“The idea of brutality actually shocks him, thought Goniface amusedly. I wonder what name he has for the toil we exact of the commoners, and the penances we impose on them?”

— Fritz Leiber , book Gather, Darkness!

Source: Gather, Darkness! (1950), Chapter 13 (p. 126)

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American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction 1910–1992

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