<div>The award-winning sword and sorcery classic that introduced Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, from a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy. First in the influential fan-favorite series, Swords and Deviltry collects four fantastical adventure stories from Fritz Leiber, the author who coined the phrase &ldquo;sword and sorcery&rdquo; and helped birth an entire genre. In &ldquo;Induction,&rdquo; in the realm of Nehwon, fate brings young prince Fafhrd and apprentice magician the Gray Mouser together to mark the beginning of a loyal and lifelong friendship. Consumed by his wicked mother&rsquo;s enchantments, Fafhrd finds freedom by pursuing the love of a beautiful actress in the Nebula and Hugo Award&ndash;nominated &ldquo;The Snow Women.&rdquo; Studying sorcery under a great wizard in a land where it is forbidden, Mouse crosses the thin line between white and black magic to avenge a great wrong in &ldquo;The Unholy Grail.&rdquo; And in the Nebula and Hugo Award&ndash;winning novella &ldquo;Ill Met in Lankhmar,&rdquo; Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser disguise themselves as beggars to infiltrate the Thieves&rsquo; Guild&mdash;only to pay a horrible price for their greed when they come face-to-face with a monstrous evil. </div>

Swords and Deviltry

<div>From a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy: In a post-apocalyptic future, a priest must fight the forces of evil in order to bring freedom to humanity. Three-hundred and sixty years after a nuclear holocaust ravaged mankind, the world is fraught with chaos and superstition. Endowed with scientific knowledge lost to the rest of humanity, Techno-priests of the Great God now rule. Jarles, originally of peasant descent, rises to become a priest of the Great God. He knows that the gospel is nothing but trickery propagated by non-believers. One day, he defies his priestly training and attempts to incite the peasants to rebel&mdash;but Jarles is not the only dissenter trying to bring down the priesthood&mdash;witchcraft is slowly gaining strength and support among the populace. Little does Jarles know his rebellion is about to throw him headlong into the middle of the greatest holy war the world has ever seen. </div>

Gather, Darkness!

<div>A collection of supernatural horror stories from the SFWA Grand Master and Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author of the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser novels. Assembled here is a selection of Mr. Leiber&#39;s best horrific tales, many of which have been virtually unobtainable for decades. From the riveting &ldquo;Spider Mansion&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Phantom Slayer&rdquo; from Weird Tales to the more recent &ldquo;Lie Still, Snow White&rdquo; and &ldquo;Black Has Its Charms&rdquo; from rare, small&#8209;press magazines, this collection provides an overview of Leiber&rsquo;s fifty&#8209;plus years as an acknowledged master of the weird tale. This edition was edited by John Pelan and Steve Savile. </div>

The Black Gondolier

<div>Stories of suspense, surprise, wit, and weirdness from Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy&mdash;as well as a must-read horror author&mdash;Fritz Leiber. Assembled from magazine submissions, fanzines, and even &ldquo;lost&rdquo; manuscripts discovered among the author&rsquo;s personal papers, Day Dark, Night Bright includes the following short stories: &ldquo;Time Fighter,&rdquo; &ldquo;Femmequin 973,&rdquo; &ldquo;Night Passage,&rdquo; &ldquo;Moon Duel,&rdquo; &ldquo;Later Than You Think,&rdquo; &ldquo;Mirror,&rdquo; &ldquo;The 64-Square MadHouse,&rdquo; &ldquo;All the Weed in the World,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Mutant&rsquo;s Brother,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Man Who Was Married to Space and Time,&rdquo; &ldquo;Thought&rdquo; &ldquo;Crystal Prison,&rdquo; &ldquo;Bullet Was His Name,&rdquo; &ldquo;Success,&rdquo; &ldquo;To Make a Roman Holiday,&rdquo; &ldquo;Bread Overhead,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Reward,&rdquo; &ldquo;Taboo,&rdquo; &ldquo;Business of Killing,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Day Dark, Night Bright.&rdquo; </div>

