Journal Articles and Reviews

Adair, Gerald.  "A Specter is Haunting Fritz Leiber:  The Influence of M. R. James on 'The Pale Brown Thing."  Extrapolation 40.3 (1999):  224-32.

"Leiber effectively establishes 'The Pale Brown Thing' as a synthesis of the modern and classic ghost story and creates the ideal artistic structural support fir the Jungian self-exploration  the haunted Franz/Fritz must undergo in order to attain the individuation he seeks in Our Lady of Darkness."

Adair, Gerald M.  "Illuminating the Ghost Light:  Final Acts in the Theater of Fritz Leiber."  Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 12.4 (2002): 364-381.

Notes some late autobiographical ghost stories, such as "The Button Molder," "Horrible Imaginings," and "The Ghost Light" and shows the influence of M.R. James, Henrik Ibsen, and Shakespeare's Macbeth. Leiber dramatized aspects of his life to confess his "dark night of the soul."

Allen, Paul C. "Of Sword and Sorcery: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser." Fantasy Crossroads  8 (1976): 40-42.

Anderson, Poul.  ."The Wizard of Newhon." In The Best of Fritz Leiber. New York:  Ballantine, 1974.

An interesting essay that discusses Leiber's major works not in the collection. Hw concludes, "Perhaps no other modern writers except James Brach Cabell and Vladimir Nabokov have gotten so much fun out of the human tragicomedy; and they, for all their wit, have never had Leiber's uninhibited gusto."

Anon.  "Essay on Fritz Leiber." In a whole number of Fantaasia, 2001.

Anon. Rev. of audiobook of The Wanderer.  Recorded Books.  Library Journal 117.21 (Dec. 1992): 210.

The reading by Norman Dietz is excellent.

Anon. Rev. of The Big Time.  Locus 26 (June 1991): 49.

Anon. Rev. of The Book of Fritz Leiber.  Booklist 15 April 1981, p. 1140.

Anon. "Books Must Balance."  National Review 18 (4 Oct. 1966): 1003-05.

Anon. Rev. of Changewar.  Publishers Weekly 1 April 1983, p. 58.

Anon. Rev. of Conjure Wife.  Analog 98 (July 1978): 172.

Anon. Rev. of Conjure Wife. Washington Post Book World  21 (25 Aug. 1991): 12.

Anon.  Rev. of Conjure Wife. Library Journal 113 (15 Nov. 1988): 28.

Anon. Rev. of Conjure Wife.  London Observer, 9 Nov. 1969, p. 31.

Anon. Rev. of Conjure Wife.  Washington Post Book World 14 (14 Oct. 1984): 12.

Anon. Rev. of Conjure Wife.  Washington Post Book World 14 (29 July 1984): 15.

Anon. Rev. of Conjure Wife/Our Lady of Darkness.  Locus 32 (Feb. 1994): 58.

Anon. Rev. of Conjure Wife/Our Lady of Darkness.  Locus 27 (Sept. 1991): 60.

Anon. Rev. of Conjure Wife/Our Lady of Darkness.  Necrofile (Summer 1991): 26.

Anon. Rev. Rev. of Conjure Wife/Our Lady of Darkness.  Science Fiction Chronicle 13 (Nov. 1991): 34.

Anon. Rev. of Conjure Wife/Our Lady of Darkness  Voice of Youth Advocates 14 (Feb. 1992): 384.

Anon. Review of Conjure Wife/Our Lady of Darkness.  Voice of Youth Advocates 15 (April 1992): 9.

Anon. Rev. of Dark Companions.  Kliatt 19 (Fall 1985): 20.

Anon. Rev. of The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich.  Booklist 83 (1 Feb. 1997): 929.

Anon. Rev. of The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich.  Kirkus Reviews 65 (1 Jan. 1997): 28.

Anon. Rev. of The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich.  Publishers Weekly 244.8 (24 Feb. 1997): 68.

Anon. Rev. of The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich. Science Fiction Chronicle 18 (Apr. 1997): 46.

Anon. Rev. of The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich.  Voice of Youth Advocates 21 (April 1998): 13.

Anon. Rev. of The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich. Voice of Youth Advocates 20 (Aug. 1997): 194.

Anon.  Rev. of The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich.  Washington Post Book World 27 (23 Feb. 1997): 11.

Anon. Rev. of Fafhrd and Me. Analog 111 (Oct. 1991): 161.

Anon. Rev. of Fafhrd and Me.  Locus 26 (Feb. 1991): 57.

Anon. Rev. of Fafhrd and Me. Locus 26 (March 1991): 21.

Anon. Rev. of Fafhrd and Me.  Science Fiction Chronicle 12 (May 1991): 33

Anon. Rev. of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Books 1-2.  Locus 26 (Feb. 1991): ?

Anon. Rev. of Fritz Leiber and H. P. Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark.   Ed. Benjamin Szumskyj.  Publishers Weekly 251.9 (1 March 2004): 55.

Remarks that devotees of Lovecraft and Leiber will be in heaven while reading this volume.

Anon.  Rev. of Gather, Darkness.  Booklist 15 April 1981, p. 1140.

Anon. Rev. of Gather, Darkness.  Kirkus Reviews 18 (1 Feb. 1950): 76.

Anon. Rev. of audiobook of Gather, Darkness.  Kliatt 36 (Sept. 2002): 53.

Anon. Rev. of Gather, Darkness.  Library Journal 117 (15 Nov. 1992): 112.

