Fritz Leiber
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Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (December 24, 1910-Sepember 5, 1992) was a science-fiction, horror and fantasy writer. Among his more notable creations are Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, of whose adventures there are seven books.
Works:
Stories:
In approximate order of publication:
- 1939: Two Sought Adventure (Unknown, August 1939)
- 1940: The Automatic Pistol (Weird Tales, May 1940)
- 1940: The Bleak Shore (Unknown Fantasy Fiction, November 1940)
- 1941: The Howling Tower (Unknown Fantasy Fiction, June 1941)
- 1941: They Never Come Back (Future Fiction, August 1941)
- 1941: Smoke Ghost (Unknown Worlds, October 1941)
- 1942: The Power of the Puppets (Thrilling Mystery, January 1942)
- 1942: The Phantom Slayer (Weird Tales, January 1942)
- 1942: The Sunken Land (Unknown Worlds, February 1942)
- 1942: The Hill and the Hole (Unknown Worlds, August 1942)
- 1942: Spider Mansion (Weird Tales, September 1942)
- 1942: The Hound (Weird Tales, November 1942)
- 1943: Thieves' House (Unknown Worlds, February 1943)
- 1943: Conjure Wife (Unknown Worlds, April 1943)
- 1943: Gather, Darkness! (Astounding Science Fiction, 3 parts: May - July 1943)
- 1943: The Mutant's Brother (Astounding Science Fiction, August 1943)
- 1943: To Make a Roman Holiday (Esquire, October 1943)
- 1944: Taboo (Astounding Science Fiction, February 1944)
- 1945: Destiny Times Three (Astounding Science Fiction, 2 parts: March - April 1945)
- 1947: Adept's Gambit (in Night's Black Agents)
- 1950: You're All Alone (Fantastic Adventures, July 1950)
- 1951: Dark Vengeance (Suspense, Fall 1951)
- 1952: I'm Looking For Jeff (Fantastic, Fall 1952)
- 1953: The Seven Black Priests (Other Worlds Science Stories, May 1953)
- 1957: Induction (in Two Sought Adventure)
- 1958: Try and Change the Past (Astounding Science Fiction, March 1958)
- 1958: The Big Time (Galaxy Magazine, 2 parts: March - April 1958) Hugo award-winner
- 1958: A Deskful of Girls (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1958)
- 1958: Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-TAH-Tee (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1958)
- 1958: Space-Time for Springers (Star Science Fiction Stories No. 4, Nov 1958, edited by Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, #272K)
- 1958: The Number of the Beast (Galaxy Magazine, December 1958)
- 1959: Pipe Dream (If, February 1959)
- 1959: Damnation Morning (Fantastic, August 1959)
- 1959: Lean Times in Lankhmar (Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, November 1959)
- 1959: The Mind Spider (Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, November 1959)
- 1959: The Improper Authorities (Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, November 1959)
- 1959: Tranquility, Or Else! (Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, November 1959)
- 1960: The Oldest Soldier (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1960)
- 1960: When the Sea-King's Away... (Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, May 1960)
- 1961: Kreativity for Kats Galaxy Magazine, April 1961)
- 1961: Scylla's Daughter (Fantastic Stories of Imagination, May 1961)
- 1961: The Goggles of Dr. Dragonet (Fantastic Stories of Imagination, July 1961)
- 1961: The Big Time (translated by Vanna Lombardi as Il grande tempo, Galaxy (Italian edition), 4 parts: November 1961 - February 1962)
- 1962: The Unholy Grail (Fantastic Stories of Imagination, October 1962)
- 1963: The Cloud of Hate (Fantastic Stories of Imagination, May 1963)
- 1963: Bazaar of the Bizarre (Fantastic Stories of Imagination, August 1963)
- 1963: No Great Magic (Galaxy Magazine, December 1963)
- 1964: The Wanderer (1964, Ballantine, #U6010)
- 1964: The Lords of Quarmall (Fantastic Stories of Imagination, 2 parts: January - February 1964) (with Harry Fischer)
- 1964: Adept's Gambit (abridged by the author) (Fantastic Stories of Imagination, May 1964)
- 1965: Far Reach to Cygnus (Amazing Stories, February 1965)
- 1965: Stardock (abridged by the author) (Fantastic, September 1965)
- 1965: Knight's Move (?)
