Films and Related Items

Aigner, Hal, and Michael Goodwin.  "The Orchestration of Fear: City Interviews Science Fiction Writer, Fritz Leiber." 6.46 (Aug, 21-Sept, 3, 1974).

Anon. Fritz Leiber Remembered. San Francisco, CA:  Familiar Productions, 1992.  Videocassette. 55 min.

Anon. Rev. of film The Girl with the Hungry Eyes.  Variety 358.3 (20 Feb. 1995): 74.

Bansak, Edmund G.  Fearing the Dark: The Val Lewton Career.  Jefferson, NC: MacFarland, 1995.

Discussses the 1943 film Weird Woman, based on Leiber's Comjure Wife.

Anon.  The Girl with the Hungry Eyes.  Internet Movie Database.  The Girl with the Hungry Eyes (1995)

A superbly dark, sensuous, and disturbing horror film inspired by Leiber's famous story.  Jon Jacobs skillfully writes and directs.  Gary Tieche's cinematography works well with Paul Inder's music and the sound effects.  Set in Miami, Florida, the film follows Carlos, a freelance photographer and artist, who has a deeply and sexually horrifying relationship with his model, Louise, who is a vampire.

Anon. Night of the Eagle (aka Burn, Witch, Burn).  Internet Movie Database. Night of the Eagle (1962)

Anon.  Weird Woman.  Internet Movie Database.  Weird Woman (1944)

Byfield, Bruce, ed.  "Fafhrd and the Scott:  Letters from Fritz Leiber to Franklin MacKnight, 1932-1943." New York Review of Science Fiction, No. 106 (June 1997): 1, 10-13. [Reprinted in the Summer 2004 issue of Fantasy Commentator].

Transcribes with commentary by Byfield Leiber's letters to Franklin MacKnight to show that MacKnight, a lifelong friend, had a powerful impact on Leiber's outlook and work.

Chaykin, Howard V. Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser.  New York: Epic Comics, 1990-    .

Comic book renderings of the stories.

Conjure Wife.  Audiobook.  Audio Literature, 2002.

Audio recording of the novel.

Eberhart, John Mark.  "15 More: Other Midswestern Writers to Watch."  Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2005.

Mentions author Robin Wayne Bailey, who was given permission by Fritz Leiber to write stories based on his Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories.

Farley, Alan.  Focus on Fritz Leiber.  Audiobook.

Leiber, in conversation with Alan Farley, discusses his novel Our Lady of Darkness, as well as his own background and writing efforts in science fiction and fantasy.

Garrett, Randall.  An Hour with Fritz Leiber.  Cassette recording.  Garden Grove,  CA: Hourglass Grand Productions 10292, 1978.

Hardy, Phil, ed.  The Encyclopedia of Horror Movies. New York:  Harper and Row, 1986.

Entries on the films Weird Woman and Night of the Eagle (aka Burn, Witch, Burn) discuss these two low budget films based on Leiber's novel Conjure Wife. Notes that Night of the Eagle is far superior to Weird Woman.

Jarrett, Steve.  "Hunt Down Classic Witchcraft Films."  The News and Record (13 July 1996).

Brief commentary on Burn, Witch, Burn.

Kellerman, Carol. Rev. of audiobook of Gather, Darkness.  Kliatt, 1 Sept. 2002.

Praises Stefan Rudnicki's deep, resonant voice, perfect for the novel because Leiber "has a fabulous command of language."

Leiber, Fritz.  "Black Corridor."

A manuscript of Leiber's story at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Leiber, Fritz.  Worldcon Guest of Author Speeches.  ISFIC Press, 2006.

Leiber, Fritz, Harry Otto Fischer, and Franklin MacKnight.  Gray Mouser Saga Fantasy Conference Held March 20, 1982, at the Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library.  VHS Tape.  Clarksburg, WV: The Library, 1982.

Merrill, Judith.  Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merrill.  New York: Between the Lines, 2002.

Discusses Merrill's affair with Fritz Leiber.

Papers, 1907-1968.

Letters to August Derleth.  Microfilm held in the archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society.

Papers, 1945-1985.

Correspondence with Walter S. Tevis.  Housed at Indiana University.

Presser, ArLynn Leiber.  "The Ghost Light."  TriQuarterly 22 Dec. 2005.

A sad, moving narrative by Leiber's grandaughter about her relationship with him.

Skal, David.  Vampires: Encounters with the Undead.  Black Dog and Leventhal, 2001.

Szumskyj, Ben J., and S.T. Joshi, eds. Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft:  Writers of the Dark.  Holicong, PA:  Wildside Press, 2003.

Szumskyj's introduction to this edition of Leiber's correspondence with H.P. Lovecraft and Leiber's essays on Lovecraft's work points out that Leiber understood Lovecraft's work better than any other writer. Notes that Leiber's "Lovecraftian" tales stand on their own as Leiber's unique work, apart from Lovecraft.  S.T. Joshi supplies an afterword.

Walker, Paul.  "An Interview with Fritz Leiber."  The Alien Critic 5 (May 1973): 10-15.

Weaver, Tom. Return of the B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999.

Richard Matheson discusses his association with the British film version of Conjure Wife.

Anon. Rev. of the above book."SF/Fantasy/Horror Notes."  Publishers Weekly 251.9 (1 March 2004): 55.

A brief notice that says that all fans of Lovecraft and Leiber will "be in heaven" upon reading the book.