Anon. Rev. of Gather, Darkness.  Locus 29 (Nov. 1992): 55.

Anon. Rev. of Gather, Darkness.  Reprint Bulletin Book Review 26.4 (1981): 22.

Anon. Rev. of Gather, Darkness.  Saturday Review of Literature 33 (1 April 1950): 38.

Anon. Rev. of The Ghost Light.  Analog  104 (Dec. 1984): 143.

Anon. Rev. of The Ghost Light.  Booklist 1 April 1984, p. 1099.

Anon. Rev. of The Ghost Light.  Kirkus Reviews 52 (15 Feb. 1984): 174.

Anon. Rev. of The Ghost Light.  Kliatt 18 (Fall 1984): 29.

Anon. Rev. of The Ghost Light.  Library Journal 109 (15 April 1984): 826.

Anon. Rev. of The Ghost Light. Locus 28 (Jan. 1992): 58.

Anon.  Rev. of The Ghost Light.  Publishers Weekly 225 (2 March 1984): 87.

Anon. Rev. of The Ghost Light. Science Fiction Review 13 (May 1984): 22.

Anon.  Rev. of The Ghost Light. Voice of Youth Advocates 8 (April 1985): 55.

Anon. Rev. of The Ghost Light.  Washington Post Book World 107 (22 April 1984): 13.

Anon. Rev. of The Ghost Light.  West Coast Review of Books 11 (Jan. 1985): 53.

Anon. Rev. of The Ghost Light.  West Coast Review of Books 11 (Sept. 1985): 54.

Anon. Rev. of Gonna Roll the Bones.  Books in Canada 33.8 (Nov. 2004) 35.

Anon. Rev. of Gonna Roll the Bones.  Canter for Children's Books Bulletin 58.3 (Nov. 2004): 132.

Anon. Rev. of Gonna Roll the Bones.  Publishers Weekly 251.41 (11 Oct. 2004): 80.

Anon. Rev. of Gonna Roll the Bones.  School Library Journal 50.9 (Sept. 2004): 210.

Anon. Rev. of Gonna Roll the Bones.  Washington Post Book World 34.43 (24 Oct. 2004): 11.

Anon. Rev. of The Green Millennium.  Choice 24 (Dec. 1986): 592.

Anon. Rev. of Green Millennium.  Kirkus Reviews 21 (3 Sept. 1953): 598.

Anon. Rev. of Green Millennium.  Locus 28 (Jan. 1992): 47.

Anon. Rev. of Green Millennium.  New York Times Book Review, 22 Nov. 1953, p. 34.

Anon. Rev. of The Green Millennium.  Reprint Bulletin Book Review 26 3 (1981): 21.

Anon. Rev. of Green Millennium.  Science Fiction Chronicle 22 (Aug. 2001): 39.

Anon. Rev. of Gummitch and Friends.  Bookwatch 14 (Sept. 1993): 10.

Anon. Rev. of Gummitch and Friends.  Locus 30 (Apr. 1993): 48.

Anon.  Review of Gummitch and Friends.  Publishers Weekly 240.8 (22 Feb. 1993): 85.

Anon. Rev. of Heroes and Horrors.  Washington Post Book World 10 (27 July 1980): 12.

Anon. Rev. of I'll Met in Lankhmar.  Locus 24 (April 1990): 37.

Anon.  Rev. of I'll Met in Lankhmar.  Science Fiction Chronicle  17 (Feb. 1996): 44.

Anon. Rev. of I'll Met in Lankhmar.  Washington Post Book World 26 (28 April 1996): 16.

Anon. Rev. of Gummitch and Friends.  Wilson Library Bulletin  68 (Sept. 1993): 102.

Anon. Re. of Incarnate.  Kliatt 19 (Winter 1985): 18.

Anon. Rev. of Incarnate.  Science Fiction Review 14 (May 1985): 33.

Anon.  Rev. of H.P. Lovecraft and Fritz Leiber: Writers of the Dark.  Ed. S. T. Joshi. Publishers Weekly 251.9 (1 March 2004): 55.

Writes that fans of these two authors will be in heaven.

Anon. Rev. of The Knight and Knave of Swords.  Analog 109 (Aug. 1989): 175.

Anon. Rev. of The Knight and Knave of Swords.  Booklist 85 (15 Oct.1988): 345.

Anon. Rev. of The Knight and Knave of Swords.  Book Watch 10 (March 1989): 1.

Anon. Rev. of The Knight and Knave of Swords.  Kirkus Reviews 56 (1 Nov. 1988):139.

Anon.  Rev. of The Knight and Knave of Swords.  Library Journal 113 (Dec. 1988): 139.

Anon. Rev. of The Knight and Knave of Swords.  Locus 24 (March 1990): 64.

Anon. Rev. of The Knight and Knave of Swords.  Publisher's Weekly 234 (4 Nov. 1988): 75.

Anon.  Rev. of The Knight and Knave of Swords.  Publishers Weekly 237 (19 Jan. 1990): 104.

Anon. Rev. of The Knight and Knave of Swords.  Washington Post Book World 19 (29 Jan. 1989): 6.

Anon. Rev. of Kreativity for Kats and Other Feline Fantasies.  Locus 29 (Nov. 1992): 55.

Anon. Rev. of Lean Times in Lankhmar.  Washington Post Book World 26 (28 Apr. 1996): 44.

Anon. Rev. of The Leiber Chronicles.  Book Watch 11 (April 1990): 3.