Day Dark, Night Bright

<div>A must-read story collection from the Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy and author of the Lankhmar series. Assembled from magazine submissions, fanzines, and even &ldquo;lost&rdquo; manuscripts discovered amongst the author&rsquo;s personal papers, Horrible Imaginings includes two Nebula Award finalists: &ldquo;Horrible Imaginings,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Answering Service,&rdquo; as well as the stories &ldquo;The Automatic Pistol,&rdquo; &ldquo;Crazy Annaoj,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Hound,&rdquo; &ldquo;Alice and the Allergy,&rdquo; &ldquo;Skinny&rsquo;s Wonderful,&rdquo; &ldquo;Scream Wolf,&rdquo; &ldquo;Mysterious Doings in the Metropolitan Museum,&rdquo; &ldquo;When Brahma Wakes,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Glove,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Girl With the Hungry Eyes,&rdquo; &ldquo;While Set Fled,&rdquo; &ldquo;Diary in the Snow,&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Ghost Light.&rdquo;</div>

Horrible Imaginings

<div>A collection of supernatural horror stories by a multiple award-winning master of the fantastic. From the author of Swords and Deviltry and many other classic novels, a recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, this is a treasure trove of horrific tales, many of which remained out of print for decades after appearing in such magazines as Unknown, Thrilling Mystery, Startling Stories, The Magazine of Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction, and the acclaimed horror specialty magazine Whispers 13&ndash;14. In addition to the title story, this collection also includes: &ldquo;Cry Witch!&rdquo; (1951), &ldquo;I&rsquo;m Looking for Jeff&rdquo; (1952), &ldquo;Ms. Found in a Maelstrom&rdquo; (1959), &ldquo;The Button Molder&rdquo; (1979), &ldquo;Dark Wings&rdquo; (1976), and &ldquo;The Enormous Bedroom&rdquo; (2001), which is original to this volume. </div>

Smoke Ghost

<div>This Hugo Award&ndash;winning disaster epic from the Science Fiction Grand Master &ldquo;ranks among [his] most ambitious works&rdquo; (SFSite). The Wanderer inspires feelings of pure terror in the hearts of the five billion human beings inhabiting Planet Earth. The presence of an alien planet causes increasingly severe tragedies and chaos. However, one man stands apart from the mass of frightened humanity. For him, the legendary Wanderer is a mere tale of bizarre alien domination and human submission. His conception of the Wanderer bleeds into unrequited love for the mysterious &ldquo;she&rdquo; who owns him.</div>

The Wanderer

<div>From a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Everything changes with the arrival of mysterious, green cat. In a futuristic human society based on our own, the regimented, regulated, and bureaucratized lifestyle led by the misanthropic Phil Gish leaves him feeling vaguely dissatisfied and emotionally cut off from other people. When a green cat appears in his room, he is surprised to find that it makes him feel happier and more alive than he has ever felt. Phil decides to call the cat Lucky, hoping his life will take a turn for the better. But lucky is in high demand, and Phil quickly realizes that he&rsquo;s going to have to go up against the mob, the FBI, some nude aliens, and a gorgeous mystery woman if he&rsquo;s to keep him. When Lucky seems to vanish into thin air, Phil will do anything to get him back, even if it means challenging the very powers that rule his world. </div>

