“No matter how hard and wearisome an age this might be, it was certainly a very exciting one with regard to manifestations of the supernatural.”

— Fritz Leiber , book Gather, Darkness!

Source: Gather, Darkness! (1950), Chapter 5 (p. 54)

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

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