Fritz Leiber

Fritz Leiber was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction who was also a poet, playwright, stage and film actor, and chess expert. With Robert E. Howard and Michael Moorcock he is counted among the fathers of sword and sorcery, a term he coined. His books include Conjure Wife, Gather, Darkness!, The Big Time, and The Wanderer, and A Specter Is Haunting Texas imagines a near-future Texas that has broken away from the United States. He died in 1992.