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Our Lady of Darkness

Our Lady of Darkness

Our Lady of Darkness is an urban fantasy novel by American author Fritz Leiber. The novel is distinguished for three elements: the heavily autobiographical elements in the story, the use of Jungian psychology that informs the narrative, and its detailed description of "Megapolisomancy", a fictional occult science. It was originally published in shorter form as "The Pale Brown Thing" .


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“You’ve got to believe there’s some sort of sense in everything that crazies say.”
“Crazies?”

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“All of us.”
Source: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 30 (p. 181)

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“I am up to date only sporadically. I live firmly in the world of art, where reality and fantasy are one.”

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Source: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 16 (p. 89)

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Fritz Leiber photo

“Science has only increased the area of the unknown. And if there is a God, her name is Mystery.”

Fritz Leiber book Our Lady of Darkness

Source: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 8 (p. 43)

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Fritz Leiber photo

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