Fritz Leiber bibliography

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This is a bibliography of works by Fritz Leiber.

Contents

Leiber's only solo Grey Mouser tale, "The Unholy Grail", was the cover story for the October 1962 issue of Fantastic Fantastic 196210.jpg
Leiber's only solo Grey Mouser tale, "The Unholy Grail", was the cover story for the October 1962 issue of Fantastic

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series

  1. Swords and Deviltry (1970). Collection of 3 short stories.
  2. Swords Against Death (1970). Collection of 10 short stories.
  3. Swords in the Mist (1968). Collection of 6 short stories.
  4. Swords Against Wizardry (1968). Collection of 4 short stories.
  5. The Swords of Lankhmar (1968) (expanded from "Scylla's Daughter" in Fantastic , 1963)
  6. Swords and Ice Magic (1977). Collection of 8 short stories. (Though see Rime Isle below.)
  7. The Knight and Knave of Swords (1988) Retitled Farewell to Lankhmar (1998, US/2000, UK)
  1. The Three Swords Omnibus of books 1-3
  2. The Sword's Masters Omnibus of books 4-6

Novels/Novellas

The Big Time was serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction in 1958 Galaxy 195803.jpg
The Big Time was serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction in 1958

Collections

Plays

Short stories

1939
"Two Sought Adventure" aka "The Jewels in the Forest" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
1940
"The Automatic Pistol"
"The Bleak Shore" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
1941
"The Howling Tower" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
"The Power of the Puppets"
"Smoke Ghost"
"They Never Come Back"
1942
"The Hill and the Hole"
"The Hound"
"The Phantom Slayer" - aka "The Inheritance"
"Spider Mansion"
"The Sunken Land" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
1943
"The Mutant's Brother"
"Thieves' House" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
"To Make a Roman Holiday"
1944
"Business of Killing"
"Sanity" aka "Crazy Wolf"
"Taboo"
"Thought"
1945
"The Dreams of Albert Moreland"
"Wanted — An Enemy"
1946
"Alice and the Allergy"
"Mr. Bauer and the Atoms"
1947
"Adept's Gambit" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
"Diary in the Snow"
"The Man Who Never Grew Young"
1949
"The Girl with the Hungry Eyes" — vampire story
"In the X-Ray"
1950
"The Black Ewe"
"Coming Attraction"
"The Dead Man"
"The Enchanted Forest"
"Later Than You Think"
"Let Freedom Ring" aka "The Wolf Pack"
"The Lion and the Lamb"
"Martians, Keep Out!"
"The Ship Sails at Midnight"
"You're All Alone"
1951
"Appointment in Tomorrow" aka "Poor Superman"
"Cry Witch!"
"Dark Vengeance" aka "Claws from the Night" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
"Nice Girl with Five Husbands"
"A Pail of Air"
"When the Last Gods Die"
1952
"Dr. Kometevsky's Day"
"The Foxholes of Mars" — appeared in the 1969 anthology The War Book, edited by James Sallis.
"I'm Looking for "Jeff""
"The Moon Is Green"
"Yesterday House"
1953
"A Bad Day for Sales"
"The Big Holiday"
"The Night He Cried" — a notable sf pastiche of Mickey Spillane
"The Seven Black Priests" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
1954
"The Mechanical Bride" (play)
"The Silence Game"
1957
"The Big Trek"
"Femmequin 973"
"Friends and Enemies"
"Last"
"Time Fighter"
"Time in the Round"
"What's He Doing in There?"
1958
"The Big Time" (short novel) — Change War story
"Bread Overhead"
"Bullet With His Name"
"A Deskful of Girls" — Change War story
"The Last Letter"
"Little Old Miss Macbeth"
"Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-TAH-Tee"
