![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I haven’t seen the latter-day spoof version, despite the presence of Teri Garr as female lead. (Saylor pops up again in “Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-TAH-Tee,” a very funny and otherwise unrelated fantasy whose title didn’t register with me, in its potential reading as a mildly randy joke, for decades.) Leiber was perhaps the greatest male pro-feminist in fantasy, particularly in 1943, when CONJURE was published in one issue of UNKNOWN WORLDS, the great fantasy magazine, and the novel was ineptly, loosely filmed as WEIRD WOMAN not long after and rather more faithfully and competently (if not with the same power as the novel) as NIGHT OF THE EAGLE in Britain (with a script by Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson and George Baxt) imported as BURN, WITCH, BURN! despite no relevance to the A. ![]() Well, that’s the premise of CONJURE WIFE…that essentially all women have to be witches, for self-preservation and protection of those in their lives, including such condescending husbands as Norman Saylor…who loses the ‘tude as he Learns Better. ![]()
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