{"product_id":"the-pale-brown-thing-paperback","title":"The Pale Brown Thing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The ancient Egyptians only buried people in their pyramids. We are living in ours.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - Thibaut de Castries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Serialised in 1977, \u003cem\u003eThe Pale Brown Thing\u003c\/em\u003e is a shorter version of Fritz Leiber's World Fantasy Award-winning novel of the supernatural, \u003cem\u003eOur Lady of Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e. Leiber maintained that the two texts \"should be regarded as the same story told at different times\"; thus this volume reprints \u003cem\u003eThe Pale Brown Thing\u003c\/em\u003e for the first time in nearly forty years, with an introduction by the author's friend, Californian poet Donald Sidney-Fryer. The novella stands as Leiber's vision of 1970s San Francisco: a city imbued with an eccentric vibe and nefarious entities, in which pulp writer Franz Westen uncovers an alternate portrait of the city's \u003cem\u003efin de siecle\u003c\/em\u003e literary set-Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Clark Ashton Smith-as well as the darker invocations of occultist Thibaut de Castries and a pale brown inhabitant of Corona Heights.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51374238630111,"sku":"9781783807611","price":27.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/MiP7uSMIWS9781783807611.webp?v=1789175597","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-pale-brown-thing-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}