publishers of low cunning and deplorable language.

And there are many, many more...

What if half the world's population (the female half) practiced witchcraft and kept it a secret from men?

Norman Saylor, a professor of ethnology, discovers his wife Tansy has put his research in the field of "Negro Conjure Magic" into practice for the sake of protecting him from other spell-casting faculty wives who wish to further their own husbands careers. A man of science, Norman has only an academic interest in the subject of magic and superstition and forces Tansy to cease all her workings and to burn all her charms. As soon as Norman burns the last charm, things start to fall apart. He has a run-in with a former student, his student-secretary accuses him of having seduced her, and he is passed over for a promotion that had seemed certain.

Norman begins to have more than his fair share of small accidents: cutting himself while shaving, stepping on carpet tacks, cutting his hand with a letter opener, and more. He begins to imagine that there is a dark presence exploiting his fear of trucks. Tansy takes his curse upon herself forcing him to overcome his disbelief and use witchcraft to save his wife's body—and her soul.

Originally published in 1953, Conjure Wife is considered a modern classic of horror-fantasy and has been adapted for film three times: "Burn, Witch Burn" (1962); "Weird Woman" (1944); and "Witch's Brew" (1980). Yet another film remake is in the works.

GATHER, DARKNESS! is a science-fiction classic. It tells the story of Armon Jarles, a man on the edge, living amidst the disputes of two rival powers at large in the world. 360 years after a nuclear holocaust ravaged mankind, throwing society back into the dark ages, the world is fraught with chaos and superstition. The new rulers over the masses of humanity are the techno-priests of the Great God, endowed with scientific knowledge lost to the rest of humanity. Jarles, originally of peasant descent, rises to become a priest of the Great God. He knows the gospel propagated by the priests to be a fraud, based on illusion and trickery. Even more offensive to him is the paucity of true believers among the priesthood. One day he rebels against his priestly training and attempts to incite the peasants to rise up and demand freedom, but they are not ready. Jarles is not the only dissenter trying to sabotage and expose the false theocracy of the priesthood - witchcraft is slowly gaining strength and support among the populace. Although Jarles is unaware, his rebellion against the power of the priests is about to throw him headlong into the middle of the greatest holy war the world has ever seen.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword - essay
• Smoke Ghost - (1941) - shortstory
• The Automatic Pistol - (1940) - shortstory
• The Inheritance - (1942) - shortstory
• The Hill and the Hole - (1942) - shortstory
• The Dreams of Albert Moreland - (1945) - novelette
• The Hound - (1942) - shortstory
• Diary in the Snow - novelette
• The Man Who Never Grew Young - shortstory
• The Sunken Land - (1942) - shortstory
• Adept's Gambit - novella

Ships to the Stars

Something had thrown Earth's scientists into an uproar - or rather, nothing had. Because suddenly there was absolutely nothing where something very definitely should have been. Phobos and Deimos, the two moons of Mars. had disappeared.

And that was just the start of it. Before long, more of the solar system's moons were gone... people on Earth were sinking out of sight into the ground... and Earth's telepaths kept having strange dreams, full of foreboding....

A collection of 6 short stories by Fritz Leiber:

• Dr. Kometevsky's Day - (1952) - shortstory
• The Big Trek - (1957) - shortstory
• The Enchanted Forest - (1950) - novelette
• Deadly Moon - (1960) - novelette
• The Snowbank Orbit - (1962) - shortstory
• The Ship Sails at Midnight - (1950) - shortstory

The Million Year Hunt

...He heard a shout, distant and ringing, "No, Carson! Not that door!"

Something green writhed in through that door. Something gaseous, billowing, filling the chamber faster and faster, something that caught at his throat and gagged him, made him wretch, brought streaming tears to his eyes.

Before his eyes stretched a nightmarish growth of vine and tree, of mushroom-headed stalks, of gyrating tentacles swaying from every branch and limb. He heard a shrill, triumphant chittering.

He turned to spring back. A vice closed over his foot and tripped him. He fell, sprawling, his mouth and nostrils filling with stinking mud.

