| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Lee, Tanith |
These Beasts (from an idea by John Kaiine) |
1995 JUN |
ss |
has novels The Quest of the White Witch(1978; N-1979 BFA), Lycanthia(1981; N-1982 LOC), The Silver Metal Lover(1981), Sung in Shadow(1983), Days of Grass(1985); colls. Red as Blood(1983; N-1984 LOC, WFA), The Gorgon(1985), Dreams of Dark and Light(1986) |
| |
Reason for Not Going to the Ball, The (A Letter to Cinderella From Her Stepmother) |
1996 OCT/NOV |
ss |
dedicates story to Terri Windling & her anth. The Armless Maiden(1995), fairy tales used to discuss the darkside of childhood; has Secret Books of Paradys ser., The Book of the Damned(1988), ... Beast(1988), ...Dead(1991), ... Mad(1993) |
| |
All the Birds of Hell |
1998 OCT/NOV |
nv |
N-1999 LOC, nv; has colls. Forests of the Night(1989), Women as Demons(1989), Nightshades(1993); Blood Opera ser., Dark Dance(1992), Personal Darkness(1993), Darkness, I(1994); A Heroine of the World(1989); Faces Under Water(1998), sequel Saint Fire(1999) |
| Lee, William |
To Gild a Unicorn |
1972 AUG |
nv |
also in F&SF as William M. Lee, for 3 earlier stories, in 1967 NOV, 1968 JUN & 1969 APR |
| |
Too Many Goblins |
1973 APR |
ss |
|
| Lee, William M. |
Message From Charity, A |
1967 NOV |
ss |
a director of research; there is little information on Lee, except that he was from Ambler, PA., & was a client of the Scott Meredith Agency; Barry N. Malzberg says "He died in the 70's at what was not an advanced age & I can't add much to that." |
| |
Sea Home |
1968 JUN |
nv |
also in F&SF as William Lee, in 2 more stories, in 1972 AUG & 1973 APR |
| |
Trouble on Kort |
1969 APR |
nv |
|
| Lee, Yoon Ha |
Hundredth Question, The |
1999 FEB |
ss |
her 1st short fiction sale; currently an undergraduate at Cornell Univ. |
| Lehrman, Herb |
Ancient Last, The |
1965 JUN |
vi |
1st place winner in Univac-unicorn short story contest; prize $100.00; age 35, has a BA from a middle-western grad school |
| |
Revolt of the Potato-Picker |
1966 JUL |
ss |
|
| Leiber, Fritz |
When the Last Gods Die |
1951 DEC |
ss |
(1910-1992) writer, editor, drama teacher; studied psychology & physiology at Univ. of Chicago, spent one year at a theological seminary; 1st story pub. "Two Sought Adventure" in UNK 1939 AUG, the first story in his Fafhrd & Gray Mouser series |
| |
Big Holiday, The |
1953 JAN |
ss |
has novels Gather, Darkness!(ASF 1943 MAY-JUL; 1950), Conjure Wife(UNK 1943 APR; 1953; N-1987 LOC; made into 1944 movie Weird Woman, & 1962 movie Burn, Witch, Burn!), You're All Alone(FAD 1950 JUL; 1953; 1972; 1980), coll. Night's Black Agents(1947) |
| |
Silence Game, The |
1954 APR |
ss |
has story "The Girl with the Hungry Eyes," in Wollheim(ed): The Girl with the Hungry Eyes(1949), made into movie same title in 1995; novels The Green Millennium(1953), Destiny Times Three(ASF 1945 MAR-APR; 1957) |
| |
Last |
1957 MAR |
vi |
has Fafhrd & Gray Mouser ser. colls. Two Sought Adventure(1957; exp. rev. vt Swords Against Death, 1970), Swords in the Mist(1968), Swords Against Wizardry(1968), The Swords of Lankhmar(1970), Swords and Deviltry(1970), Swords and Ice Magic(1977) |
| |
Big Trek, The |
1957 OCT |
ss |
his friend Harry Fischer suggested in 1934 the characters of Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser; Lieber viewed himself as Fafhrd, & Harry as the Gray Mouser; details in essay "Fafhrd & Me" in colls. The Second Book of Fritz Leiber(1975), and in Fafhrd & Me(1991) |
| |
Deskful of Girls, A |
1958 APR |
nv |
N-1959 HUG, novelette; 1st story in F&SF Change War series; also in series, novel The Big Time(GAL 1958 MAR-APR; W-1958 HUG; 1961), colls. The Mind Spider and Other Stories(1961; rev. 1976), The Change War(1978; cut vt Changewar, 1983) |
| |
Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-TAH-Tee |
1958 MAY |
ss |
N-1959 HUG, short story; 1st & only story in F&SF in Simon Grue series(one other story in series "Pipe Dream" in IFS 1959 FEB) |
| |
Little Old Miss Macbeth |
1958 DEC |
ss |
