He also made an appearance as an actor in the 1970 cult film Equinox. He was a poet and playwright, as well as a chess expert. He was one of the first to write horror in urban settings, presaging such authors as Richard Matheson. He wrote horror, science fiction, and fantasy in equal measure, but a lot of his work blended them together. "Of course there's a switch for the trees," he informed her deflatingly, motioning the robot butler to cut his steak.Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) was one of those authors who dabbled in many genres and was a master of all of them. He was neither particularly angry nor impressed. When Jonathan got home from the city that evening she gathered her courage and told him about it. Tiny glowing letters beside it spelled trees and it was on. Then she saw it was only a small blank oblong of sheet aluminum that had fallen and that in the space it had covered was a column of six little switches. Jonathan had told her not to fool with the master control panel while he was in the city, because she would wreck anything electrical, so when the secret panel came loose under her aimlessly questing fingers and fell to the solid rock floor of the patio with a musical twing her first reaction was fear. Above the switches for the three dimensional TV but below those for the robot butler and maids. The secret panel was simply a narrow blank of aluminum-she'd thought of it as room for more switches if they ever needed any, perish the thought! - between the air-conditioning controls and the gravity controls. Mariana had been living in the big villa and hating the tall pine trees around it for what seemed like an eternity when she found the secret panel in the master control panel of the house. Jonathan told her not to touch the switches, but it was cold and lonely and isolated.
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