The Green Millennium

<div>&ldquo;Robin has splendidly captured the quintessential spirit of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Somewhere in Lankhmar, Fritz is smiling&rdquo; (Dennis L. McKiernan, national bestselling author). Lankhmar, an ancient and decadent city of magic, where witches and sorcerers scheme, where gods and ghosts walk the streets and shadow-haunted alleys, where violence and death dance together like lovers in the darkness. Lankhmar&ndash;a city of plague! Years ago, two rogues bound together by friendship and a shared destiny neither understood met in Lankhmar. Living by their swords, their wits and their daring, they sought adventure and love. Adventure they found, but love&ndash;they lost. In despair, they left the city, vowing never to return. Yet vows are made to be broken. Once again, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are drawn back to Lankhmar and quickly ensnared in its wizard-games as one jealous mage turns on his rivals and unleashes a black force not even he can control, a power that threatens the city itself. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, two of the greatest and most beloved characters in fantasy literature, return in this novel-length adventure by Nebula Award nominated author Robin Wayne Bailey. Swords Against the Shadowland, authorized by series creator Fritz Leiber, is a direct sequel to Leiber&rsquo;s famous story, &ldquo;Ill-Met in Lankhmar!&rdquo; Named one of the six best fantasy novels of 1998 by the Science Fiction Chronicle. </div>

Swords Against the Shadowland

<div>Join the renowned barbarian and thief in this sword-and-sorcery adventure from a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy. While The Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Fritz Leiber&rsquo;s fantastic but thoroughly flawed antiheroes, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, adventured and stumbled deep within the caves of Inner Earth as well. They wondered and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon, and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwon&rsquo;s grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar, is Leiber&rsquo;s fully realized, vivid incarnation of urban decay and civilization&rsquo;s corroding effect on the human psyche. Fafhrd and Mouse are not innocents; their world is no land of honor and righteousness. It is a world of human complexities and violent action, of discovery and mystery, of swords and sorcery. Swords Against Death, the second volume in the Lankhmar series, finds Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser beginning their real journey. Their hearts altered by the loss of first true love, they embark on a long and winding path of drunken debauchery and womanizing until crossing paths with two cross wizards, Sheelba of the Eyeless Face and Ningauble of the Seven Eyes. A most violent of clashes ensues. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser descend into Thieves House to discover the exacting skill of the united backstabbing Thieves of Lankhmar and their rival guild, the Slayer&rsquo;s Brotherhood, the city&rsquo;s unionized killers. They would wander along the Bleak Shore to a howling tower to show how fear is not the product of murder but the cause. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser must resume their plundering and drunken debauchery until once again darkness had taken the balance for its favor and then a change would come. These are just a few of the encounters our swindling swordsmen will willingly endure in ridding their hearts of their first true loves. But did they know it would make them indentured swordsman servants to their former foes, the formidable Sheelba and Ningauble? </div>

Swords Against Death

<div>Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser take to the sea in the third installment of this seminal sword and sorcery series that &ldquo;has lost none of its luminous magic&rdquo; (San Francisco Chronicle). Swords in the Mist, book three in the Lankhmar series, thrusts our indentured, sword-swinging servants into the question of hate, its power, and its purpose. Times are lean in Lankhmar, illuminating the link between money and love. Luckily, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser don&rsquo;t always believe in love. When Lankhmar gets too gritty, our travelers take to their other, less harsh mistress, the sea. But the sea can play tricks on men, and so can the sea king. He can break a man, or worse yet, curse him. But when he is away, it&rsquo;s all play for the formidable swordsmen and the Triple Goddess . . . and two luscious sea queens. But luck may not always be there, as they discover on the way to see Ningauble, their wizard employer. After a long journey in defense of their control over their own fates, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser find themselves pawns in a life-and-death chess game, all of Lankhmar being the pieces. How many pawns will be left on the board before someone wins? Before The Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Leiber&rsquo;s fantastic but thoroughly flawed antiheroes, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, adventured deep within the caves of Inner Earth, albeit a different one. They wondered and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwon&rsquo;s grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar is Leiber&rsquo;s fully realized, vivid incarnation of urban decay and civilization&rsquo;s corroding effect on the human psyche. Drawing on themes from Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P. Lovecraft, master manipulator Fritz Leiber is a worldwide legend within the fantasy genre and actually coined the term Sword and Sorcery that describes the subgenre he helped create. </div>