He did not remember anything more for a very long time.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1974) - essay by Fritz Leiber
• Sanity - (1944)
• Wanted - An Enemy - (1945)
• The Man Who Never Grew Young - (1947)
• The Ship Sails at Midnight - (1950)
• The Enchanted Forest - (1950)
• Coming Attraction - (1950)
• Poor Superman - (1951)
• A Pail of Air - (1951)
• The Foxholes of Mars - (1952)
• The Big Holiday - (1953)
• The Night He Cried - (1953)
• The Big Trek - (1957)
• Space-Time for Springers - (1958)
• Try and Change the Past - (1958)
• A Deskful of Girls - (1958)
• Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-TAH-Tee - (1958)
• Little Old Miss Macbeth - (1958)
• Mariana - (1960)
• The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity - (1962)
• The Good New Days - (1965)
• Gonna Roll the Bones - (1967)
• America the Beautiful - (1970)

This Ace Double is almost a complete collection of Leiber's Change War stories, lacking only "A Deskful of Girls", "No Great Magic", "When the Change-Winds Blow", "Knight to Move", and "Black Corridor".

The Big Time [Change War]

Have you ever worried about your memory, because it doesn't seem to recall exactly the same past from one day to the next? Have you ever thought that the whole universe might be a crazy, mixed-up dream? If you have, then you've had hints of the Change War.

It's been going on for a billion years and it will last another billion or so. Up and down the timeline, the two sides -- "Spiders" and "Snakes" -- battle endlessly to change the future and the past. Our lives, our memories, are their battleground. And in the midst of the war is the Place, outside space and time, where Greta Forzane and the other Entertainers provide solace and R&R for tired time warriors.

This novel was also published as a single title.

The Mind Spider and Other Stories

Table of Contents:

• The Haunted Future - (1959) - novelette
• Damnation Morning [Change War] - (1959) - short story
• The Oldest Soldier [Change War] - (1960) - short story
• Try and Change the Past [Change War] - (1958) - short story
• The Number of the Beast [Change War] - (1958) - short story
• The Mind Spider [Change War] - (1959) - short story

Table of Contents:

• Foreword - (1974) - essay by Fritz Leiber
• 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) - essay
• Yesterday House - (1952)
• After Such Knowledge - (1974) - essay
• Knight to Move - (1965)
• Weird World of the Knight - (1960) - essay
• To Arkham and the Stars - (1966)
• "The Whisperer" Re-examined - (1964) - essay
• Beauty and the Beasts - (1974)
• Masters of Mace and Magic - (1974) - essay
• Cat's Cradle - (1974)

Hugo and Nebula award-winning Fritz Leiber is a science-fiction grand master with an unparalleled ability to discern the stranger side of the universe. THE GREEN MILLENNIUM is set in a futuristic human society based on our own. The regimented, regulated and bureaucratized life style led by the misanthropic Phil Gish leaves him feeling vaguely dissatisfied and emotionally cut off from other people. He is surprised when a pure green cat appears in his room, a cat who makes him feel happier and more alive than he has ever felt. Phil decides to call the cat Lucky, hoping his life will take a turn for the better. If you consider different as change for the better, then Gish really has got something in Lucky--something that everyone else wants--including the Mob, the FBI, some nude aliens, and a gorgeous mystery woman. When Lucky seems to vanish into thin air, Phil will do anything to get him back, even if it means challenging the very powers that rule his world.

Table of Contents:

• The Green Millennium - (1953) - novel
• The Black Gondolier - (1964) - novelette
• Midnight in the Mirror World - (1964) - shortstory
• I'm Looking for Jeff - (1952) - shortfiction
• The Casket-Demon - (1963) - shortstory

Table of Contents:

• Foreword - essay
• The Lion and the Lamb - (1950) - novelette
• The Mighty Tides - (1961) - essay
• Trapped in the Sea of Stars - short story
• Fafhrd and Me - (1963) - essay
• Belsen Express - short story
• Ingmar Bergman: Fantasy Novelist - (1974) - essay
• Scream Wolf - (1961) - short story
• Those Wild Alien Words: II - essay
• The Mechanical Bride - (1954) - short fiction
• Through Hyperspace with Brown Jenkin - (1963) - essay
• A Defense of Werewolves - (1948) - essay

Carl Mackay had an okay job, a beautiful woman, and a lot of big plains. But one day he met a beautiful, frightened girl who didn't quite belong in this world...

