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Shambleau. " Shambleau " is a short story by American science fiction and fantasy writer C. L. Moore. Though it was her first professional sale, it is her most famous story. It first appeared in the November 1933 issue of Weird Tales and has been reprinted numerous times.
Synopsis: "Shambleau" Read by the author C. L. Moore: Side A of LP. Northwest Smith rescues a brown-skinned woman pursued by a mob. He has her get behind him and interrogates the mob. They call her "Shambleau" and want to kill her. He protects her, saying that she is his.
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Jan 26, 2021 · Summary. Catherine Lucille Moore (1911–1987), who wrote under the pen name C. L. Moore, was one of the earliest female science-fiction writers, working mostly in pulp magazines such as Astounding Science Fiction and Weird Tales.
Mar 2, 2016 · “Shambleau”, written by female SF writer C. L. Moore, is about the story of Northwest Smith saving a human-like creature known as a Shambleau from a local lynch mob. Unaware of their reasoning behind chasing the feminine creature, Smith intervenes, claiming that the Shambleau belongs to him.
1933 debütierte C.L. Moore mit der Story Shambleu in WEIRD TALES. Für das Magazin war die Erzählung ein literarischer Quantensprung in Sachen Qualität. (C.L. Moore)
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Oct 15, 2021 · Several times in the story Smith leaves and returns to Shambleau, each time the stakes are higher and his peril more imminent. His first trip back culminates in a drunken pass on an eager Shambleau – whom Smith recoils from in sudden horror after an initially intense attraction.
C.L. Moore, the pen name for Catherine Lucille Moore, is most lauded for her invention of the female warrior heroine of sword and sorcery fantasy, Jirel of Joiry, a figure everyone from Xena to Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Princess Laia have to thank.