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Friends,

My of Fritz Leiber essays is available for purchase at http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-2972-0. McFarland are a publisher of reference and scholarly books (I am doing the Blatty book through them). The table of contents are as follows:

Preface
Introduction
Foreword by John Pelan

“The Word and the Wild: The Problem of Civilization in the Works of Fritz Leiber” by Robert Waugh

“Story-telling Wonder-Questing, Mortal Me”: Some Thoughts on the Transformations of “The Pale Brown Thing” into Our Lady of Darkness” by John Howard

“But Time and Chance Happeneth to Them All: The Genesis and Applications of Fritz Leiber’s Theory of Time” by Justin Leiber

“Death, Rebirth, and Existentialism in Fritz Leiber” by Gary William Crawford

“Thank God They’re On Our Side (I Think): The Cat as Alien in Fritz Leiber’s Fiction” by Davide Mana

“Feed Me, Baby, Feed Me”: Beyond the Pleasure Principle in Fritz Leiber’s “Girl With the Hungry Eyes” by John Langan

“Science and Superstition: Fritz Leiber’s Modernization of Gothic” by S.T. Joshi

“The Allure of the Eccentric in the Poetry and Fiction of Fritz Leiber” by Bruce Byfield

“Power Plays: Explorations of Social Power in Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Adventures” by S. C. Bryce

“A Specter is Haunting Chicago: The Lovecraft-Leiberian Connexion” by Henrik Harksen

“He Wrote in the Valley of the Shadow of Death: Deconstructing Gather, Darkness!” by Benjamin Szumskyj

Author, Subject and Title Index
About the Contributors
Acknowledgements

Cheers & God Bless
Benjamin Szumskyj
(editor of the forthcoming ‘American Exorcist: Critical Essays on William Peter Blatty’)