Anon. Rev. of The Leiber Chronicles.  Kirkus Reviews 58 (1 April 1996): 17.

Anon. Rev. of The Leiber Chronicles. Locus 24 (April 1996): 23.

Anon. Rev. of The Leiber Chronicles.  Locus 26 (Feb. 1991): 37.

Anon. Rev. of The Leiber Chronicles.  Publisher's Weekly 237 (16 Feb. 1996): 71.

Anon. Rev. of The Leiber Chronicles.  Washington Post Book World 20 (25 Feb. 1996): 8.

Anon. Rev. of Night Monsters.  Times Literary Supplement, 31 May 1974, p. 591.

Praises the collection, particularly the stories "The Girl with the Hungry Eyes" and "Midnight in the Mirror World."  Notes that "His imagined fragments of dark have a tactile quality about them such as only the best writers in the genre achieve."

Anon. Rev. of Night of the Wolf.  Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 31 (Nov. 1966): 61.

Anon. Rev. of The Night of the Wolf.  Publishers Weekly 189 (6 June 1966): 234.

Anon. Rev. of Night's Black Agents.  Washington Post Book World, 5 March 1978, p F2.

Anon. Rev. of Night's Black Agents.  Wilson Library Bulletin 55 (March 1981): 533.

Anon. Rev. of Our Lady of Darkness.  Booklist 73 (1 Feb. 1977): 794.

Anon. Rev. of Our Lady of Darkness. Kirkus Reviews 44 (1 Dec. 1976): 1281.

Anon. Rev. of Our Lady of Darkness.  Kliatt 12 (Spring 1978): 12.

Anon. Rev. of Our Lady of Darkness.  Library Journal 102 (15 Feb. 1977): 517.

Anon. Rev. of Our Lady of Darkness.  Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 55 (Summer 1978): 30.

Anon. Rev. of Our Lady of Darkness.  Publishers Weekly 210 (22 Nov. 1976): 45.

Anon. Rev. of Our Lady of Darkness. Washington Post Book World 21 (25 Aug. 1991): 12.

Anon. Rev. of A Pail of Air.  Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 28 (March 1965): 53.

Anon. Rev. of Return to Lankhmar.  Science Fiction Chronicle 19 (Oct. 1997): 45.

Anon. Rev. of Rime Isle.  BS 38 (June 1978): 73.

Anon. Rev. of Rime Isle.  Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 56 (Feb. 1979): 62.

Anon. Rev. of Second Book of Lankhmar.  Science Fiction Chronicle 23 (March 2002): 37.

Anon. Rev. of Secret Songs.  Punch 255 (13 Nov. 1968): 711.

Anon.  Rev. of Ship of Shadows.  Voice of Youth Advocates 12 (Aug. 1989): 162.

Anon. Rev. of Ships to the Stars.  Kliatt 11 (Spring 1977): 11.

Anon. Rev. of The Silver Eggheads.  Punch 252 (1 March 1967): 320.

Anon. Rev. of The Sinful Ones.  Analog Science Fiction and Fact 27 April 1981, p. 158.

Anon. Rev. of The Sinful Ones.  Reprint Bulletin Book Review 26.3 (1981): 21.

Anon. Rev. of A Specter is Haunting Texas.  Library Journal 117. 15 (15 Sept. 1992): 98.

Mentions the impact of Lyndon Johnson's administration on Leiber and this novel.

Anon. Rev. of A Specter is Haunting Texas.  Library Journal 94 (Aug. 1969): 2808.

Anon. Rev. of A Specter is Haunting Texas.  Locus 29 (Aug. 1992): 54.

Anon. Rev. of A Specter is Haunting Texas.  Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 37 (Nov. 1969): 49.

Anon. Rev. of A Specter is Haunting Texas.  Publishers Weekly 195 (14 April 1969): 90.

Anon. Rev. of A Spectre is Haunting Texas.  B&B 15 (Feb. 1970): 40.

Anon. Rev. of A Spectre is Haunting Texas. London Observer, 21 Dec. 1969, p. 21.

Anon. Rev. of A Spectre is Haunting Texas.  Times Literary Supplement, 8 June 1970, p. 39.

Anon. Rev. of Swords Against Death. New York Times Book Review, 14 April 1974, p. 22.

Anon. Rev. of Swords Against Death.  Locus 25 (Sept. 1996): 60.

Anon. Rev. of Swords Against Wizardry.  Locus (Nov. 1990): 59.

Anon. Rev. of Swords and Deviltry. New York Times Book Review 14 April 1974, p. 22.

Anon. Rev. of Swords and Deviltry.  Wilson Library Bulletin 52 (May 1978): 693.

Anon. Rev. of  Swords in the Mist.  Locus 25 (Oct. 1996): 52.

Anon. Rev. of Swords in the Mist.  New Statesman 112 (10 Oct.1996): 29.

Anon. Rev. of Swords of Lankhmar.  Locus 25 (Dec. 1990): 53.

Anon. Rev. of  Swords of Lankhmar.  Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 35 (Summer 1968): 34.

Anon. Rev. of Swords of Lankhmar.  New Statesman 77 (6 June 1969): 808.

Anon. Rev. of Tarzan and the Valley of Gold.  Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 31 (Nov. 1966): 58.

Anon. Rev. of The Three Swords.  Locus 22 (May 1989): 48.

Anon. Rev. of audiobook of The Wanderer.  Bookwatch 14 (April 1993): 4.

