Our Lady of Darkness introduces San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen. While studying his beloved city through binoculars from his apartment window, he is astonished to see a mysterious figure waving at him from a hilltop two miles away. He walks to Corona Heights and looks back at his building, to discover the figure waving at him from his apartment window - and to find himself caught in a century-spanning curse that may have destroyed Clark Ashton Smith and Jack London. Winner of the World Fantasy Award for best novel, 1978