this story mentioned by Judith Merril in her profile of Leiber in F&SF's Special Fritz Leiber Issue(1969 JUL, p.58), as "by far the most advanced piece of symbolic writing Leiber had done, ... his first really effective use of Shakesperean background" |
| |
Silver Eggheads, The |
1959 JAN |
na |
an example of recursive sf, expanded into a novel in 1962 |
| |
Oldest Soldier, The |
1960 MAY |
ss |
2nd story in F&SF Change War series, about a time-paradox war being fought through time and space and alternate worlds by two factions, the "Spiders" & the "Snakes" |
| |
Man Who Made Friends With Electricity, The |
1962 MAR |
ss |
has colls. Shadows with Eyes(1962), A Pail of Air(1964), Ships to the Stars(1964) |
| |
Books: Mutterings From Underground |
1962 MAY |
br |
discusses "the provocative issue of the status of the science fiction author in a status-seeking world"; see his retrospective colls. The Black Gondolier(2000), Smoke Ghost(2002) |
| |
Secret Songs, The |
1962 AUG |
ss |
has 4 Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser stories, novellas "Scylla's Daughter" in FAN 1961 MAY, N-1962 HUG, & "Stardock" in FAN 1965 SEP, N-1966 HUG, & "The Snow Women" in FAN 1970 APR, N-1971 LOC, & novelette "The Unholy Grail" in FAN 1962 OCT, N-1963 HUG |
| |
Myths My Great-Granddaughter Taught Me |
1963 JAN |
ss |
has short story "Cyclops" in WOT 1965 SEP, N-1965 NEB; short story "The Good New Days" in GAL 1965 OCT, N-1965 NEB |
| |
Game for Motel Room |
1963 MAR |
ss |
has short story "Answering Service" in IFS 1967 DEC, N-1967 NEB; novelette "Gonna Roll the Bones," in Harlan Ellison(ed): Dangerous Visions(1967), W-1967 NEB; 1968 HUG |
| |
Kindergarten |
1963 APR |
vi |
has short stories "Midnight by the Morphy Watch" in IFS 1974 JUL/AUG, N-1975 HUG, LOC; "Belsen Express," in The Second Book of F.L.(1975), W-1976 WFA; Leiber W-1976 WFA, & 1988 STO, for Lifetime Achievement; W-1980 NEB, Grandmaster Award |
| |
Success |
1963 JUL |
vi |
has short story "The Death of Princes" in AMZ 1976 JUN, N-1977 LOC; novelettes "Dark Wings," in Ramsey Campbell(ed): Superhorror(1976), N-1977 WFA; "A Rite of Spring," in Terry Carr(ed): Universe 7(1977), N-1977 NEB; 1978 LOC |
| |
237 Talking Statues, Etc. |
1963 SEP |
ss |
has novelettes "Black Glass" in Peter Weston(ed): Andromeda 3(1978), N-1979 LOC; "The Button Molder" in Whispers 1979 OCT, W-1980 BFA; N-1980 BRG, LOC, WFA; see article "The Button Molder: A Jamesian Story?" in G&S #22 1996 |
| |
Books |
1964 JAN |
br |
H.P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror and Others |
| |
When the Change-Winds Blow |
1964 AUG |
ss |
has sf novel The Wanderer(1964), W-1965 HUG, a long disaster novel about the havoc caused when a strange planet enters the solar system(Clute); has colls. The Night of the Wolf(1966), The Secret Songs(1968 UK), Night Monsters(1969 chap) |
| |
Four Ghosts in Hamlet |
1965 JAN |
nv |
N-1965 NEB, novelette; after months of research on the Ape Man & the South American jungle, Leiber wrote the first authorized Tarzan novel written by anyone besides Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Valley of Gold(1966) |
| |
Books |
1965 AUG |
br |
Leo Marguilies(ed): Worlds of Weird; Damon Knight(ed): The Dark Side; Miriam Allen deFord(ed): Space, Time & Crime; Frederik Pohl(ed): The Eighth Galaxy Reader |
| |
Books |
1965 DEC |
br |
Aleksandr Beliayev: The Struggle in Space; Clark Ashton Smith: Poems in Prose |
| |
Books |
1966 APR |
br |
Merril(ed): 10th Annual Edition, the Year's Best SF; Damon Knight(ed): 13 French Science-Fiction Stories, & Beyond Tomorrow; Alfred Hitchcock(ed): Stories Not for the Nervous; Brian W. Aldiss(ed): Best Fantasy Stories; George Brandon Saul: Owl's Watch |
| |
Books |
1966 MAY |
br |
L. Sprague de Camp(ed): The Spell of Seven; Leo Marguulies(ed): The Ghoul Keepers; H.P. Lovecraft: Selected Letters, 1911-1924, & Dagon and Other Macabre Tales |
| |
Books |
1966 JUN |
br |
Hans Stefan Santesson(ed): Rulers of Men; Tom Boardman Jr(ed): The Unfriendly Future; Groff Conklin(ed): Five Unearthly Visions; Brian W. Aldiss(ed): Yet More Penguin Science Fiction; Amis & Conquest(ed): Spectrum IV; Nolan(ed): The Pseudo-People |