"Space-Time for Springers" — first Gummitch story
"Try and Change the Past" — Change War story
"Pipe Dream" was the cover story for the February 1959 issue of If, illustrated by Kelly Freas If 195902.jpg
"Pipe Dream" was the cover story for the February 1959 issue of If , illustrated by Kelly Freas
1959
"Damnation Morning" — Change War story
"The House of Mrs. Delgado"
"The Improper Authorities"
"Lean Times in Lankhmar" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
"The Number of the Beast" — Change War story
"The Mind Spider" — Cthulhu Mythos story
"MS Found in a Maelstrom"
"Our Saucer Vacation"
"Pipe Dream"
"Psychosis from Space"
"The Reward"
"The Silver Eggheads" (novella, later expanded to book-length)
"Tranquility, Or Else!" aka "The Haunted Future"
"The Night of the Long Knives" took the cover of the January 1960 issue of Amazing Stories Amazing science fiction stories 196001.jpg
"The Night of the Long Knives" took the cover of the January 1960 issue of Amazing Stories
1960
"Deadly Moon"
"Mariana"
"The Night of the Long Knives" aka "The Wolf Pair"
"The Oldest Soldier" — Change War story
"Rats of Limbo"
"Schizo Jimmie"
"When the Sea-King's Away" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
Leiber's "Hatchery of Dreams" was the cover story on the November 1961 issue of Fantastic Fantastic 196111.jpg
Leiber's "Hatchery of Dreams" was the cover story on the November 1961 issue of Fantastic
"The Beat Cluster" took the cover of the October 1961 Galaxy Science Fiction Galaxy 196110.jpg
"The Beat Cluster" took the cover of the October 1961 Galaxy Science Fiction
1961
"All the Weed in the World"
"The Beat Cluster"
"The Goggles of Dr. Dragonet"
"Hatchery of Dreams"
"Kreativity for Kats" — Gummitch story
"Scream Wolf"
"Scylla's Daughter" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
"A Visitor from Back East"
1962
Leiber's novelette "A Bit of the Dark World" took the cover of the February 1962 issue of Fantastic Fantastic 196202.jpg
Leiber's novelette "A Bit of the Dark World" took the cover of the February 1962 issue of Fantastic
Leiber's "The Snowbank Orbit" was the cover story for the September 1962 issue of If If 196209.jpg
Leiber's "The Snowbank Orbit" was the cover story for the September 1962 issue of If
"The 64-Square Madhouse"
"The Big Engine" (shortened revision of "You're All Alone")
"A Bit of the Dark World"
"The Creature from Cleveland Depths" aka "The Lone Wolf"
"The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity"
"Mirror"
"The Moriarty Gambit"
"The Secret Songs"
"The Snowbank Orbit"
"The Thirteenth Step"
"The Unholy Grail" — Gray Mouser story
1963
Leiber's "Dr. Adams' Garden of Evil" took the cover of the February 1963 issue of Fantastic Fantastic 196302.jpg
Leiber's "Dr. Adams' Garden of Evil" took the cover of the February 1963 issue of Fantastic
Leiber's novelette "Bazaar of the Bizarre" was the cover story for the August 1963 issue of Fantastic Fantastic 196308.jpg
Leiber's novelette "Bazaar of the Bizarre" was the cover story for the August 1963 issue of Fantastic
Leiber's "A Hitch in Space" took the cover of the August 1963 issue of Worlds of Tomorrow Worlds of tomorrow 196308.jpg
Leiber's "A Hitch in Space" took the cover of the August 1963 issue of Worlds of Tomorrow
"237 Talking Statues, Etc."
"Bazaar of the Bizarre" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
"The Casket-Demon"
"The Cloud of Hate" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
"Crimes Against Passion"
"Dr. Adams' Garden of Evil"
"Game for Motel Room"
"A Hitch in Space"