All eyes were watching the eclipse of the Moon when the Wanderer--a huge, garishly colored artificial world--emerged. Only a few scientists even suspected its presence, and then, suddenly and silently, it arrived, dwarfing and threatening the Moon and wreaking havoc on Earth's tides and weather. Though the Wanderer is stopping in the solar system only to refuel, its mere presence is catastrophic. A tense, thrilling, and towering achievement. Winner of the Hugo Award for Best SF Novel of the Year!

THE WORLDS OF FRITZ LEIBER is a brand new collection of some of the finest SF, Fantasy and Horror stories produced by the internationally acclaimed author of THE BIG TIME.

It is a collection handpicked by the author and contains two Change-War stories, a Fafhrd and Gray Mouser tale, Catch That Zeppelin (the winner of the 1976 Nebula Award) and eighteen other outstanding stories.

But no one could describe this book better than Fritz Leiber himself: "I believe this collection represents me more completely, provides a fuller measure of the range of my creative efforts, than any other. Welcome to my worlds!"

Contents:

• Hatchery of Dreams (1961)
• The Goggles of Dr. Dragonet (1961)
• Far Reach to Cygnus (1965)
• Night Passage (1975)
• Nice Girl with Five Husbands (1951)
• When the Change-Winds Blow (1964)
• 237 Talking Statues, Etc. (1963)
• The Improper Authorities (1959)
• Our Saucer Vacation (1959)
• Pipe Dream (1959)
• What's He Doing in There? (1957)
• Friends and Enemies (1957)
• The Last Letter (1958)
• Endfray of the Ofay (1969)
• Cyclops (1965)
• Mysterious Doings in the Metropolitan Museum (1974)
• The Bait (1973)
• The Lotus Eaters (1972)
• Waif (1974)
• Myths My Great-Granddaughter Taught Me (1963)
• Catch That Zeppelin! (1975)
• Last (1957)

Contents:

• 5 - The Moon Is Green - (1952) - shortstory
• 25 - What's He Doing in There? - (1957) - shortstory
• 33 - The Improper Authorities - (1959) - shortstory
• 48 - Bazaar of the Bizarre - [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] - (1963) - novelette
• 79 - The Goggles of Dr. Dragonet - [Dr. Dragonet] - (1961) - shortstory
• 104 - Deadly Moon - (1960) - novelette
• 138 - Bread Overhead - (1958) - shortstory
• 156 - Nice Girl with 5 Husbands - (1951) - shortstory (variant of Nice Girl with Five Husbands)
• 172 - Appointment in Tomorrow - (1951) - novelette
• 206 - The Big Engine - (1962) - shortstory
• 212 - The Creature from Cleveland Depths - (1962) - novelette
• 264 - The Mind Spider - [Change War] - (1959) - shortstory
• 283 - Kreativity for Kats - [Gummitch the Cat] - (1961) - shortstory
• 294 - Martians Keep Out - (2012) - shortfiction (variant of Martians, Keep Out! 1950)

Table of Contents:

• Destiny Times Three - interior artwork by Freff
• Riding the Torch - interior artwork by Freff
• 7 - Destiny Times Three - (1945) - novel by Fritz Leiber
• 150 - Afterword (Destiny Times Three) - essay by Norman Spinrad
• 157 - Riding the Torch - (1974) - novella by Norman Spinrad
• 248 - Afterword (Riding the Torch) - essay by Fritz Leiber

Hugo Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1958. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Eighth Series (1959), edited by Anthony Boucher, and Dark Stars (1969) edited by Robert Silverberg. It is included in the collections The Best of Fritz Leiber (1974), The Ghost Light (1984) and Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories (2010).

Contains all of the Change War short fiction with the exception of "The Mind Spider", "The Number of the Beast" and "Black Corridor".

It is happening right now: the war through Time. The battleground is the eternal present. The objective is to alter the past. And the goal is to seize control of the future. The warriors are ordinary people, like yourself...

