Leigh Brackett wrote science fiction and fantasy at a time when both fields were dominated by male writers. She developed her own, unique style influenced by the adventure stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard. Leigh Brackett didn’t stop there: she wrote a hard-boiled crime novel, NO GOOD FROM A CORPSE, that caught the eye of director Howard Hawks. Hawks hired Brackett to work with William Faulkner (yes, THAT William Faulkner, the Nobel Prize winner) on the screenplay of Raymond Chandler’s THE BIG SLEEP. Decades later, Brackett wrote the screenplay to another Chandler masterpiece, THE LONG GOODBYE. Oh, and weeks before her death, Brackett turned in the first draft of the screenplay for THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. Clearly, Leigh Brackett was a major talent. But her early work has been too long inaccessible and forgotten.

Until now.

The Haffner Press is reprinting Leigh Brackett’s early stories. A couple years ago, they published the first volume of stories, MARTIAN QUEST. Now there’s LORELEI OF THE RED MIST. Hours of magic and thrills await you!