Swords in the Mist

<div>A war rages beyond space and time in this Hugo Award&ndash;winning &ldquo;extraordinary tour de force&rdquo; from the acclaimed Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy (A Reader&rsquo;s Guide to Science Fiction). Fritz Leiber (1910&ndash;1992) may be best known as a fantasy writer, but he published widely and successfully in the horror and science fiction fields. One of his major SF creations is the Change War, a series of stories and short novels about rival time-traveling forces locked in a bitter, ages-long struggle for control of the human universe where battles alter history and then change it again until there is no certainty about what might once have happened. The most notable work of the series is the Hugo Award&ndash;winning novel The Big Time, in which doctors, entertainers, and wounded soldiers find themselves treacherously trapped with an activated atomic bomb inside the Place, a room existing outside of space-time. Leiber creates a tense, claustrophobic SF mystery, and a brilliant, unique locked-room whodunit. In addition to the Hugo, Nebula, Derleth, Lovecraft, and World Fantasy Awards, Fritz Leiber received the Grand Master of Fantasy (Gandalf) Award, the Life Achievement Lovecraft Award, and the Grand Master Nebula Award.</div>

The Big Time

<div>A professor discourages his wife&rsquo;s witchcraft to disastrous ends in this Hugo Award&ndash;winning novel&mdash;that inspired three films&mdash;by the Grand Master of Fantasy. Ethnology professor Norman Saylor is shocked to discover that his wife, Tansy, has been putting his research on &ldquo;Conjure Magic&rdquo; into practice. She only wants to protect him from the other spell-casting faculty wives who would stop at nothing to advance their husbands&rsquo; careers. But Norman, as a man of science, demands she put an end to it. And when Tansy&rsquo;s last charm is burned . . . Norman&rsquo;s life starts falling apart. First, Norman has a disastrous run-in with a former prot&eacute;g&eacute;. Then his student secretary accuses him of seducing her. He&rsquo;s even passed over for a promotion that had been certain. Plus he&rsquo;s become exceedingly accident prone: from shaving to carpet tacks to letter openers, hazards are suddenly everywhere. At his wit&rsquo;s end, he begins to worry that a dark presence is exploiting his fear of trucks. But the worst is yet to come&mdash;when Tansy takes his curse upon herself. Now, in order to save his wife, Norman must overcome his disbelief and embrace the dark magic he disdains. Winner of the 1944 Retrospective Hugo Award, Conjure Wife is widely celebrated as a modern classic of horror-fantasy and has been adapted for film three times: Burn, Witch Burn (1962), Weird Woman (1944), and Witch&rsquo;s Brew (1980). </div>

Conjure Wife

<div>The final book in the seminal sword and sorcery series featuring Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser from the Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy. The highly regarded British horror author Ramsey Campbell called Fritz Leiber &ldquo;the greatest living writer of supernatural horror fiction.&rdquo; Drawing many of his own themes from the works of Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P. Lovecraft, master manipulator Fritz Leiber is a worldwide legend within the fantasy genre, actually having coined the term sword and sorcery that would describe the subgenre he would more than help create. While The Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Leiber&rsquo;s fantastic but thoroughly flawed antiheroes, Fafhrd and Grey Mouser, adventured and stumbled deep within the caves of Inner Earth as well, albeit a different one than Tolkien&rsquo;s. They wondered and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwon&rsquo;s grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar is Leiber&rsquo;s fully realized, vivid incarnation of urban decay and civilization&rsquo;s corroding effect on the human psyche. Fafhrd and Mouse are not innocents; their world is no land of honor and righteousness. It is a world of human complexities and violent action, of discovery and mystery, of swords and sorcery. </div>

