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Our Lady of Darkness
- Narrated by: Charles Busch
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 02-14-12
- Language: English
- Publisher: Audible Studios
Regular price: $19.60
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Publisher's Summary
In this superb novel, originally published in 1977, Fritz Leiber explores the concept of "paramentals". Leiber makes his definitive statement on alienation within the urban environment and the capacity of concrete, steel, and glass to suck up miseries and spew forth monsters.
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- Kindle Customer
- 06-20-12
Outstanding!
My favorite novel by my favorite writer, "Our Lady of Darkness" by Fritz Leiber has held up for me with repeated readings, and I was delighted to finally hear this book performed on audio. Charles Busch did an outstanding job, reading the story with intelligence and verve, skillfully bringing the various characters to life with a solid array of voices. Bravo!
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- Joe Krippel
- 09-28-16
terrible narrator
story good; narrator terrible. irritating voice, frequently read sentences incorrectly with pauses in the wrong place.
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- Robert
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- 12-06-12
I don't really know what to think!
This novel was...odd. I liked some of the concepts in it, and appreciated the nods to M.R. James and H.P. Lovecraft. However, I found it a bit confusing and silly at times. I really enjoyed Conjure Wife and was looking forward to hearing Our Lady of Darkness. I must say I was a bit disappointed! There were very good scenes and imagery however, and the ending was right out of the M.R. James story "Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad!". The narration by Charles Busch was great at times and downright awful at others. Meh.
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- Mona
- New York, NY, United States
- 06-22-13
Dreadful---Badly Written Story, Awful Narrator
What disappointed you about Our Lady of Darkness?
Just about everything.
Has Our Lady of Darkness turned you off from other books in this genre?
No...this was an exceptionally bad book
Would you be willing to try another one of Charles Busch’s performances?
Absolutely not. His flamboyant, pretentious, hystrionic reading distracted from the story and didn't enhance it at all.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Boredom and annoyance.
Any additional comments?
This was recommended on a prominent science fiction podcast. There's no accounting for taste.
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- Bodie
- 06-21-12
Peerless.
Fritz was one of the great writers of the 20th Century, and I am delighted to see that his two classic novels Conjure Wife and Our Lady of Darkness are now on Audible.
Our Lady of Darkness (I feel) is Fritz's masterwork, the semi autobiographical thread of a man emerging from alcoholism and seeing the world perhaps a little too clearly is powerful and moving. The detail of the converted hotel, and San Francisco itself bring a real sense of wonder and menace to the book and all this is delivered in Leiber's wondrous prose.
The characters we meet and get to know are a real pleasure, they are interesting people and their conversations, which weave together the back story, are just fascinating.
Riding over all this is the supernatural element, Lovecraftian paramental entities which haunt Franz and San Francisco.
The finale when it arrives is brilliantly delivered and the book and leaves one very happy to have been part of the journey.
Listened to with Conjure Wife they present wonderful bookends to an amazing career (well 40 years of it), where his more well known fantasy work has perhaps over shadowed his brilliant urban horror stories (such as Smoke Ghost) which have rarely been matched.
Fritz of course carried on to many more stories after this, often with San Francisco at it's hub, culminating in the creepy and strange 'Horrible Imaginings'.
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