Gothic Bites 2024 4: Fritz Leiber

Fritz Leiber, When the Change Winds Blow, 1964

Fritz Leiber was a prolific and influential science fiction and fantasy author. He's probably most famous for the Lankhmar stories, about Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, two traveling swordsmen who apprentice themselves to two rival magicians, and so they're constantly doing weird shit, getting into fights, fucking rat women (yes), and trying to give it all up.

Any of that would work for this. But here's a science fiction story he wrote, where the specters of an explorer's life keep haunting him as he flies and walks through the psychoreactive geography of an alien planet. It even has a gothic church!

https://archive.org/details/worldsoffritzlei00leib/page/n5/mode/1up