You're All Alone/The Liquid Man

by Fritz Leiber, Bernard Gilford

Armchair fiction presents the third in a new line of science fiction double novels! The first novel is Fritz Leiber's "You're All Alone." What really lurks in the shadows of our own minds? Don't get too nosy, lest you discover the most terrifying secret ever hidden from mankind. Bernard C. Gilford's "The Liquid Man" is a good old fashioned horror story about a mad scientist who mysteriously transforms himself into a shambling liquid monstrosity--a fiend with a penchant for snapping the necks of its victims. Two great novels from the golden age of horror and science fiction.

Genres: Science Fiction

218 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 15, 2011

About the author

Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. was one of the more interesting of the young writers who came into HP Lovecraft's orbit, and some of his best early short fiction is horror rather than sf or fantasy. He found his mature voice early in the first of the sword-and-sorcery adventures featuring the large sensitive barbarian Fafhrd and the small street-smart-ish Gray Mouser; he returned to this series at various points in his career, using it sometimes for farce and sometimes for gloomy mood pieces--The Swords of Lankhmar is perhaps the best single volume of their adventures. Leiber's science fiction includes the planet-smashing The Wanderer in which a large cast mostly survive flood, fire, and the sexual attentions of feline aliens, and the satirical A Spectre is Haunting Texas in which a gangling, exo-skeleton-clad actor from the Moon leads a revolution and finds his true love. Leiber's late short fiction, and the fine horror novel Our Lady of Darkness, combine autobiographical issues like his struggle with depression and alcoholism with meditations on the emotional content of the fantastic genres. Leiber's capacity for endless self-reinvention and productive self-examination kept him, until his death, one of the most modern of his sf generation.

Used These Alternate Names: Maurice Breçon, Fric Lajber, Fritz Leiber, Jr., Fritz R. Leiber, Fritz Leiber Jun., Фриц Лейбер, F. Lieber, フリッツ・ライバー

Reviews

[Kipp Poe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun stories great design

I really enjoyed both the stories and the dedication to the putting the book together providing the original covers and artwork. I also like the biography of the writers