The Knight and Knave of Swords

<div>A horror author is drawn into a mysterious curse in this World Fantasy Award&ndash;winning novel from the author of the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series. Fritz Leiber may be best known as a fantasy writer, but he published widely and successfully in the horror and science fiction fields. His fiction won the Hugo, Nebula, Derleth, Gandalf, Lovecraft, and World Fantasy Awards, and he was honored with the Life Achievement Lovecraft Award and the Grand Master Nebula Award. One of his best novels is the classic dark fantasy Our Lady of Darkness, winner of the 1978 World Fantasy Award. Our Lady of Darkness introduces San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen. While studying his beloved city through binoculars from his apartment window, he is astonished to see a mysterious figure waving at him from a hilltop two miles away. He walks to Corona Heights and looks back at his building to discover the figure waving at him from his apartment window&mdash;and to find himself caught in a century-spanning curse that may have destroyed Clark Ashton Smith and Jack London. </div>

Our Lady of Darkness

<div>Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser search for treasure in book four of the genre-defining Sword and Sorcery series from the Grand Master of Science Fiction. Fafhrd and Mouse are not innocents; their world is no land of honor and righteousness. It is a world of human complexities and violent action, of discovery and mystery, of swords and sorcery. With Swords Against Wizardry, ,the story unfolds behind the curtain in the Witch&rsquo;s Tent. Fafhrd and Gray Mouser are there to consult a sorceress who holds the secret to their escape, but when would they ever need to escape? Would they need this knowledge when they journey to Stardock? Where is there to escape up there? No doubt the icy seduction of &ldquo;the cruel one,&rdquo; with her greed for both gore and graciousness, could offer them several ways out. Their luck has been good so far; one way out should work. Their luck continues as thieves. They are the best thieves in Lankhmar until better positions arise: the Lords of Quarmall. Gray Mouser and Fafhrd steal a kingdom within a hill and declare themselves lords. Before The Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Leiber&rsquo;s fantastic but thoroughly flawed antiheroes, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, adventured deep within the caves of Inner Earth, albeit a different one. They wondered and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwon&rsquo;s grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar is Leiber&rsquo;s fully realized, vivid incarnation of urban decay and civilization&rsquo;s corroding effect on the human psyche. Drawing on themes from Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P. Lovecraft, master manipulator Fritz Leiber is a worldwide legend within the fantasy genre and actually coined the term Sword and Sorcery that describes the subgenre he helped create. </div>

Swords Against Wizardry

<div>Stories of sword and sorcery by a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy! In Swords and Ice Magic, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser discover how the sadness of the Executioner creates a macabre dance from the point of view of the choreographer. Beauties and beasts explain the dual nature of all life&rsquo;s creatures. Trapped in the Shadowland, our dogmatic duo finds the dualities of swords and needles, maps and territories, girls and demons, mortals and gods, learning of the mischievous vanity of the gods. Lost at sea, Gray Mouser becomes a natural philosopher, drifting, captive of the Great Equatorial Current. He wonders about fire and ice, about women and men, until they arrive at Rime Isle, a tragic comedy of a place, wandering gods and restless mortals, a comedy with puppets and puppet masters. Before The Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Leiber&rsquo;s fantastic but thoroughly flawed antiheroes, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, adventured deep within the caves of Inner Earth, albeit a different one. They wondered and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwon&rsquo;s grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar is Leiber&rsquo;s fully realized, vivid incarnation of urban decay and civilization&rsquo;s corroding effect on the human psyche.</div>

Swords and Ice Magic

<div>From the Grand Master of Science Fiction, the fifth book in a series that stands as &ldquo;one of the great works of fantasy in this century&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). The Swords of Lankhmar finds the city characteristically plagued by rats. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are in the employ of Glipkerio, the overlord, to guard a grain ship on its journey. Along the way, the rats onboard stage a rebellion and threaten to take the ship until a two-headed sea monster saves the day. If only there were two-headed sea monsters everywhere, Lankhmar would be safe, too. Alas, upon returning to the city, the two discover that Lankhmar is controlled by rats. It is a city known for its thieves and swine, but even the city&rsquo;s muddiest bottom feeders have never seen pillaging and plundering like this. And only the sorcerers Sheelba of the Eyeless Face and Ningauble of the Seven Eyes can scare this scourge. Mouser must shrink into the rat&rsquo;s world and Fafhrd must unleash the feared feline War Cats. Then the fun really begins. Before The Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Leiber&rsquo;s fantastic but thoroughly flawed antiheroes, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, adventured deep within the caves of Inner Earth, albeit a different one. They wondered and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwon&rsquo;s grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar is Leiber&rsquo;s fully realized, vivid incarnation of urban decay and civilization&rsquo;s corroding effect on the human psyche. Drawing on themes from Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P. Lovecraft, master manipulator Fritz Leiber is a worldwide legend within the fantasy genre and actually coined the term Sword and Sorcery that describes the subgenre he helped create. </div>

