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1910–1992 United States

Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction.

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Old legends said Death had a skinny sister denominated Pain, passionately devoted to the loathsome torture that often was Death’s prelude.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)

Afterward loses too many battles to Too Late.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)

“You’ve got to believe there’s some sort of sense in everything that crazies say.”
“Crazies?”
“All of us.”

Our Lady of Darkness (1977)

The only thing robots couldn’t do, it seemed, was sit in foxholes. That was one place where Phil recalled no mechanical competition.

The Green Millennium (1953)

I think all modern cities, especially the crass, newly built, highly industrial ones, should have ghosts. They are a civilizing influence.

Our Lady of Darkness (1977)

Things are different from what I thought. They’re much worse.

Conjure Wife (1953)

Revenge is empty. It cannot bring back the dead.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)

Eventually the tale came to an end, suddenly and seemingly in the middle, like a piece of foreign music.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)

Pulg, alongside his pink streak of sentimentality, had recently taken to sporting a gray one of superstition.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)

Not “according to rule” and “something more”—those are the watchwords of the literature of supernatural dread.

Terror, Mystery, Wonder (1980)

Thieves and astrologers moved restlessly in their sleep, sensing that the hours of night and work were drawing near.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)

It was the laughter of the Elder Gods observing their creature man and noting their omissions, miscalculations and mistakes.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)

There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky.

The Wanderer (1964)

To merit serious consideration, fiction of any sort must satisfy one pragmatic requirement (making due allowance for the time and place when it was written): Does it convince the reader?

Terror, Mystery, Wonder (1980)

I am up to date only sporadically. I live firmly in the world of art, where reality and fantasy are one.

Our Lady of Darkness (1977)

Women are horrible. I mean, quite as horrible as men. Oh, is there anyone in the wide world that has aught but ice water in his or her veins?

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)

There was an omnipresent sense of crisis.

The Wanderer (1964)

The Devourers want to brood about their great service to the many universes—it is their claim that servile customers make the most obedient subjects for the gods.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)

Knowledge takes precedence over death.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)

I know, I know, the folk here are narrow-visioned, custom-bound. But matched with the twisted minds of civilization, they’re straight as pines.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Fritz Leiber (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.