Seller's note:
Leiber, Fritz: WEIRD AND WONDERFUL. Original typed manuscript, seven pages, double-spaced. Title and byline in Leiber’s hand, along with several minor corrections and white-outs. Minor damp-staining (chiefly confined to the lower part of the first page and the bottom edge, resulting in some light rippling), some overall light use, but near very good condition.
This was published in the program book for the Fourth World Fantasy Convention, held in 1978 in Fort Worth, Texas. Leiber was guest of honor. Although the theme of the convention was the life and work of Robert E. Howard, this essay is about H.P. Lovecraft and his influence on subsequent writers of weird fiction. Leiber writes with fond nostalgia about his wife Jonquil and their correspondence with HPL during the last months of the elder writer’s battle with cancer. It’s surprising that Szumskyj and Joshi chose not to include this essay in their book FRITZ LEIBER AND H.P. LOVECRAFT: WRITERS OF THE DARK, assuming they were not ignorant of its existence.
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