The Swords of Lankhmar

<div>Fritz Leiber&rsquo;s iconic sword-and-sorcery adventurers Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser share the pages with drunkard-turned-unlikely-hero Spar in this pairing of award-winning novellas Gentleman barbarian Fafhrd, son of a northern Snow Witch, flees his family&rsquo;s homeland to join a foreign lover and escape his mother&rsquo;s control. Cynical thief the Gray Mouser has a mysterious past, but no one doubts his deadly skill at swordsmanship. When the two meet, each recognizes a kindred spirit in the other. No gem dealer&rsquo;s stock is safe and no gambler will go unfleeced while Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser live&mdash;but the deadly chain of events that forges their adventurous partnership means they are truly ill met in Lankhmar. Spar has no memory of his early life, no hope for a better future, no concerns other than how to obtain his next drink. A good day is one when he can avoid the abuse of his barkeep boss aboard the Windrush. But when a mysterious talking cat starts putting ideas into Spar&rsquo;s head, things begin to change. There&rsquo;s a larger universe out there than Spar has ever dreamed of. His destiny beckons&mdash;if only he can escape the ship of shadows.</div>

Ill Met in Lankhmar and Ship of Shadows

<div>The Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning series of swords and sorcery, featuring two unorthodox heroes, from a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Many decades before George R. R. Martin&rsquo;s Game of Thrones, Grand Master Fritz Leiber ruled the sword-and-sorcery universe. These three short story collections chronicle the unconventional adventures of Leiber&rsquo;s endearing antiheroes: barbarian Fafhrd and former wizard&rsquo;s apprentice, the Gray Mouser. Swords and Deviltry: Fafhrd, a handsome barbarian of the Steppes, is seduced by a beautiful prostitute and her equally intoxicating city, while the Gray Mouser, a slum rat wizard-in-training, is tempted by the dark arts. The two men meet on a night of multiple thieveries and an enduring partnership is born. Swords Against Death: Rogue swordsmen and devoted companions Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser pursue ill-gotten fortunes within the confines of Lankhmar. They cross paths with two wizards, Sheelba of the Eyeless Face and Ningauble of the Seven Eyes, and a most violent clash ensues. Eventually, following further adventures, the two antiheroes end up as indentured swordsman servants to their former foes. Swords in the Mist: A cloud of concentrated hatred and lean times in Lankhmar compels Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser to temporarily depart the most corrupt metropolis in all of Nehwon as they seek adventure in the realm of the Sea-King&mdash;and on a different world entirely. This must-read collection of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser short stories features multiple Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;nominated tales, and includes the acclaimed novella Ill Met in Lankhmar.</div>