Table of Contents:

• Try and Change the Past (1958) - short story
• The Oldest Soldier (1960) - short story
• Damnation Morning (1959) - short story
• When the Change-Winds Blow (1964) - short story
• Knight to Move (1965) - short story
• A Deskful of Girls (1958) - novelette
• No Great Magic (1963) - novella

A collection of Leiber's Change War stories. Originally appeared as half of Ace Double D-491 (1961). This edition has a slightly different table of contents.

Table of Contents

• Foreword (The Mind Spider and Other Stories) - (1961) - essay by Fritz Leiber
• The Haunted Future - (1959) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
• Damnation Morning - [Change War] - (1959) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• The Oldest Soldier - [Change War] - (1960) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• Midnight in the Mirror World - (1964) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• The Number of the Beast - [Change War] - (1958) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• The Mind Spider - [Change War] - (1959) - short story by Fritz Leiber

How can Thorn fight a dream foe -- risking life and sanity, that is exactly what he sets out to do . . . and his shrewd tactics and reckless daring create a pulse-hammering story against an all to real opponent!

This is the main novel in Leiber's Change War series.

Have you ever worried about your memory, because it doesn't seem to recall exactly the same past from one day to the next? Have you ever thought that the whole universe might be a crazy, mixed-up dream? If you have, then you've had hints of the Change War.

It's been going on for a billion years and it will last another billion or so. Up and down the timeline, the two sides--"Spiders" and "Snakes"--battle endlessly to change the future and the past. Our lives, our memories, are their battleground. And in the midst of the war is the Place, outside space and time, where Greta Forzane and the other Entertainers provide solace and r-&-r for tired time warriors.

From the moment when they first met, in the commission of the same, audacious theft, Fafhrd, the giant barbarian warrior from the Cold Waste, and the Gray Mouser, master thief, novice wizard and expert swordsman, felt no ordinary affinity. Forged over the gleam of sharpened steel as, back to back, they faced their foes, theirs was a friendship that would take them from adventure to misadventure across all of Nehwon, from the caves of the inner earth to the waves of the outer sea. But it was in the dark alleys and noisome back streets of the great fog-shrouded city of Lankhmar that they became legends.

THE FIRST BOOK OF LANKHMAR includes the first four volumes of the hugely enjoyable Swords series.

After their legendary adventures in the northern wastes and beyond, Fafhrd, the giant barbarian warrior, and the Gray Mouser, master thief, novice wizard and expert swordsman, are back home in Lankhmar again, and looking for an easy time. But Lankhmar is under attack from a strange horde of invaders, including a two-headed dragon and an army of miniature wanderers ...Once those threats are seen off, a quest to the farthest reaches of Nehwon is in prospect. And then, in the last book of their adventures, Fafhrd goes sailing through the clouds, and the Mouser takes to the seas, before we finally bid a fond, if sad, farewell to Lankhmar.

THE SECOND BOOK OF LANKHMAR includes the last three volumes of the hugely enjoyable series.

Hugo and Nebula Award winning novella.

Back to back, eyeing their foes over the gleam of sharpened steel, stand the two greatest heroes ever to walk the world of Newhon: Fafhrd, the giant barbarian warrior from the Cold Waste; and the Gray Mouser, novice wizard, master thief and unparalleled swordsman. This is their story.

The story originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1970. The story can also be found in the anthologies Nebula Award Stories Six (1971), edited by Clifford D. Simak, The Hugo Winners, Volume 3: (1970-75) (1977), edited by Isaac Asimov, Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Fantasy Novels (1984), edited by Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg and Isaac Asimov, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV (1986), edited by Terry Carr, and Swords Against Darkness (2017), edited by Paula Guran. It is half of Tor Double #19: Ill Met In Lankhmar/The Fair in Emain Macha (1990, with Charles de Lint) and is included in the collections Swords and Deviltry (1970), The Leiber Chronicles: Fifty Years of Fritz Leiber (1990), The First Book of Lankhmar (2001) and Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories (2010).

Hugo Award nominated story. The story originally appeared in Fantastic Stories of Imagination, May 1961. It can also be found in the anthology Modern Classics of Fantasy (1997), edited by Gardner Dozois. It was later expanded to the full novel The Swords of Lankhmar (1968).

Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Fantastic, September 1965. The story is included in the collections Swords Against Wizardry (1968), Lean Times in Lankhmar (1996) and The First Book of Lankhmar (2001).

