Fritz Leiber's Lean Times in Lankhmar

Fritz Leiber's Lean Times in Lankhmar PDF Author: Fritz Leiber
Publisher: White Wolf Games Studio
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Get Book

Book Description
"Follow the giant barbarian Fafhrd and his diminutive ally the Gray Mouser as they travel the mysterious, exotic world of Nehwon in search of riches and glory. From the top of Nehwon's highest mountain to the deepest catacomb of subterranean Quarmall they journey, even exploring times and worlds beyond Nehwon itself."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Knight and Knave of Swords

The Knight and Knave of Swords PDF Author: Fritz Leiber
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497616700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 371

Get Book

Book Description
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. After their adventures in Swords and Ice Magic, Fafhrd the barbarian and Gray Mouser the thief remain on Rime Isle with their loves, seeking lives of respectability and peace. Fafhrd works to regain his archery skills after losing his left hand to Odin in battle. Meanwhile, the Gray Mouser embarks on a trading expedition aboard the ship Seahawk. But their respite will soon come to an end—for on the world of Nehwon, a brother and sister plot to regain the treasures stolen from them by the pirates of Rime Isle. Soon Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, alone and together, are plagued by dreams and curses that will force them to confront the vengeful siblings, destructive temptations, sea demons, and ancient obsessions as “one of the great works of fantasy in this century” comes to its climactic end (Publishers Weekly). The highly regarded British horror author Ramsey Campbell called Fritz Leiber “the greatest living writer of supernatural horror fiction.” 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’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’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’s grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar is Leiber’s fully realized, vivid incarnation of urban decay and civilization’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.

Ill Met in Lankhmar

Ill Met in Lankhmar PDF Author: Fritz Leiber
Publisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 9781857988109
Category : Lankhmar (Imaginary place)
Languages : en
Pages : 450

Get Book

Book Description


Dark Ladies

Dark Ladies PDF Author: Fritz Leiber
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312869724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398

Get Book

Book Description
In Conjure wife, Norman Saylor learns that his wife is a sorceress. In Our Lady of Darkness, horror writer Franz Westen searches for the paranormal in San Francisco.

The Unholy Grail

The Unholy Grail PDF Author: Fritz Leiber
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 195243808X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38

Get Book

Book Description
Three things warned the wizard’s apprentice that something was wrong: first the deep-trodden prints of iron-shod hooves along the forest path—he sensed them through his boots before stooping to feel them out in the dark; next, the eerie drone of a bee unnaturally abroad by night; and finally, a faint aromatic odor of burning.

The Sinful Ones

The Sinful Ones PDF Author: Fritz Leiber
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 9781434498717
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Get Book

Book Description
Carl Mackay had an okay job, a beautiful woman, and a lot of big plains. But one day he met a beautiful, frightened girl who didn't quite belong in this world . . .

Lean Times in Lankhmar

Lean Times in Lankhmar PDF Author: Fritz Leiber
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1952438039
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 55

Get Book

Book Description
Once upon a time in Lankhmar, City of the Black Toga, in the world of Nehwon, two years after the Year of the Feathered Death, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser parted their ways.

Ship of Shadows

Ship of Shadows PDF Author: Fritz Leiber
Publisher: Orion
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Get Book

Book Description
Science fiction-noveller.

When The Sea-King's Away

When The Sea-King's Away PDF Author: Fritz Leiber
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1952438098
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Get Book

Book Description
There was an old Simorgyan legend, Fafhrd had insisted, according to which on the seventh day of the seventh moon of the seventh year of the Sevens-Cycle the king of the sea journeyed to the other end of the earth, leaving his opalescently beautiful green wives and faintly silver-scaled slim concubines free to find them lovers if they could . . . and this, Fafhrd had stridently asserted he knew by the spectral calm and other occult tokens, was the place of the sea-king’s home and the eve of the day!

The Lords of Quarmall

The Lords of Quarmall PDF Author: Fritz Leiber
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692400050
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Get Book

Book Description
FANTASTIC Editorial, January 1964: Old friends of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser may be surprised to see a byline on their story in this issue that reads-"By Fritz Leiber and Harry Fischer." "Who," you are saying, "is Harry Fischer? Some Johnny-come-lately trying to horn in on Leiber's master-characters?" Well, hardly. According to Fritz himself, Harry Fischer is the inventor of Fafhrd and the Mouser. And this is indeed a tale in itself, and one with which we shall acquaint you here and now, in the words of Leiber himself: "Harry and I met in 1930 at the University of Chicago, became fast friends, and have been friends ever since. We had in common enthusiasms for fencing, chess, bridge, drama, and fantasy literature. In our correspondence we often extemporized fragments of fantasy. One day I got a letter from Harry inventing two characters. He wrote: 'All do fear the one known as the Gray Mouser. He walks with swag-ger 'mongst the bravos, though he's but the stature of a child. His costume is all of grey. His weapons [are called] Cat's Claw and Scalpel . . . Fafhrd was full seven feet of height. His wrist . . . was thick as a hero's ankle . . . . His mouth smiled as he fingered the ponderous hilt of a huge longsword.' " From this beginnning, Fischer and Leiber utilized Fafhrd and the Mouser in their dreams and fantasy fragments. In 1937 Fischer wrote about 10,000 words of a novel to be called The Lords of Quarmall, a subterranean kingdom Leiber had invented as part of the land of Nehwon. But the fragment languished for 25 years. During this time Leiber wrote other sagas of Lankhmar, and Fischer put aside the fantasy world to become a successful businessman. A year ago, however, Leiber visited Fischer and suggested that he (Leiber) finish Quarmall. So Fritz took the original 10,000 words, plotted and wrote over twice as many more, and-lo! the result begins on page [1].

Swords Against Death

Swords Against Death PDF Author: Fritz Leiber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Get Book

Book Description