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"Ill Met in Lankhmar" is a sword and sorcery novella by American writer Fritz Leiber, recounting the meeting and teaming-up of his adventurous duo, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.įirst published in 1970 in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, it is a prequel, as Leiber had by that time been chronicling the pair's adventures for thirty years.

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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "Ill Met in Lankhmar" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Leiber’s best collection ever.This article needs additional citations for verification. Each one overlying yet blending with the other, like a pile of semi-transparent masks.””) “”Gonna Roll the Bones,”” “”Ship of Shadows,”” “”Ill Met in Lankhmar,”” and the ironic antidefamation fantasy “”Belsen Express””–which is a gasser. Leiber’s classiest acts are here: “”The Automatic Pistol,”” in which a dead hood’s pistol pursues his murderer “”Smoke Ghost””–a juicy updating of just what a modern ghost should be like (“”A smoky composite face with the hungry anxiety of the unemployed, the neurotic restlessness of the person without purpose, the jerky tension of the high-pressure metropolitan worker.the aggressive whine of the panhandler.and a thousand other twisted emotional patterns. There’s not a dumb story in the book, though some–such as “”Poor Superman,”” the story of a gigantic artificial intelligence–have been outdone by others.

If their deaths turn out to be only flirtations with death, the farewell notes seem to have sounded.

“”Curse”” may be Fafhrd and Grey Mouser’s swan song, in that they die–for a while. The present collection includes the second earliest swords-and-sorcery fantasy in Leiber’s Grey Mouser and Fafhrd series “”Two Sought Adventure”” (1939) and the latest, “”The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars”” (1983). The cream of octogenarian Leiber’s fantasies, holding 50 years of stories (44 selections) in one giant volume that can be seen as the capstone of Leiber’s storytelling–although he has written some well-remembered novels (Gather, Darkness and Conjure Wife, filmed excellently as Burn, Witch, Burn). The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.Witches of the Mind: A Critical Study of Fritz Leiber.Fafhrd & The Gray Mouser (Epic & DC Comics).Masters of the Weird Tale: Fritz Leiber.Masters of Science Fiction: Fritz Leiber.