Anon. Rev. of audiobook of The Wanderer.  Kliatt 27 (May 1993): 56.

Anon. Rev. of audiobook of The Wanderer.  Los Angeles Times Book Review (6 Dec.1992): 14.

Anon. Rev. of The Wanderer.  Library Journal 95 (15 May 1970): 1970.

Anon. Rev. of audiobook of The Wanderer.  Library Journal 117 (Dec. 1992): 210.

Anon. Rev. of The Wanderer.  Kirkus Reviews 38 (1 Feb. 1970): 135.

Anon. Rev. of The Wanderer. Booklist 15 April 1981, p. 1140.

Anon. Rev. of The Wanderer.  Library Journal 251.9 (June 2002): 55.

A brief mention.

Anon. Rev. of The Wanderer.  Punch 252 (10 May 1967): 697.

Anon. Rev. of The Wanderer.  Science Fiction Chronicle 21 (Aug. 2000): 43.

Anon. Rev. of The Wanderer. Times Literary Supplement , 15 June 1967, p. 543.

Anon. Rev. of The Wanderer.  Washington Post Book World 23 (March 1986): 13.

Anon. Rev. of Witches Three, by Fritz Leiber and Others.  Booklist 49 (1 May 1953): 284.

Anon. Rev. of Witches Three, by Fritz Leiber and Others. Saturday Review 36 (10 Jan. 1953) 17.

Conjure Wife.

Anon. Rev. of Worlds of Fritz Leiber.  Booklist 73  (1 Feb. 1977): 795.

Anon. Rev. of You're All Alone.  Locus 25 (Nov. 1996): 59.

Anon. Rev. of You're All Alone.  Small Press 8 (Dec. 1996): 45.

Anon. "Science Fiction in Short."  Times Literary Supplement No. 3769 (31  May 1974): 591.

Discusses Leiber's substantial contribution to science fiction.

Bartter, Martha A.  "Double Enchantment."  Rev. of Swords Against Death.  Fantasy Review  9.3 (March 1986): 20.

The stories "move enchantingly."

Barrett, Mike.  "From Simorgya to Stardock: The Odyssey of the Two Greatest Heroes in Lankhmar."  Fantasy Commentator 11.1 & 2 (Summer 2004): 36-43.

A descriptive survey of the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories.

Bieger, Marcel.  "Gesprach mit Fritz Leiber."  Science Fiction Times  (Germany) 25.3 (March 1983): 5-10.

Berglund, Edward P.  "The Shadows Over Fritz Leiber."  Fantasy Commentator 11.1 & 2 (Summer 2004): 118-23.

Berglund's essay provides excerpts from his letters with Leiber concerning the the history of Leiber's Cthulhu Mythos story "The Terror from the Depths."  Very revealing about Leiber's writing habits and his estimation of Lovecraft's mythology.

Bishop, Michael.  "Paperbacks:  The Worlds of Fritz Leiber."  Delap's Fantasy and Science Fiction Review 3.4 (April 1977): 29-31.

Bishop is generally disappointed with the quality of the stories here, but appreciates his wit, humor, and stylistic gymnastics."

Boucher, Anthony. Rev. of Gather, Darkness.  Chicago Sun, 3 April 1950,  p.5.

Breen, Jon.  Rev. of Night's Black Agents.  Wilson Library Bulletin 55 (March 1981): 533.

Budrys, Algis.  "Tales of Time and Space."  Washington Post Book World (5 March 1978): 1-2.

Notes that Leiber is often neglected.  He is "unfailingly entertaining on a very high level."

Bush, Margaret.  Review of picture book adapation, Gonna Roll the Bones.  Adapted by Sarah L. Thompson and illustrated by David Weisner.  School Library Journal 50.9 (Sept. 2004): 210.

Notes some flaws and distortions of Leiber's original.

Byfield, Bruce. "Fafhrd and Fritz."  Fantasy Commentator 11.1 & 2 (Summer 2004): 44-56.

A well-researched and close study of Leiber's published writings about his Fafhrd and Gray Mouser tales that shows that Leiber did not really present an accurate picture of the beginnings of the series and his relationship with Harry Fischer.  Byfield sets the record straight in this article.

Byfield, Bruce.  "Female Apparitions in Two Later Works by Fritz Leiber."  Niekas  No. 45 (July 1998): 90-94.

Byfield, Bruce.  "A Literary Newton:  A Suggestion for a Critical Appraisal of Fritz Leiber."  Mythlore [No. 63] 17.1 (Autumn 1990): 48-54.

Byfield, Bruce.  "Sister Picture of Dorian Gray:  The Image of the Female in Fritz Leiber's Conjure Wife."  Mythlore 17.4 [No. 66] (Summer 1991):24-28.

Cassada, Jackie.  Rev. of The Ghost Light.  Library Journal 108.9 (May 1983): 908.

Brief, favorable notice.

Cassada, Jackie. Rev. of The Ghost Light.  Library Journal 109.7 (15 April 1984): 826.

Notes Leiber's "peculiar brand of 'ghostless' ghost story."

Cassada, Jackie.  Rev. of The Knight and Knave of Swords. Library Journal 113.20 (Dec. 1988): 139.

Clements, Nicholaus.  "Lovecraft and the early Leiber."  Lovecraft Studies  No. 41 (Spring 1999): 23-24.

Clute, John.  "Reviews:  Our Lady of Darkness."  Foundation No. 14 (Sept. 1978): 64-66.