Hugo Award nominated story. It originally appeared in Fantastic Stories of Imagination, October 1962. The story can also be found in the anthology The Sword & Sorcery Anthology (2012) edited bt Jacob Weisman and David G. Hartwell. It is included in the collections Swords and Deviltry (1970) and The First Book of Lankhmar (2001).

Note: This collection was subsumed by the 1970 expanded edition "Swords Against Death" and no longer belongs in the canonical sequence of the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser series.

Contents:

• 5 - Induction - [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] - short story
• 9 - The Jewels in the Forest - [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] - (1939) - novelette
• 49 - Thieves' House - [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] - (1943) - novelette
• 83 - The Bleak Shore - [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] - (1940) - short story
• 95 - The Howling Tower - [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] - (1941) - short story
• 111 - The Sunken Land - [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] - (1942) - short story
• 131 - The Seven Black Priests - [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] - (1953) - novelette
• 159 - Claws from the Night - [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] - (1951) - novelette

One of the most influential and critically acclaimed fantasy writers of all time, Fritz Leiber pioneered the sword-and-sorcery genre!

In the ancient city of Lankhmar, two men forge a friendship in battle. The red-haired barbarian Fafhrd left the snowy reaches of Nehwon looking for a new life while the Gray Mouser, apprentice magician, fled after finding his master dead. These bawdy brothers-in-arms cement a friendship that leads them through the wilds of Nehwon facing thieves, wizards, princesses and the depths of their desires and fears. Superb writing and brilliant, believable characterizations highlight the first entry in Leiber's seminal series.

Table of Contents:

• Induction - (1957)
• The Snow Women - (1970)
• The Unholy Grail - (1962)
• Ill Met in Lankhmar - (1970)

In the second installment of this rousing series, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser journey from the ancient city of Lankhmar, searching for a little adventure and debauchery to ease their broken hearts. When a stranger challenges them to find and fight Death on the Bleak Shore, they battle demonic birds, living mountains, and evil monks on the way to their heroic fate. Fritz Leiber's witty prose, lively plots and superb characterizations stand the test of time.

Table of Contents:

• Author's Foreword - essay by Fritz Leiber
• The Circle Curse - (1970)
• The Jewels in the Forest - (1970)
• Thieves' House - (1943)
• The Bleak Shore - (1940)
• The Howling Tower - (1941)
• The Sunken Land - (1942)
• The Seven Black Priests - (1953)
• Claws from the Night - (1951)
• The Price of Pain-Ease - (1970)
• Bazaar of the Bizarre - (1963)

Lean times in Lankhmar force brothers-in-arms Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser to part ways. Only after a joust of wits and swords do the friends join together again, stealing the ship the Black Treasurer and sailing round and through The Claws. Fighting sea kings, curses and seven-eyed wizards, the pair set out on their heroic wanderings through the wilds of Nehwon.

Table of Contents:

• Times in Lankhmar - (1959)
• Their Mistress, the Sea - (1968)
• When the Sea-King's Away - (1960)
• The Wrong Branch - (1968)
• Adept's Gambit - (1947)

Sent by a witch on a foolhardy journey, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser return to the icy reaches of the north in search of dubious treasure. There, they are seduced by the glittering attractions of an ice woman, who brings them with her to her shadowy lair. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser-brothers in arms-are overwhelmed by intimations of power and rise to become the overlords of Quarmall, a dangerous region of lies, magic, and swords.

Table of Contents:

• In the Witch's Tent - (1968)
• Stardock - (1965)
• The Two Best Thieves in Lankhmar - (1968)
• The Lords of Quarmall - (1964) - novella by Fritz Leiber and Harry Fischer

A plague of rats overrun Lankhmar, the capitol city and glittering gem of the land of Nehwon. Commissioned to guard a ship of grain from the cursed rodents, brother-in-arms Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser soon discover the plague has progressed to a fatal point. Mustering the strength of sorcery, they descend into the depths of Lankhmar and rise to battle in order to save the soul of the ill-fated city.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser have traveled the width and breadth of the land of Nehwon in search of adventure and fortune. Now lost at sea, their ship drawn out on the Great Equatorial Current, their journey brings them to Rime Isle, a tragic island populated by vagabonds and wanderers. The island is also home to a race of gods, schemers, and manipulators that plague the humans for their amusement. Will Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser be able to escape the island, or be trapped forever as pawns of the gods?

