Artist Fritz Leiber • Birth โ™‘Sat 24 Dec 1910 (81 years, 8 months, 12 days, 29841 living days) • R.I.P. Sat 05 Sep 1992 (113 years, 3 months, 4 days, 41368 total living and posthumous days)
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Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theater and films, playwright and chess expert. With writers such as Robert E. Howard and Michael Moorcock, Leiber can be regarded as one of the fathers of sword and sorcery fantasy, having coined the term.

“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.

First 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. The story forms part four of the collection Swords and Deviltry.

It was awarded the 1970 Nebula Award for Best Novella and the 1971 Hugo Award for Best Novella.

One murky night in Lankhmar, Fissif and Slevyas, members of the Thieves’ Guild, steal valuable jewels from Jengao the gem merchant. Whilst returning to Thieves’ House, they are ambushed and attacked by Gray Mouser and Fafhrd simultaneously, who steal the gems. Recognising kindred spirits, they agree to share the loot. They return to Mouser’s lodgings, where Fafhrd is introduced to Mouser’s woman Ivrian and Ivrian meets Fafhrd’s woman, Vlana.

Somewhat drunk, Mouser persuades Fafhrd to join him in a quest to infiltrate the headquarters of the Thieves’ Guild, in the guise of members of the Beggars’ Guild. They are initially successful, but their disguise comes unstuck when their glib story is seen through by Krovas, Grandmaster of the Thieves, and the Beggarmaster. Fleeing, they return to Mouser’s hovel, only to find to their horror that both girls have been killed and partially eaten by giant rats and by Slivikin, a fast-moving evil witch-beast conjured up by Krovas’s warlock, Hristomilo.

In grief and anger, they return to Thieves’ House and charge in, causing panic and chaos. They kill Hristomilo, then flee from the city. See the compilation of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser and map by Jim Cawthorn. Originally is written of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Apr 1970) on chapter 1. See Michael Moorcock if you are curious about Cawthorn.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series
  • Swords and Deviltry (1970)
  • Swords Against Death (1970)
  • Swords in the Mist (1968)
  • Swords Against Wizardry (1968)
  • The Swords of Lankhmar (1968)
  • Swords and Ice Magic (1977)
  • The Knight and Knave of Swords (1988)

The song are Frost and Fire, Ill Met In Lankhmarย andย Return To Lankhmar, and possibly more. See Amazon and ISFDB on Fritz Leiber. CU@FB born,ย CU@FB R.I.P.

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