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Beschreibung
Professor Norman Saylor considered magic nothing more than superstition. Then he learned that his own wife was a practicing sorceress. But he still refuses to accept the truth...that in the secret occult warfare that governs our lives, magic is a matter of life and death.
Filmed twice, as Weird Woman (1944) and Burn Witch Burn (1961), this tale of secret witchcraft on a modern college campus is as readable today as the day it was written.

Fritz Leiber's classic story of terror
CONJURE WIFE
made into the American-International movie
Norman Taylor thought it was absurd for his
beautiful wife, Tansy, to believe in black
magic. He made her throw her potions,
charms and amulets into the fire. After all, he
was a college professor, a rational man who
didn't believe in superstition.
Then, his troubles began ... phone calls in
the dead of night, a student who threatened
him with a gun, and a hideous gargoyle-like
creature who stalked him about the campus,
one whom he alone could see.
Slowly, an atmosphere of palpable evil encircled
him until the truth could no longer be
denied. There were witches all around him,
conniving for his soul, lusting for his body ...
and he was powerless to defend himself.

"Easily the most convincing and the most frightening of all modern horror stories"
--Damon Knight
Professor Norman Saylor considered magic nothing more than superstition. Then he learned that his own wife was a practicing sorceress. But he still refuses to accept the truth...that in the secret occult warfare that governs our lives, magic is a matter of life and death.
Filmed twice, as Weird Woman (1944) and Burn Witch Burn (1961), this tale of secret witchcraft on a modern college campus is as readable today as the day it was written.

Fritz Leiber's classic story of terror
CONJURE WIFE
made into the American-International movie
Norman Taylor thought it was absurd for his
beautiful wife, Tansy, to believe in black
magic. He made her throw her potions,
charms and amulets into the fire. After all, he
was a college professor, a rational man who
didn't believe in superstition.
Then, his troubles began ... phone calls in
the dead of night, a student who threatened
him with a gun, and a hideous gargoyle-like
creature who stalked him about the campus,
one whom he alone could see.
Slowly, an atmosphere of palpable evil encircled
him until the truth could no longer be
denied. There were witches all around him,
conniving for his soul, lusting for his body ...
and he was powerless to defend himself.

"Easily the most convincing and the most frightening of all modern horror stories"
--Damon Knight
Über den Autor
Fritz Leiber was a major American writer of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and sword-and-sorcery fiction, admired for his range, intelligence, wit, and stylistic control. The son of Shakespearean actors, Leiber brought theatrical awareness, literary sophistication, and psychological subtlety to popular fiction. He wrote across the major speculative genres with equal confidence, producing urban horror, satirical science fiction, supernatural fiction, and heroic fantasy that helped shape the field.Leiber is especially famous for creating Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, one of the defining partnerships in sword-and-sorcery fiction, but his science fiction and horror are equally important. Works such as Gather, Darkness!, The Big Time, Conjure Wife, Our Lady of Darkness, and numerous magazine stories reveal a writer fascinated by power, performance, fear, society, and the unstable boundary between the rational and the uncanny. His fiction won multiple major genre awards and continues to stand as one of the central achievements of twentieth-century speculative literature.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Importe, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781773238692
ISBN-10: 1773238698
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Leiber, Fritz
Hersteller: Must Have Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 7 mm
Von/Mit: Fritz Leiber
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2022
Gewicht: 0,164 kg
Artikel-ID: 127194863