Published in Galaxy Science Fiction in 1963, this is a supernatural thriller about a theater troupe, narrated by the costume girl. The author Fritz Lieber is one of the fathers of “sword and sorcery” fantasy, having in fact coined the term.
Fritz Leiber, C.M. Kornbluth, Darrell Schweitzer, Robert Sheckley, Fredric Brown, Alfred Bester, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Randall Garrett, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Robert Silverberg, Murray Leinster, Tom Purdom, Philip K. Dick, Jerry Sohl, Pamela Rentz, Henry Kuttner, Frank Belknap Long, Poul Anderson, Mack Reynolds, James Blish, Ben Bova, Myron R. Lewis & Marion Zimmer Bradley
Fritz Leiber, C.M. Kornbluth, Dave Creek, Philip K. Dick, George H. Scithers, E.C. Tubb, Colin Harvey, Sydney J. Bounds, John Glasby, Robert Silverberg, Michael McCarty, Mark McLaughlin, John Russell Fearn, Gerald Warfield, Jerry Sohl, George S. Walker, Charles V. De Vet, Frank Belknap Long, John Gregory Betancourt, J. F. Bone, Costi Gurgu, Murray Leinster, Charles L. Fontenay, Robert F. Young & Lester del Rey
H.G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, Edwin A. Abbott, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, George MacDonald, Henry Rider Haggard, William Hope Hodgson, Edward Bellamy, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Francis Bacon, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Margaret Cavendish, Jonathan Swift, William Morris, Samuel Butler, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, James Fenimore Cooper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ayn Rand, Owen Gregory, Hugh Benson, Fred M. White, Ignatius Donnelly, Ernest Bramah, Milo Hastings, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Robert Cromie, E. M. Forster, Anthony Trollope, Richard Stockham, Irving E. Cox, Cleveland Moffett, Richard Jefferies, Percy Greg, David Lindsay, Edward Everett Hale, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Abraham Merritt, Edgar Wallace, H. Beam Piper, Garrett P. Serviss, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Philip K. Dick, E. E. Smith, Murray Leinster, Fritz Leiber, Andre Norton, Lester del Rey, August Derleth, Frederik Pohl, Kurt Vonnegut, William Dean Howells, Philip Francis Nowlan, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, George Griffith, Edwin Lester Arnold, John Jacob Astor & Gustavus W. Pope
Robert E. Howard, Philip K. Dick, James Blish, H. P. Lovecraft, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Alan Edward Nourse, Clifford D. Simak, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Frederik Pohl, August Derleth, Lester del Rey, Fritz Leiber, Carl Jacobi, Philip José Farmer, Warren Lapine, Ada Milenkovic Brown, B. W. Clough, F. Marion Crawford, Lillian Csernica, William R. Eakin, Michael M. Jones, Paul Kincaid, Shariann Lewitt, Edward J. McFadden III, William F. Nolan, Chuck Rothman, Clark Ashton Smith, Jean-Louis Trudel, Jamie Wild, David Niall Wilson & Robert F. Young
Gene Wolfe, Tanith Lee, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Thomas Burnett Swann, Clive Jackson, Paul Di Filippo, Fritz Leiber, Robert E. Howard, Lawrence Watt-Evans, John Gregory Betancourt, Clark Ashton Smith, Lin Carter, E. Hoffmann Price, Darrell Schwetizer, Brian Stableford, Achmed Abdullah & Brian McNaughton
Dan Simmons, Gahan Wilson, Garry Kilworth, Harlan Ellison, Scott Baker, Leonid Andreyev, Harvey Jacobs, S.N. Dyer, Edward Bryant, Fritz Leiber, Tanith Lee, Susan Casper, Steve Rasnic Tem, Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann, Chet Williamson, Joe Haldeman & Pat Cadigan
H.G. Wells, Percy Greg, Jules Verne, David Lindsay, Edward Everett Hale, H. Beam Piper, Philip K. Dick, E. E. Smith, Murray Leinster, Fritz Leiber, Richard Stockham, Irving E. Cox, Frederik Pohl, Edwin Lester Arnold, John Jacob Astor & Gustavus W. Pope
Fritz Leiber, C. M. Kornbluth, Phyllis Sterling-Smith, Ray Bradbury, Kris Neville, Lester del Rey, Keith Laumer, Jim Harmon, Henry Slesar, Stanley Lee, Sydney van Scyoc & Howard Browne
Robert E. Howard, C. L. Moore, Seabury Quinn, Fritz Leiber, Edmond Hamilton, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Fitz-James O’Brien, H. P. Lovecraft, Henry Kuttner, W. C. Morrow, Dorothy Quick, William Hope Hodgson, Don Peterson, Clark Ashton Smith, Victoria Glad, August Derleth, Arthur B. Waltermire, Nelson S. Bond, Benjamin Ferris, Frank Owen, G.G. Pendarves & Warren Lapine
Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Andre Norton, Harry Harrison, Keith Laumer, Frank Herbert, H. Beam Piper, Marion Zimmer Bradley & Fritz Leiber
Fritz Leiber, Philip K. Dick, Stanley R. Lee, Edgar Pangborn, R. A. Lafferty, Clifford D. Simak, James Stamers, Jim Harmon, C. M. Kornbluth, Ron Goulart, Wallace West, Algis Budrys, Con Blomberg, F. L. Wallace, Tom Purdom, Bill Doede, Warren Lapine, George O Smith, Richard Sabia, Walter M. Miller Jr, Laurence Janifer, Herbert D. Kastle, Jack Sharkey, Richard R. Smith & Sydney van Scyoc
Edgar Pangborn, Alan E. Nourse, Ray Bradbury, Murray Leinster, Lester del Rey, Fritz Leiber, Keith Laumer, Warren Lapine, Daniel F. Galouye, Jim Harmon, Patrick Fahy, Marshall King, Frank M. Robinson, L. J. Stecher, Jr., James Stamers, Evelyn E. Smith, J. F. Bone, Isaac Asimov, Jack Sharkey, F. L. Wallace, Frederik Pohl, William Morrison, Katherine MacLean, Milton Lesser, Charles Vincent De Vet & H. L. Gold
H.G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, Edwin A. Abbott, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, George MacDonald, Henry Rider Haggard, William Hope Hodgson, Edward Bellamy, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Francis Bacon, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Margaret Cavendish, Jonathan Swift, William Morris, Samuel Butler, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, James Fenimore Cooper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ayn Rand, Owen Gregory, Hugh Benson, Fred M. White, Ignatius Donnelly, Ernest Bramah, Milo Hastings, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Robert Cromie, E. M. Forster, Anthony Trollope, Richard Stockham, Irving E. Cox, Cleveland Moffett, Richard Jefferies, Percy Greg, David Lindsay, Edward Everett Hale, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Abraham Merritt, Edgar Wallace, H. Beam Piper, Garrett P. Serviss, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Philip K. Dick, E. E. Smith, Murray Leinster, Fritz Leiber, Andre Norton, Lester del Rey, August Derleth, Frederik Pohl, Kurt Vonnegut, William Dean Howells, Philip Francis Nowlan, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, George Griffith, Edwin Lester Arnold, John Jacob Astor & Gustavus W. Pope