Clute criticizes the novel for making the main character so obviously a mirror of Leiber himself.  Regards the fabric of allusions to fantasy literature "a marketing decision."

Davenport, Basil.  Rev. of Witches Three, by Fritz Leiber and Others.  New York Times Book Review,  14 Dec. 1952, p. 16.

Conjure Wife.

D'Amato, Laura. Rev. of Gonna Roll the Bones.  Library Media Connection  23.6 (March 2005): 63.

Review of this illustrated older children's book that recommends it for public libraries.

Delap, Richard. "Fiction: Our Lady of Darkness." Delap's  Fantasy and Science Fiction Review 3.4 (April 1977): 4-5.

Praises the novel as "a fantastically successful tour-de-force of the entire genre."

Derleth, August.  Rev. of Gather, Darkness.  Chicago Sunday Tribune, 9 April 1950,  p. 7.

Di Fillippo, Pauk.  "Temporal Disorders."  Rev. of  The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich. Washington Post 120.80 (23 Feb. 1997): 11.

Doyle, E. D. Rev. of Night's Black Agents.  San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Jan. 1948, p. 19.

Dziemianowicz, Stefan.  "Dead Ringers: The Leiber-Loveccraft Connection."  Fantasy Commentator  11.1 & 2 (Summer 2004): 21-25.

Compares and contrasts Leiber's "The Dead Man" and Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep" and says that while they are stylistically different, the underlying themes are similar.  Leiber may have had Lovecraft's story in mind when he composed it.

Easton, Tom.  Rev. of The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich.  Analog Science Fiction and Fact 117.5 (May 1997): 149.

Easton, Tom.  Rev. of Fafhrd and Me. Analog Science Fiction-Science Fact 111.12 (Oct. 1991): 168

Easton, Tom.  Rev. of The Ghost Light.  Analog Science Fiction-Science Fact 104 (Dec. 1984) 147.

Easton, Tom.  Rev. of The Knight and Knave of Swords.  Analog Science Fiction-Science Fact 109.8 (Aug. 1989): 179.

Easton, Tom.  Rev. of The Sinful Ones.  Analog Science Fiction and Fact 101 (27 April 1981): 158.

Gerberding, Rodger.  "Into the Lovely Dark: Fritz Leiber."  Tales of the Unanticipated (Fall/Winter 1989-1990): 12-15.

Glaviano, Cliff.  Rev. of audiobook of The Wanderer.  Library Journal 117.21 (Dec. 1992): 210.

A good reading by Norman Dietz that is recommended.  Although some aspects of this 1960's novel are dated, still a good piece of writing.

Graham, Mark.  "'Orphan's Tent' Superb Fantasy."  Denver Rocky Mountain News, 11 May 1997.

A brief, favorable notice of The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich.

Fabun, Don.  Rev. of Gather, Darkness.  San Francisco Chronicle, 16 April 1950, p. 28.

Hamburger, Susan.  Rev. of The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich.  Library Journal 122.3 (Feb. 1997): 165.

A favorable, brief mention.

Hassler, Donald M.  "From Poets' Lives to Reader's Guides and Back."  Science Fiction Studies 8.3 (Nov. 1981): 339-40.

Heideman, Eric M.  "Fritz Leiber."  Lan's Lantern, No. 38 (July 1992): 6-7.

Heidemann, Eric M., Rodger Gerberding, and Terry A. Geary.  "An Interview with Fritz Leiber."  Tales of the Unanticipated: Fritz Leiber Section (Fall/Winter 1989/1990): 22-29.

Henderson, C.J.  "Starlog Interview:  Fritz Leiber."  Starlog No. 83 (June 1984):  54-58, 63.

Henderson, Chris.  "One Hundred Most Important People in Science Fiction/Fantasy: Fritz Leiber."  Starlog, No. 100 (November 1985): 15.

Holmes, H.H. "Science and Fantasy." Rev. of Green Millennium.  New York Herald Tribune Book Review, 18 Nov. 1953, p. 14.

Notes that the novel is "as imaginative, unexpected, even surrealist" as in any other of Leiber's works.

Holmes, H. H. "Science and Fantasy." Rev. Witches Three, by Fritz Leiber and Others. New York Herald Tribune Book Review, 21 Dec. 1952,  p .9

Regards Leiber's Conjure Wife as "the definitive novelistic treatment of witchcraft in the modern world" . . . . "a precisely balanced blend of fantasy and science fiction, of psychological novel and suspense melodrama."

Hough, Raymond L.  Rev. of Our Lady of Darkness. Library Journal 102.4 (Feb. 1977): 517.

Notes that the novel is a tribute to H.P. Lovecraft.

Howard, John.  "'In Smoke and Soot I Will Worship':  The Ghost Stories of Fritz Leiber."  Fantasy Commentator 11.1 & 2 (Summer 2004): 141-46.

Remarks that Leiber's ghost stories often blend the genres of science fiction, fantasy and horror.  Examines a few of Leiber's tales that may be called "ghost stories."  In them, Leiber presents "his own vision of the world--a Leiberian world where warm personal intimate things can encounter the Other, and be changed irreparably in a fraction of a second."

Howard, John.  "The Addition of Second Narratives: Textual Differences between Fritz Leiber's 'The Pale Brown Thing' and Our Lady of Darkness." Fantasy Commentator 11.1 & 2 (Summer 2004): 147-50.

Provides variant readings for Leiber's novella "The Pale Brown Think" and Our Lady of Darkness that points out that the two works may be read separately or together for greater depth.  A useful work of textual criticism.