Table of Contents:

• The Sadness of the Executioner - (1973)
• Beauty and the Beasts - (1974)
• Trapped in the Shadowland - (1973)
• The Bait - (1973)
• Under the Thumbs of the Gods - (1975)
• Trapped in the Sea of Stars - (1975)
• The Frost Monstreme - (1976)
• Rime Isle - (1977)

Dark Horse's republication of Fritz Leiber's immortal tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser reach a turning point with this new edition of Leiber's final stories of the two intrepid adventurers. Their journeys have taken them from one side of Nehwon to the other, facing life-risking peril at every turn.

Now, in a set of stories that show us Fafhrd and the Mouser both on their own and together, they will face some of their most challenging obstacles, and - against assassins, angry gods, and even Death himself - the duo must battle for their very lives.

With a mixture of high adventure, moving drama, and broad comedy, The Knight and Knave of Swords is a perfect endpiece to Leiber's stories of the stalwart comrades, and sets the stage for all-new adventures in the next volume, by renowned fantasy author Robin Wayne Bailey.

Table of Contents:

• Sea Magic - (1977)
• The Mer She - (1978)
• The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars - (1983)
• The Mouser Goes Below - (1988)

Contents:

• You're All Alone - (1953) - novel
• Four Ghosts in Hamlet - (1965) - novelette
• The Creature from Cleveland Depths - (1962) - novelette

You're all Alone has also been published as The Sinful Ones. This collection has different content than other versions.

Poet, actor, playwright, chess expert, master of fantastic fiction. Fritz Leiber was a true Renaissance Man. His writing crossed all boundaries, from horror to sword and sorcery. This book goes deep into Leiber's underrated science fiction oeuvre. It's a comprehensive, page- turning cache that captures Leiber's thoroughly original style- - altogether mystical, beautiful, and sometimes disturbing.

"The Foxholes of Mars" is a literary assault: a frightening, nitro- fueled tale of war on Mars, with one soldier questioning the futility and purpose of the battle against bug- eyed aliens- - a distant mirror- image of our own times. "Space- Time for Springers" is told through the glaring eyes of Gummitch, a cat who happens to possess a genius IQ and a voracious appetite for scientific knowledge. "Night Passage" takes us on a dark journey into a Las Vegas where Earthlings and extra- terrestrials mingle and gamble- - and where one man takes a moonlit ride with a mystery woman from Mercury, tailed by some very scary pursuers. "The Mutant's Brother" is a malevolent mix of horror and SF, a tale of identical twins who each carry a frightful chromosome. One of them is also a monstrous serial killer. The literally chilling "A Pail of Air" takes place in an underground nest, where a family fights to survive in a sunless, moonless, post- apocalyptic world where even helium and carbon dioxide become crawling, shapeless threats.

Fritz Leiber was a storyteller and prophet for the ages. His work will never be dated or irrelevant. Treat this book like a crystal ball. These pages chronicle the world to come. You've been warned.

Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is regarded as one of the fathers of sword and sorcery fantasy. He excelled in all fields of speculative fiction, writing award- winning work in fantasy, horror, and science fiction.

Table of Contents:

• Yesterday House - 1952
• The Snowbank Orbit - 1962
• Wanted - An Enemy - 1945
• The Ship Sails at Midnight - 1950
• The Foxholes of Mars - 1952
• Far Reach to Cygnus - 1965
• Femmequin 973 - 1957
• Mysterious Doings in the Metropolitan Museum - 1974
• The Big Trek - 1957
• Space - 1958
• Moon Duel - 1965
• Poor Superman - 1951
• Night Passage - 1975
• The Mutant's Brother - 1943
• Coming Attraction - 1950
• The Black Ewe - 1950
• Bullet with His Name - 1958
• Mariana - 1960
• Sanity - 1944
• Time in the Round - 1957
• Ship of Shadows - 1969
• The Good New Days - 1965
• Catch That Zeppelin! - 1975
• Deadly Moon - 1960
• The Man Who Was Married to Space and Time - 1979
• Black Glass - 1978
• Friends and Enemies - 1957
• A Rite of Spring- 1977
• America the Beautiful - 1970
• A Pail of Air - 1951
• The Winter Flies - 1967
• Time Fighter - 1957
• The Far Reach of Fritz Leiber - essay by John Pelan

Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1958. The story can also be found in the anthology A Science Fiction Argosy (1972), edited by Damon Knight. It is included in the collections A Pail of Air (1964), The Secret Songs (1968), The Best of Fritz Leiber (1974) and The Leiber Chronicles: Fifty Years of Fritz Leiber (1990).