"Kindergarten"
"Myths My Great-Granddaughter Taught Me"
"No Great Magic" — Change War story
"The Spider"
"Success"
"X Marks the Pedwalk"
1964
"Be of Good Cheer"
"The Black Gondolier"
"Lie Still, Snow White"
"The Lords of Quarmall" (with Harry O. Fischer) — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
"Midnight in the Mirror World"
"When the Change-Winds Blow" — Change War story
1965
"Cyclops"
"Far Reach to Cygnus"
"Four Ghosts in Hamlet"
"The Good New Days"
"Knight's Move" aka "Knight to Move" — Change War story
"Moon Duel"
"Stardock" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
1966
"The Crystal Prison"
"Sunk Without Trace"
"To Arkham and the Stars" — a Cthulhu Mythos story
1967
"Answering Service"
"Black Corridor" — Change War story
"Gonna Roll the Bones" - winner of Hugo and Nebula awards.
"The Inner Circles" aka "The Winter Flies"
1968
"Crazy Annaoj"
"In the Witch's Tent" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
"One Station of the Way"
"A Specter is Haunting Texas"
"The Square Root of Brain"
"Their Mistress, the Sea" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
"The Turned-off Heads"
"The Two Best Thieves in Lankhmar" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
"When Brahma Wakes"
"The Wrong Branch" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
1969
"Endfray of the Ofay"
"Richmond, Late September, 1849"
"Ship of Shadows"
"When They Openly Walk"
1970
"America the Beautiful"
"The Circle Curse" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
"Ill Met in Lankhmar" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
"The Price of Pain-Ease" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
"The Snow Women" — Fafhrd story
1971
"Gold, Black, and Silver"
1972
"Another Cask of Wine"
"The Bump"
"Day Dark, Night Bright"
"The Lotus Eaters"
1973
"The Bait" — Fafhrd & Gray Mouser story
"Cat Three"
"The Sadness of the Executioner" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
"Trapped in the Shadowland" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
1974
"Beauty and the Beasts" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
"Cat's Cradle" — Gummitch story
"Do You Know Dave Wenzel?"
"Midnight by the Morphy Watch"
"Mysterious Doings in the Metropolitan Museum"
"WaIF"
1975
"Belsen Express"
"Catch That Zeppelin!"
"The Glove"
"Night Passage"
"Trapped in the Sea of Stars" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
"Under the Thumbs of the Gods" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
1976
"Dark Wings"
"The Death of Princes"
"The Eeriest Ruined Dawn World"
"The Frost Monstreme" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
"The Terror from the Depths" — a Cthulhu Mythos story
1977
"The Princess in the Tower 250,000 Miles High"
"Rime Isle" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
"A Rite of Spring"
"Sea Magic" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
1978
"Black Glass"
"The Mer She" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
1979
"The Button Molder"
"The Man Who Was Married to Space and Time"
1980
"The Repair People"
1981
"The Great San Francisco Glacier"
1982
"Horrible Imaginings"
"The Moon Porthole"
1983
"The Cat Hotel" — Gummitch story
"The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
1984
"Black Has Its Charms"
"The Ghost Light"
1988
"The Mouser Goes Below" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
"Slack Lankhmar Afternoon Featuring Hisvet" — excerpt from "The Mouser Goes Below"
1990
"Replacement for Wilmer: A Ghost Story"
1993
"Thrice the Brinded Cat"
2002
"The Enormous Bedroom"

