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Our Lady of Darkness
''Our Lady of Darkness'' (1977) by Fritz Leiber is an urban fantasy. The novel is distinguished for three elements: the heavily autobiographical elements in the story, the use of Jungian psychology that informs the narrative, and its detailed description of "Megapolisomancy", a fictional occult science. It was originally published in shorter form as "The Pale Brown Thing." (Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Feb 1971).
==Autobiographical Elements==
Like the protagonist Franz Western, at the time that Leiber wrote the novel, he was recovering from his wife's death a number of years ago, and his own subsequent descent into alcoholism. Like the author himself, Western is an amateur astronomer who is deliberately looking for ways to re-engage with the life around him, and who lives at an address (811 Geary St) that Leiber lived at during the early 1970s. The scenes of the novel are all actual San Francisco locations, including the fateful Corona Heights and the Sutro TV Tower behind it, and, as late as 2012, fantasy fans could take a walking tour of the city that included all the main settings. Several of the other characters are thinly disguised versions of people active in Bay Area fandom in the mid-1970s.
The novel is also shot through with a knowledge of fantasy, especially authors like Jack London and the baroque poet Clark Ashton Smith who lived part of their lives in San Francisco. The title itself is taken from Thomas De Quincey's ''Suspiria de Profundis'', and references are also made to Montague Rhodes James' ghost stories, and other fantasy/horror writers such as H.P. Lovecraft. These allusions add an element of metafiction to the story, making it almost as much an examination and description of horror and the imagination as a straightforward story.
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