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message 1: by Dan (last edited Jun 26, 2019 09:34PM) (new)

Dan The stories have been collected in the so-called "Swords" series:

Swords and Deviltry (collection 1970)
1) "Induction" (vignette 1957, "Two Sought Adventure")
2) "The Snow Women" (novella 1970 Fantastic)
3) "The Childhood and Youth of the Gray Mouser" (1978) by Harry Fischer
4) "The Unholy Grail" (novelette 1962 Fantastic)
5) "Ill Met in Lankhmar" (novella 1970 F&SF)—telling how Fafhrd and the Mouser met. This story won both a Nebula award and a Hugo award,

Swords Against Death (collection 1970)
6) "The Circle Curse" (1970, first publication)
7) "The Jewels in the Forest" (novelette 1939 Unknown, as "Two Sought Adventure")
8) "Thieves' House" (novelette 1943 Unknown)
9) "The Bleak Shore" (1940 Unknown)
10) "The Howling Tower" (1941 Unknown)
11) "The Sunken Land" (1942 Unknown)
12) "The Seven Black Priests" (novelette 1953 Other Worlds)
13) "Claws from the Night" (novelette 1951 Suspense as "Dark Vengeance")
14) "The Price of Pain-Ease" (1970, first publication)
15) "Bazaar of the Bizarre" (novelette 1963 Fantastic)

Swords in the Mist (collection 1968)
16) "The Cloud of Hate" (1963 Fantastic)
17) "Lean Times in Lankhmar" (novelette 1959 Fantastic)
18) "Their Mistress, the Sea" (1968, first publication)
19) "When the Sea-King's Away" (novelette 1960 Fantastic)
20) "The Wrong Branch" (1968, first publication)
21) "Adept's Gambit" (novella 1947, in Leiber's Night's Black Agents collection)

Swords Against Wizardry (collection 1968)
22) "In the Witch's Tent" (1968, first publication)
23) "Stardock" (novelette 1965 Fantastic)
24) "The Two Best Thieves in Lankhmar" (1968 Fantastic)
25) The Lords of Quarmall (novella 1964 Fantastic), with Harry Otto Fischer

26) The Swords of Lankhmar (novel 1968—first part published as Scylla’s Daughter (novella 1961 Fantastic)

Swords and Ice Magic (collection 1977)
27) "The Sadness of the Executioner" (1973, in Flashing Swords! #1, ed. Lin Carter)
28) "Beauty and the Beasts" (vignette 1974, in The Book of Fritz Leiber)
29) "Trapped in the Shadowland" (1973 Fantastic)
30) "The Bait" (vignette 1973 Whispers)
31) "Under the Thumbs of the Gods" (1975 Fantastic)
32) "Trapped in the Sea of Stars" (1975, in The Second Book of Fritz Leiber)
33) "The Frost Monstreme" (novelette 1976, in Flashing Swords! #3, ed. Lin Carter)
34) Rime Isle (novella 1977 Cosmos SF&F Magazine) (these last two published together as Rime Isle by Whispers Press in 1977)

The Knight and Knave of Swords (collection 1988)
35) "Sea Magic" (1977 The Dragon)
36) "The Mer She" (novelette 1983, in Heroes and Horrors)
37) "The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars" (novella 1983, in Heroic Visions)
38) "The Mouser Goes Below" (novella 1988, first publication—portions first printed as "The Mouser Goes Below" (1987 Whispers) and "Slack Lankhmar Afternoon Featuring Hisvet" (1988 Terry’s Universe, ed. Beth Meacham)

Please inform me if any corrections need be made to this list. I'll be editing it from time to time to heighten the accuracy and usefulness.


message 2: by [deleted user] (new)

Book 5 of the series it the only Fafhrd & Gray Mouser novel, The Swords of Lankhmar.


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