The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Volume One

<div>The Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning series of sword and sorcery&mdash;featuring two unorthodox heroes&mdash;from a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Long before George R. R. Martin&rsquo;s Game of Thrones became a worldwide phenomenon, Fritz Leiber ruled the literary universe of sword and sorcery. This novel and two short story collections chronicle the adventures of Leiber&rsquo;s endearing and groundbreaking antiheroes: the barbarian Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, a former wizard&rsquo;s apprentice&mdash;in the series hailed as &ldquo;one of the great works of fantasy in this century&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). This is a must-read collection of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser short stories, featuring the Hugo Award&ndash;nominated novellas &ldquo;Scylla&rsquo;s Daughter&rdquo; and &ldquo;Stardock.&rdquo; Swords Against Wizardry: Bold Fafhrd and the sly Gray Mouser find adventure wherever they tread quick and lightly, whether it be in consulting a witch for advice, climbing Nehwon&rsquo;s highest peak in search of riches, discovering that they may not actually be the greatest thieves in Lankhmar, or working both sides of a royal battle for the throne of Quarmall. The Swords of Lankhmar: With a plague of rats teeming in Lankhmar, Fafhrd and the Mouser are hired by the city to guard a shipment of grain overseas. But when the duo returns, they discover the sentient vermin have taken over Lankhmar for themselves! And now it&rsquo;s up to the barbarian and the thief to build a better rat trap. Swords and Ice Magic: Fafhrd and Gray Mouser make their way by sword and stealth as they face death in many forms, earn the ire of gods whose names they rarely even speak in vain anymore, lazily drift on the Great Equatorial Current, and venture far into the icy wastes of the Rime Isle to confront a pair of deities and a pillaging fleet in this World Fantasy Award nominee. </div>

The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Volume Two

<div>&ldquo;An excellent collection&rdquo; of vampire stories, from authors such as Harlan Ellison, Dan Simmons, Gahan Wilson, Tanith Lee, and Fritz Leiber (Publishers Weekly). Renowned editor Ellen Datlow has gathered seventeen variations on vampirism ranging from classically Gothic to postmodern satire, from horrific to erotic. These stories reflect the evolution of vampire literature from Bram Stoker to Anne Rice and beyond, resulting in a deeper exploration of their inner lives. Expanding the concept of vampirism to include the draining of a person&rsquo;s will or life force, Datlow&rsquo;s collection transcends the traditional &ldquo;black capes and teeth marks on the neck&rdquo; to reinvent an eternally fascinating subgenre of horror. In Harlan Ellison&rsquo;s &ldquo;Try a Dull Knife,&rdquo; an empath stumbles bleeding into a nightclub, on the run from emotional vampires. A Broadway actress steals the emotions of her fellow performers in &ldquo;. . . To Feel Another&rsquo;s Woe&rdquo; by Chet Williamson. And in &ldquo;The Sea Was Wet as Wet Could Be,&rdquo; Gahan Wilson offers his own surreal twist on Lewis Carroll&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Walrus and the Carpenter,&rdquo; as two strangers on a beach lure intoxicated picnickers to a different kind of picnic . . . Blood Is Not Enough includes contributions by Dan Simmons, Gahan Wilson, Garry Kilworth, Harlan Ellison, Scott Baker, Leonid Andreyev, Harvey Jacobs, S. N. Dyer, Edward Bryant, Fritz Leiber, Tanith Lee, Susan Casper, Steve Rasnic Tem, Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann, Chet Williamson, Joe Haldeman, and Pat Cadigan. </div>

Blood Is Not Enough

<div>A post-apocalyptic novel set in the nuclear wastelands of America from the Grand Master of Science Fiction and author of the Lankhmar series. Ray is armed and dangerous, suspicious of everyone he comes across in the decimated Deathlands and willing to fight to the death as he scavenges for food and weapons. Into his life comes Alice, just as wary but whose intentions are not violent. The two drifters forge an uneasy truce, but their bloodlust will be tested when an old man&mdash;a former homicidal maniac&mdash;offers them something almost too painful to contemplate: hope. &ldquo;A dark, edgy story, Leiber deconstructs the madness of such aggression in turns overt and subtle. . . . The character study of a killer paranoid everyone is out to kill him . . . A hard-edged, slightly satirical look at mankind&rsquo;s propensity toward murder in the context of free choice.&rdquo; &mdash;Speculiction &ldquo;Vividly describes a horrifying possible future America where nuclear war has ravaged the land and the human brain.&rdquo; &mdash;Fantasy Literature</div>

Fritz Leiber

Books By Fritz Leiber (23 Books)