Howard, John.  "Torrent of Eldritch Terrors: A Look at Fritz Leiber's story 'The Death of Princes' and Annotations."  Fantasy Commentator 11.1 & 2 (Summer 2004): 16-20.

Points out the allusive and cosmic nature of the story.  Leiber utilizes modern technology in the story, but ultimately, the story is about "a human being who has lived his whole life in the shadow of the cosmic, and is only just realizing it as he nears the end of his life, who experiences and mediates the horror.  Once the vista has been opened, it cannot be shut away again."  Provides a list of annotations of the allusions in the story.

Howard, John.  "Universe Shot Through with Invisible Forces: Our Lady of Darkness as a Lovecraftian Novel."  Fantasy Commentator 11.1 & 2 (Summer 2004): 103-17.

A reading of Leiber's novel by comparing it to Lovecraft's fiction. Brings into play the women in Leiber's and Lovecraft's lives, and shows how these may be likened  to anima figures, in C.G. Jung's terminology.  Concludes that both writers see the universe basically as indifferent to man, and Leiber's novel concludes with man being left to chance alone. 

Howard, John.  "'A Work of Love and a Lasting Creation': An Estimation of Harry Otto Fischer."  Studies in Fantasy Literature No. 2 (2004): 34-40.

Fascinating account of Leiber's friendship with Harry Fischer, who first proposed ideas that led to Leiber's Fafhrd and Gray Mouser fantasy stories.  Quotations from their letters and correspondence with H.P. Lovecraft are provided.

Joshi, S.T.  "Passing the Torch: H.P. Lovecraft's Influence on Fritz Leiber."  Fantasy Commentator 11.1 & 2 (Summer 2004): 65-74.

Studies Leiber's essays on Lovecraft and those stories inspired or influenced by Lovecraft's work.  Concludes that "Leiber remains a writer with things of his own to say;  the most important thing he drew from Lovecraft was some clues on how best to say them."

Kellerman, Carol.  Rev. of Gather, Darkness.  Kliatt 36.5 (Sept. 2002): 53.

A review of the audiobook of Leiber's novel Gather, Darkness!  Read by Stefan Rudnicki, this audiobook by Rudnicki is read in this resonant, deep bas voice, which is "perfect for reading this dark tale that probes the depths of power for evil purposes."  "Leiber has a fabulous command of language, which addes to the terror and hysteria of this suspense-filled story of futuristic possiblity."

Killus, James.  "Sleeping in Fritz Leiber's Bed."  New York Review of Science Fiction.  16.9 (May 2004) [No. 189]: 1, 8-11.

LaFaille, Gene.  Rev. of Gummitch and Friends.  Wilson Library Bulletin 68.1 (Sept. 1993): 102.

Laidlaw, Marc.  "From Lankhmar to the Tenderloin:  Two Early Pilgrimages to Fritz Leiber."  Science Fiction Eye No. 8 (Winter 1991): 79-83.

Lane, Joel.  "No Secret Place:  The Haunted Cities of Fritz Leiber."  Wormwood No. 10 (Spring 2008):  16-31.

A good study of Leiber's modern weird fiction.  "His writing takes the supernatural tradition, with its atmospheric qualities and its metaphysical overtones, into the tainted heart of the industrial city."

Langan, John.  "Sailing the True Void: H.P. Lovecraft in Fritz Leiber's The Wanderer."  Fantasy Commentator 11.1 & 2 (Summer 2004): 137-40.

Shows the influence of Lovecraft"s work on Leiber's novel and argues that the idea of an indifferent cosmos as presented in H.P. Lovecraft is quite similar to Leiber.  Rather than diminishing the impact of Lovecraft on Leiber, the influence  gives a richness and individuality to Leiber's work.

Laskowski, George.  "Modern Demons and a Twisted Mind:  The Fantastic Fiction of Fritz Leiber."  Lan's Lantern No. 38 (July 1992): 19-25.

Lee, Don.  "The Adventures of Dr. Dragonet:  A Brief Look at Fritz Leiber's Shortest-Ever Series." Fantasy Commentator 11.1 & 2 (Summer 2004): 141-46.

Discusses the two stories about the character of Dr. Dragonet, and asserts that in these minor pieces, Leiber intended only to entertain.

Leiber, Justin.  "Fritz Leiber and Eyes."  Fantasy Commentator 11.1 & 2 (Summer 2004): 98-102.

A reprint of the essay below.

Leiber, Justin.  "Fritz Leiber and Eyes."  Starship:  The Magazine about Science Fiction 16.3 (Summer 1979) 9-20.

The first version of an essay expanded for Philosophers Look at Science Fiction below.

Leiber, Justin.  "Fritz Leiber at Bay."  Locus 29.5 (Nov. 1992): 47-49.

Leiber, Justin.  "Fritz Leiber: Swordsman and Philosopher. Part 1: Heroic Artisan.:  Riverside Quarterly 8.4 (Aug. 1991) [No. 32]: 236-240.

Part One of a biographical essay on Leiber by his son Justin.  Notes the philosophical concerns in his father's fiction, and says, of him that he captured "the amazed unease" also found in Jorge Luis Borges.

Leiber, Justin.  "Fritz Leiber: Swordsman and Philosopher, Part Two, Philosophical Dramatizations."  Riverside Quarterly 9.1 (Aug. 1992) [No. 33]:36-44.

The second part of Leiber's son Justin's biographical essay.