| |
Inner Circles, The |
1967 OCT |
ss |
has novels A Spectre Is Haunting Texas(GAL 1968 JUL-SEP; 1969); Our Lady of Darkness(1977; W-1978 WFA; N-1978 GAN, LOC); see "Our Lady of Darkness: A Universe Shot Through with Invisible Forces" & "O.L.of D.: A Jamesian Story?" in G&S #20 1995 |
| |
Turned-Off Heads, The |
1968 JAN |
vi |
see interviews in AMZ 1976 SEP, TWZ 1982 MAR, TotU #6 1989, MZBFM 1992 WIN; articles "Of Sword & Sorcery: Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser" in Fantasy Crossroads #8 1976, "The Ghosts Stories of F.L." in All Hallows #4 1993 |
| |
Ship of Shadows |
1969 JUL |
na |
W-1970 HUG, N-1969 NEB, na; written especially for this issue, story "takes place on a space ship, but one with a witch cat and vampires numbered among the passengers!"; see book Bruce Byfield: Witches of the Mind: A Critical Study of Fritz Leiber(1991) |
| |
Demons of the Upper Air, IIX |
1969 JUL |
pm |
this poem to be incl. in his booklet of poems, The Demons of the Upper Air(1969); has colls. The Best of Fritz Leiber(1973; W-1975 LOC), The Book of Fritz Leiber(1974; N-1975 LOC), The Second Book of Fritz Leiber(1975; N-1976 LOC) |
| |
Introduction to Fritz Leiber's "Ill Met in Lankhmar" |
1970 APR |
in |
intro to his Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser ser.; "... I became haunted by the question of how these 2 men ever did come to meet ... I sensed some crucial adventure was involved, & I was fairly sure it had taken place in Lankhmar on a dark & misty night ..." |
| |
Ill Met in Lankhmar |
1970 APR |
na |
W-1970 NEB; 1971 HUG, na; N-1971 LOC, shfi; 1st story in F&SF in Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser series; story tells how Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser met; 1st story in series "Two Sought Adventure" in UNK 1939 AUG, rest pub. mostly in UNK & FAN |
| |
Price of Pain Ease, The |
1971 NOV |
ss |
2nd & last story in Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser ser.; 1st pub. in Swords Against Death(1970); other books in ser., Rime Isle(Cosmos SF&F Mag. 1977 MAY-JUL; 1977), omnibuses The Knight and Knave of Swords(1988), The Three Swords(1989), & Swords' Masters(1990) |
| |
Lotus Eaters, The |
1972 OCT |
ss |
has colls. Worlds of Fritz Leiber(1976; N-1977 LOC), Bazaar of the Bizarre(1978), Heroes and Horrors(1978; N-1979 WFA), Ship of Shadows(1979; N-1980 LOC), The Ghost Light(1984; W-1985 LOC), The Leiber Chronicles(1990; N-1991 LOC, WFA) |
| |
Cat Three |
1973 OCT |
ss |
see iv in Platt: Dream Makers II(1983; rev. 1987); ar's "Dead Ringers: The Leiber-Lovecraft Connection" in Crypt of Cythulhu #76 1990, & "The Creators of Science Fiction - #9: Fritz Leiber" in INZ 1997 SEP; see website www.lankhmar.demon.co.uk/ |
| |
Catch That Zeppelin! |
1975 MAR |
nv |
W-1975 NEB; 1976 HUG, ss; N-1976 LOC, nv; see iv in Walker: Speaking of Science Fiction(1978); has na, written in the 1930s & then lost, pub. in book form, The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich(1997); Pohl writes of Leiber in The SFWA Grand Masters Vol.1(1999) |
| |
Pale Brown Thing, The |
1977 JAN |
no-1/2 |
"occult thriller set in contemporary San Francisco ... (his) first novel in 7 years & first supernatural-horror novel since Conjure Wife, 35 years ago"; pub. in book form as Our Lady of Darkness(1977; W-1978 WFA; N-1978 GAN, LOC; rvw. F&SF 1978 SEP) |
| |
Pale Brown Thing, The |
1977 FEB |
no-2/2 |
has Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser omnibuses Ill Met in Lankhmar(1995), Lean Times in Lankhmar(1996), Return to Lankhmar(1997), Farewell to Lankhmar(1998); authorized series continuation, Robin Wayne Bailey: Swords Against the Shadowland(1998) |
| |
Cat Hotel, The |
1983 OCT |
ss |
1st & only story in F&SF in Gummitch the cat series; other stories in series in Pohl(ed): Star Science Fiction Stories #4(1958), & in GAL 1961 APR; has anth. Gummitch & Friends(1993), about cats; see his obit & appreciations in LOC 1992 OCT, & 1992 NOV |