The burning wreck of a passenger jet with a missing cargo of gold and a desperate plea from a friend lead Tarzan of the Apes deep into intrigue in the jungles of Brazil. Soon the ape-man finds himself facing his most deadly nemesis yet: a criminal mastermind named Vinaro, whose enemies perish in mysterious explosions of gold and flame. But that may be only the beginning of Tarzan's challenges. For if he is to defeat Vinaro, Tarzan must confront him in the legendary golden city of Tucumai, from where no outsider has ever returned.

No Truce With Kings:

Anderson's tale follows Colonel Mackenzie of the Army of the Pacific States of America as civil war breaks out in the wake of the President usurping power. Decades after a nuclear war, the inheritors of the United States of America - rather like the European kingdoms after Rome's fall - are feudal, vie for power, and hope to recapture the technological and, perhaps, political glories of the past.

But, with the Espers, a religion that promises the development of man's latent psychic powers, something new in human history may have been brought into the mix.

Ship of Shadows:

The setting is a spaceship; Spar is just a man who wants some teeth and better eyes. Old Doc says he may be able to use some old technology to give those to him. But then Spar gets involved with Crown, the local gangster. Oh, and people keep disappearing - maybe due to vampires.

Ill Met In Lankhmar:

They are the two greatest heroes ever to walk the World of Nehwon: Fafhrd, the giant barbarian warrior from the Cold Waste; and the Gray Mouser, novice wizard, master thief, and swordsman unparalleled.

The Fair in Emain Macha:

Conjure Wife:

Witchcraft. Norman Saylor considered it nothing but superstition, until he learned that his own wife was a practicing sorceress. Even still, he refuses to accept the truth that every woman knows... that in the secret occult warfare that governs our lives, witchcraft is a matter of life and death.

Our Lady of Darkness:

Middle-aged San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen is rediscovering ordinary life following a long alcoholic binge. The one day, peering at his apartment window from a top a nearby hill, he sees a pale, brown thing lean out his window... and wave.

This encounter sends Westen on a quest through ancient books and modern streets, for the dark forces and paramental entities that thrive amidst the towering skyscrapers... and, meanwhile, the entities are also looking for him.

Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay by Stuart David Schiff
• Introduction: Terror, Mystery, Wonder - essay by Fritz Leiber
• The Whimper of Whipped Dogs - (1973) - short story by Harlan Ellison
• Jerusalem's Lot - (1978) - novelette by Stephen King
• The October Game - (1948) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• Smoke Ghost - (1941) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• Belsen Express - (1975) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• Special Award--Professional, Donald M. Grant - (1980) - essay by uncredited
• Special Award--Professional, Alternate World Recording, Inc. - essay by uncredited
• The King's Shadow Has No Limits - (1975) - short story by Avram Davidson
• The Ghastly Priest Doth Reign - (1975) - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• A Visitor from Egypt - (1930) - short story by Frank Belknap Long
• It Only Comes Out at Night - (1976) - short story by Dennis Etchison
• The Barrow Troll - (1975) - short story by David Drake
• Special Award--Non-Professional, Carcosa - (1980) - essay by Stuart David Schiff
• Special Award--Non-Professional: Stuart David Schiff--Whispers - essay by uncredited
• Two Suns Setting - (1976) - novelette by Karl Edward Wagner
• The Companion - (1976) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• Best Artist--Frank Frazetta - essay by uncredited
• Best Artist--Roger Dean - essay by uncredited
• There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding - (1976) - novelette by Russell Kirk
• Appendix: World Fantasy Awards 1973-1976 - essay by uncredited