Leiber, Justin.  "Fritz Leiber: Swordsman and Philosopher."  Fantasy Commentator 11.1 & 2 (Summer 2004): 26-35.

Reprints the essay in Riverside Quarterly above.

Lovett-Graff, B.  "Parodying the Theater of Religion in the Fantasy of Fritz Leiber."  Studies in American Humor 3.3 (1996): 66-81.

In Leiber's fiction, he regards the world "as fiction, and therefore as something never to be taken too seriously."  Leiber attempts "to keep his readers with their critical faculties fully intact," introducing "a whimsical streak of dark humor, which in 'Lean Times in Lankhmar,' serves also as a powerful tool for dissecting that other grand theatrical illusion: modern religion."

Malmgren, Carl D.  "Towards a Definition of Science Fantasy."  Science Fiction Studies 15.3 (Nov. 1988): 259-81.

Moorcock, Michael.  "Fritz Leiber."  Paradoxa 1.3 (1995): 320-24.

An interesting personal reminiscence of Leiber that describes the SF/F/H climate of the early 1960's with information about the editors of Amazing Stories and Fantastic Stories, who took a gamble on publishing Leiber's Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories and virtually created a market for them.

Moss, Harry.  "SF's Dean of Sci-fi:  A Birthday Visit with Fritz Leiber, the Man Who Helped Sword and Sorcery Literature."  San Francisco Magazine 2.12 (Dec. 1988): 25.

Newell, Dianne, and Jenea Tallentire, "For the Extended Family and the Universe:  Judith Merril and Science Fiction Autobiography."  Biography 30.1 (2007).

Comments on science fiction writer Judith Merril and her association and love affair with Fritz Leiber.

Olson, Ray.  Rev. of The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich.  Booklist 93.11 (Feb. 1997): 929.

Pardoe, Rosemary.  "Fritz Leiber's 'The Button Molder':  A Jamesian Story?"  Fantasy Commentator 11.1 & 2 (Summer 2004): 60-64.

Shows parallels between Leiber's story and the stories of M.R. James.  Argues that "unconsciously he has used Jamesian themes and techniques to produce something which is very definitely in the James tradition."  Also provides detailed annotations to the allusions and references in the story.

Pardoe, Rosemary.  "Our Lady of Darkness:  A Jamesian Classic?"  Fantasy Commentator 11.1 & 2 (Summer 2004): 151-68.

A close examination of Leiber's novel that points out parallels between it and the works of M.R. James.  Leiber admitted that he wrote a Jamesian short story that "just grew."  Provided are detailed annotations to the novel  by Pardoe, John Howard, and others.

Pratt, Fletcher. Rev. of Gather, Darkness.  New York Times Book Review, 16 July 1950, p. 19.

Purviance, Jim.  "Algol Interview:  Fritz Leiber."  Algol 15.3 (Summer/Fall 1978): 23-28.

Reinsberg, Mark.  Rev. of Green Millennium.  Chicago Sunday Tribune, 31 January 1954.

Rieder, John.  "Life Writing and Science Fiction:  Constructing Identities and Constructing Genres."  Biography 30.1 (2007).

Coments on the autobiographical elements in the works of Judith Merril and Leiber.

Rogers, Michael. Rev. of Gather Darkness.  Library Journal  117.19 (Nov. 1992): 112.

Notes the themes of paganism, religious suppression, and notes that the novel parodies former President Lyndon Johnson.

Rogers, Michael.  Rev. of A Spectre is Haunting Texas.  Library Journal 117.15 (Sept. 1992): 98.

Rogers, Michael.  Rev. of The Wanderer. Library Journal 127.10 (1 June 2002): 202.

A brief notice that recounts the plot in this omnibus review of classic reprints.

Sabella, Robert.  "Fritz Leiber:  A Chronology."  Lan's Lantern No. 38 (July 1992): 17.

Sadler, Tom.  "An Appreciation of Fritz Leiber's Fiction."  Lan's Lantern No. 38 (July 1992): 3-5.

Sadler, Tom.  "Thoughts on Fritz Leiber."  Lan's Lantern No. 38 (July 1992): 26.

Sandoe, James. Rev. of Night's Black Agents.  Chicago Sun, 30 Jan. 1948

Schweitzer, Darrell.  "Amazing Interview:  Fritz Leiber."  Amazing Science Fiction 50.2 (Sept. 1976): 59-75.

Schweitzer, Darrell.  "An Interview with Fritz Leiber."  Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine No. 15 (Winter 1992): 7-10.

Stableford, Brian.  "Creators of Science Fiction 9: Fritz Leiber,"  Interzone No. 123 (September 1997): 31-34.

Shippey, Tom. "The Golden Bough and the Incorporations of Magic in Science Fiction."  Foundation Nos. 11 and 12 (March 1977):  119-34.

An excellent essay that discusses Sir Janmes Frazer's famous book The Golden Bough on Leiber's Conjure Wife.  Concludes that Frazer's book "provided a rationale for magic, as exploited by Leiber in Conjure Wife."

Shumaker, Curtis Scott.  "Exorcism from Heaven:  A Brief Description and Explanation of Demons of the Upper Air."  Fantasy Commentator 11.1 & 2 (Summer 2004): 57-59.

A brief description of the poetry chapbook Demons of the Upper Air.  Unlike Lovecraft, Leiber, in these poems "found a way to embrace the darkness, to revel in to, to gain knowledge from it."

