In 1936 the young Franz Leiber, then in correspondence with the famous writer H. P. Lovecraft, drafted this eerie story. It is a short novel of cosmic dread and horror.
Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. (1910–1992) was an American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. The son of a pair of Shakespearian actors, Leiber was also an actor, expert chess player, and champion fencer. Born in Chicago in 1910, Leiber spent his youth touring with his parents' theater company. He graduated…