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<i>Swords and Deviltry</i> Short story collection by Fritz Leiber

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<i>Swords Against Death</i> Short story collection by Fritz Leiber

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<i>Swords in the Mist</i> Book by Fritz Leiber

Swords in the Mist is a fantasy short story collection, first published in 1968, by American writer Fritz Leiber, featuring his sword and sorcery heroes Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. It is chronologically the third volume of the complete seven volume edition of the collected stories devoted to the characters. It was first published in paperback format during 1968 by Ace Books company, which reprinted the title numerous times through September 1990; later paperback editions were issued by ibooks (2003) and Dark Horse (2007). It has been published in the United Kingdom by Mayflower Books (1979) and Grafton. The first hardcover edition was issued by Gregg Press during December 1977. The book has also been gathered together with others in the series into various omnibus editions; The Three of Swords (1989), Lean Times in Lankhmar (1996), The First Book of Lankhmar (2001), and Lankhmar (2008).

<i>Swords Against Wizardry</i> Short story collection by Fritz Leiber

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<i>The Swords of Lankhmar</i> Novel by Fritz Leiber

The Swords of Lankhmar is a fantasy novel, first published 1968, by Fritz Leiber, featuring his sword and sorcery heroes Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. It is chronologically the fifth volume of the complete seven volume edition of the collected stories devoted to the characters. The book is an expansion of Leiber's earlier novella "Scylla's Daughter", which was published originally in the magazine Fantastic Stories of Imagination for May 1961. The full novel first published in paperback format during 1968 by Ace Books company, which reprinted the title numerous times through 1986; a later paperback edition was issued by Dark Horse (2008). It has been published in the United Kingdom by Mayflower Books (1970) and Grafton. The first hardcover edition was issued by Rupert Hart-Davis during June 1969; a later hardcover edition was issued by Gregg Press during December 1977. The book has also been gathered together with others in the series into various omnibus editions; Swords' Masters (1990), Return to Lankhmar (1997), and The Second Book of Lankhmar (2001).

<i>Swords and Ice Magic</i> Short story collection by Fritz Leiber

Swords and Ice Magic is a fantasy short story collection, first published in 1977, by American writer Fritz Leiber, featuring his sword and sorcery heroes Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. It is chronologically the sixth volume of the complete seven volume edition of the collected stories devoted to the characters. It was first published in paperback format during July 1977 by Ace Books company, which reprinted the title numerous times through 1990; a later paperback edition was issued by Dark Horse (2007). It has been published in the United Kingdom by Mayflower Books and Grafton. The first hardcover edition was issued by Gregg Press during December 1977. The book has also been gathered together with others in the series into various omnibus editions; Swords' Masters (1990), Return to Lankhmar (1997), and The Second Book of Lankhmar (2001).

<i>The Knight and Knave of Swords</i> Short stoy collection by Fritz Leiber

The Knight and Knave of Swords is a fantasy short story collection by American writer Fritz Leiber, first published in 1988, featuring his sword and sorcery heroes Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. It is chronologically the seventh and last volume of the complete seven volume edition of the collected stories devoted to the characters. It was first published in hardcover format during December 1988 by William Morrow and Company, and in paperback format during February 1990 by Ace Books company; it was later reissued with the title Farewell to Lankhmar in both hardcover and paperback formats by White Wolf company ; the most recent later paperback edition, from Dark Horse (2008), reverted to the original title. It has been published in the United Kingdom by Grafton and Gollancz (2000); the latter adopted the title used by the White Wolf editions. The book has also been gathered together with others in the series into the omnibus edition The Second Book of Lankhmar (2001).

<i>Swords Against the Shadowland</i> Book by Robin Wayne Bailey

Swords Against the Shadowland is a fantasy novel by American writer Robin Wayne Bailey, featuring Fritz Leiber's sword and sorcery heroes Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. It was first published as a trade paperback in August 1998 by White Wolf. A later trade paperback edition was issued by Dark Horse in April 2009. It was projected to be the first in a series of authorized continuations of the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser saga by Bailey. The second was reported to be "currently in progress" in 2008, but has yet to appear.

<i>Heroes and Horrors</i>

Heroes and Horrors is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by American writer Fritz Leiber, edited by Stuart David Schiff and illustrated by Tim Kirk. It was first published in hardcover in December 1978 by Whispers Press, and in paperback in August 1980 by Pocket Books. The paperback edition omits the illustrations.

<i>Lankhmar</i> (board game) Board game

Lankhmar is a fantasy board wargame published by TSR in 1976 that is based on both the Swords and Sorcery short stories of Fritz Leiber set in the fictional city of Lankhmar, and on a board game designed by Lieber and Harry Otto Fischer while they were in college.