Shumaker, Curtis Scott.  "Knight Moves: Chess and Psychology in Leiber's Fiction.""  Fantasy Commentator 11.1 & 2 (Summer 2004): 169-73.

Analyzes four of Leiber's science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories and concludes that in them, "Leiber, through his chess expertise, provides a hidden layer of meaning that only a chess playing audience can fully uncover."

Shumaker, Curtis Scott.  "Shadow, Anima and Sinister Landscapes: Leiber's Women and Jungian Archetypes." Fantasy Commentator 11.1 & 2 (Summer 2004): 75-80.

An analysis of some of Leiber's characters from the perspective of the psychological theories of C.G. Jung. Concludes that "knowledge of the Shadow and Anima simply allows readers of Leiber threads of connection between and deeper dimensions to his main male and female characters."

The Silver Eel: Special Fritz Leiber Issue Devoted to Faffhrd and the Grey Mouser.  Evensville, Tennessee: R. P. Barger, 1978.

Conents:  "Address to the Lankhmar Literary Guild," by Karl Edward Wagner, "The Grey Mouser and the Game," by Harry Otto Fischer. "The Two Greatest Heroes in Lankhmar," by Mike Barrett, "Bibliography--The World of Hehwon: Heroic Anarchy," by Thomas M. Egan, "A Look at Science Fiction anf Fantasy:  Wargaming," by Ken St. Andre.

Stamm, Michael E.  "Bits of the Dark World: The Horror Fiction of Fritz Leiber."  Fantasy Commentator 11.1 & 2 (Summer 2004): 6-15.

A revised version of Stamm's essay in Discovering Modern Horror Fiction II below.

Stamm, Michael E.  "Wonderful Nightmare." Rev. of The Sinful Ones.  Fantasy Review 9.4 (April 1986): 25.

"There is a wonderful nightmare surrealism" in Leiber's treatment of fantasy and horror.

Stein, Olga.  "Children's Books." Rev. of Gonna Roll the Bones. Books in Canada 33.8 (Nov. 2004): 35.

Steinberg, Sybil.  Rev. of The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction.  Publishers Weekly 236.10 (8 Sept. 1989.

Steinberg, Sybil.  Rev. of The Knight and Knave of Swords.  Publishers Weekly 234.19 (4 Nov. 1988): 75.

Steinberg, Sybil.  Rev. of The Leiber Chronicles:  Fifty Years of Fritz Leiber.  Publishers Weekly 237.7 (16 Feb. 1990): 71.

Steinberg, Sybil.  Rev. of Gummitch and Friends.  Publishers Weekly 240.8 (Feb. 1993): 85.

Stevens, Deborah.  Rev. of Gonna Roll the Bones.  Center for Children's Books Bulletin 58.3 (Nov. 2004): 132.

Streitfeld, David.  "Science Fiction and Fantasy."  Washington Post Book World (31 Aug. 1997).

An overview of the grand old masters of science fiction and fantasy and notes how significant Leiber's contribution in horror fiction as well as science fiction and fantasy.

Szumskyj, Benjamin.  "Fritz Leiber:  Chicago's Oneiromancer."  Fantasy Commentator 11.1 & 2 (Summer 2004): 4-5.

An introduction to this Fritz Leiber issue of Fantasy Commentator, which stresses how much critics have neglected his work--a fact that seems incongruous with his reputation.

Tallentire, Jenea.  "For the Extended Family and the Universe:   Judith Merril and Science Fiction Autobiography."  Biography (1 Jan. 2007).

A good study of Merril and her activities in the field of science fiction in the 1940's and 1950's. Leiber and his relationship with Merril is discussed at some length.  Notes that Leiber, who lived in San Francisco, was somewhat out of the circles of science fiction authors.

Thiel, John. "Fritz Leiber:  A Man of Variety."  Lan's Lantern No. 38 (July 1992): 18.

Wade, James.  "Fritz Leiber Revisited:  From Hyde Park to Geary Street." Whispers 4: 43-47.

Walbridge, E. F. Rev. of Gather, Darkness.  Library Journal 75 (1 April 1950): 560.

Ward, Elizabeth. Rev. of Gonna Roll the Bones.  Washington Post Book World 34.43 (24 Oct. 2004): 11.

Waugh, Robert.  "Fritz Leiber's Our Lady of Darkness:  Lovecraft, the Compound Ghost." Studies in Modern Horror 3 (2004): 7-18.

A fine study of Leiber's last novel that notes the fabric of allusions in the work.  Waugh differs from earlier critics who say it is a Lovecraftian tale.  Points out the differences and similarities and concludes that the last word of the novel, "chancy," encapsulates Leiber's world view, which is different from Lovecraft.

Weinkauf, Mary S. "Paperbacks: The Book of Fritz Leiber."   Delap's Science Fiction and Fantasy Review 3.4 (April 1977):29

Remarks "Leiber's work gets inside the human mind and down to the layers where myth waits to unite individual experience to the pattern we call humanity."

Wells, Mark.  "Orycon '80 Convention Four-Way Telephone Conversation:  Arthur C. Clarke, Harlan Ellison, Fritz Leiber, Mark Wells." Science Fiction Review 10.3 (August 1981): 12-17.

Williamson, Jack.  "Blasts from the Past:  Two Publishers Keep the Classics of Science Fiction in Print."  Omni 15.9 (July 1993: 24.

A review of two publishers of science fiction classics (Collier Books and Carol and Graf), including reprints of works be Leiber