- 1967: Black Corridor (Galaxy Magazine, December 1967)
- 1968: Their Mistress, the Sea (in Swords in the Mist)
- 1968: The Wrong Branch (in Swords in the Mist)
- 1968: A Specter is Haunting Texas (Galaxy Magazine, 3 parts: July - September 1968)
- 1968: The Two Best Thieves in Lankhmar (Fantastic, August 1968)
- 1968: In the Witch's Tent (in Swords Against Wizardry)
- 1970: The Circle Curse (in Swords Against Death)
- 1970: The Snow Women (Fantastic, April 1970)
- 1970: Ill Met In Lankhmar (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1970)
- 1971: The Price of Pain-Ease (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1971)
- 1973: The Sadness of the Executioner (Flashing Swords! 1, 1973, edited by Lin Carter)
- 1973: Trapped in the Shadowland (Fantastic, November 1973)
- 1973: The Bait (Whispers #2, December 1973)
- 1974: Beauty and the Beasts (The Book of Fritz Leiber, January 1974)
- 1975: Under the Thumbs of the Gods (Fantastic, April 1975)
- 1975: Trapped in the Sea of Stars ('The Second Book of Fritz Leiber, September 1975)
- 1976: The Frost Monstreme (Flashing Swords! #3: Warriors and Wizards, August 1976, edited by Lin Carter, Dell, #2579)
- 1977: The Pale Brown Thing (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2 parts: January - February 1977)
- 1977: Rime Isle (Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine, 2 parts: May 1977 and July 1977)
- 1977: Sea Magic (The Dragon Magazine, December 1977 - Issue #11)
- 1978: The Mer She (Heroes and Horrors, December 1978)
- 1983: The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars (Heroic Visions, March 1983, edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson)
- 1983: The Cat Hotel (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1983)
- 1987: The Mouser Goes Below (excerpt) (Whispers #23-24, October 1987)
- 1988: Slack Lankhmar Afternoon Featuring Hisvet (excerpt from The Mouser Goes Below) (Terry's Universe, June 1988, edited by Beth Meacham, Tor, 0-312-93058-5)
- 1988: The Mouser Goes Below (The Knight and Knave of Swords, December 1978)
Still a work in progress, but starting to take shape. Bear with me, I have only limited time to work on this.)
Books:
- 1943: Conjure Wife (originally appeared in Unknown Worlds, April 1943)
- 1943: Gather, Darkness! (serialized in Astounding Science Fiction, May, June, and July 1943)
- 1945: Destiny Times Three (? 1945, Wildside Press, 1-4344-9868-9)
- 1950: Gather, Darkness! (1950, Pellegrini & Cudahy)
- 1953: The Sinful Ones (rewrite of You're All Alone, an abbreviated version of which appeared in 1950 Fantastic Adventures)
- 1953: Conjure Wife, (Lion Books, #179)
- 1953: The Green Millennium (1953, Abelard Press)
- 1957: Two Sought Adventure (Gnome Press), collection of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories
- 1961: The Big Time (expanded from the version serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction, March and April 1958), part of the Change War series
- 1962: The Silver Eggheads, (Jan 1962, Ballantine, #F561)
- 1961: The Big Time / The Mind Spider and Other Stories (Ace Double, #D-491)
- 1964: The Wanderer (1964, Ballantine, #U6010)
- 1966: Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (Apr 1966, Ballantine, #U6125) (novelisation of a screenplay by Clair Huffaker)
- 1968: Swords in the Mist (Ace, 0-441-79185-9), collection of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories
- 1968: Swords Against Wizardry (Ace, #H-73), collection of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories
- 1968: The Swords of Lankhmar (? 1968, Ace, #79222), Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser novel, including Scylla's Daughter (1961)
- 1969: A Specter is Haunting Texas
- 1970: Swords and Deviltry (? 1970, Ace, 0-441-79191-3), collection of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories
- 1970: Swords Against Death (Ace, #79152), collection of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories
- 1974: The Book of Fritz Leiber, (DAW Books, #UQ1091, Jan 1974)
- 1975: The Second Book of Fritz Leiber (DAW Books, #UY1195, September 1975)
- 1977: Our Lady of Darkness (Feb 1977, Berkley/Putnam, 0-399-11872-1) (expanded version of The Pale Brown Thing)
- 1977: Rime Isle (Whispers Press, 0-918372-01-1), collection of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories
- 1977: Swords and Ice Magic (? 1977, Ace, 0-441-79167-0), collection of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories
- 1978: Bazaar of the Bizarre, collection of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories
- 1978: The Change War (December 1978, Gregg Press, 0-8398-2493-9)
- 1978: Heroes and Horrors (December 1978, Whispers Press, 0-918372-03-8)
- 1980: A rewritten version of The Sinful Ones
- 1983: Changewar (May 1983, Ace, 0-441-10259-X) (a different collection from The Change War)
- 1988: The Knight and Knave of Swords (December 1988, Fritz Leiber, William Morrow, 0-688-08530-X), final collection of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories
- 1997: The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich (Novella in the style of H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1936 and lost for decades)
Work in progress.