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Fritz Leiber Books In Order

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Books In Publication Order

  1. The Swords of Lankhmar (1968)
  2. Swords in the Mist (1968)
  3. Swords Against Wizardry (1968)
  4. Swords and Deviltry (1970)
  5. Swords Against Death (1970)
  6. Swords and Ice Magic (1977)
  7. The Knight and Knave of Swords (1988)
  8. Swords Against the Shadowlands (By:Robin Wayne Bailey) (1994)

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Books In Chronological Order

  1. Swords and Deviltry (1970)
  2. Swords Against Death (1970)
  3. Swords in the Mist (1968)
  4. Swords Against Wizardry (1968)
  5. The Swords of Lankhmar (1968)
  6. Swords and Ice Magic (1977)
  7. The Knight and Knave of Swords (1988)
  8. Swords Against the Shadowlands (By:Robin Wayne Bailey) (1994)

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser (comics) Books In Publication Order

  1. Ill Met in Lankhmar (By:Howard Chaykin) (1990)
  2. The Circle Curse/The Howling Tower (1991)
  3. Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser (By:Howard Chaykin) (2007)

Change War Books In Publication Order

  1. The Big Time (1958)
  2. Changewar (1983)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Gather, Darkness! (1943)
  2. Conjure Wife (1943)
  3. Destiny Times Three (1945)
  4. The Sinful Ones (1950)
  5. The Green Millennium (1953)
  6. The Silver Eggheads (1961)
  7. The Wanderer (1964)
  8. A Specter Is Haunting Texas (1968)
  9. Our Lady of Darkness (1977)
  10. Rime Isle (1977)
  11. No Truce with Kings & Ship of Shadows (With: Poul Anderson) (1989)
  12. The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich (1996)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Coming Attraction (1950)
  2. The Moon Is Green (1952)
  3. What’s He Doing in There? (1957)
  4. Bread Overhead (1958)
  5. The Night of the Long Knives (1960)
  6. No Great Magic (1963)
  7. Gonna Roll the Bones (1967)
  8. The Last Letter (2011)
  9. The Dead Man (2011)
  10. Mariana (2011)
  11. Claws from the Night (2014)
  12. Yesterday House (2016)
  13. Nice Girl with 5 Husbands (2016)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Night’s Black Agents (1947)
  2. A Pail of Air (1951)
  3. Night Monsters (1953)
  4. The Big Time / The Mind Spider and Other Stories (1961)
  5. The Creature from Cleveland Depths (1962)
  6. Shadows With Eyes (1962)
  7. Ships to the Stars (1964)
  8. The Night of the Wolf (1966)
  9. The Secret Songs (1968)
  10. The Book of Fritz Leiber (1974)
  11. The Best of Fritz Leiber (1974)
  12. The Second Book of Fritz Leiber (1975)
  13. The Worlds of Fritz Leiber (1976)
  14. Heroes and Horrors (1978)
  15. Ervool (1980)
  16. Ship of Shadows (1982)
  17. The Mystery of the Japanese Clock (1982)
  18. The Ghost Light (1984)
  19. Bazaar of the Bizarre (1984)
  20. The Leiber Chronicles: Fifty Years of Fritz Leiber (1990)
  21. Dark Ladies (1991)
  22. Gummitch and Friends (1992)
  23. Kreativity for Kats and Other Feline Fantasies (1992)
  24. The Black Gondolier (1998)
  25. Selected Stories (2001)
  26. Smoke Ghost (2002)
  27. Smoke Ghost& Other Apparitions (2002)
  28. Day Dark, Night Bright (2002)
  29. Horrible Imaginings (2004)
  30. The Creature from Cleveland Depths and Other Tales (2007)
  31. Poor Superman and Others (2009)
  32. Strange Wonders (2010)
  33. Horror Gems, Vol. Two (2011)
  34. Science Fiction Collection 001 (2011)
  35. The Night of the Long Knives and Other Works (2011)
  36. Science Fiction Collection 002 (2011)
  37. The Lords of Quarmall / The Beacon to Elsewhere (2011)
  38. Snakes & Spiders (2012)
  39. Hatchery of Dreams (2012)
  40. The Moon Is Green and Other Tales (2013)
  41. The Frost Monstreme (2014)
  42. Fritz Leiber (2016)
  43. Bullet with His Name and Other Tales (2016)
  44. A Hitch in Space and Other Tales (2016)
  45. The Science Fiction Archive #2 (2018)

SF Authors Choice Books In Publication Order

  1. SF Authors’ Choice 2 (By:Harry Harrison) (1970)
  2. SF Authors’ Choice 3 (By:Harry Harrison) (1973)

The Book of Cthulhu Books In Publication Order

  1. The Book of Cthulhu (2011)
  2. The Book of Cthulhu II (2012)

Weird Heroes Books In Publication Order

  1. Weird Heroes Volume 1 (By:Philip José Farmer) (1975)
  2. Weird Heroes, A New American Pulp (1975)
  3. Weird Heroes Volume 2 (By:Steve Englehart) (1975)
  4. Weird Heroes: Nightshade (By:Byron Preiss) (1976)
  5. Quest of the Gypsy (By:Ron Goulart) (1976)
  6. Weird Heroes Volume 6 (By:Robert Bloch) (1977)
  7. Weird Heroes, Volume 5 (By:Ted White) (1977)
  8. Eye of the Vulture (By:Ron Goulart) (1977)
  9. Weird Heroes Volume 8 (By:Byron Preiss) (1977)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1963 (1963)
  2. Dangerous Visions (1967)
  3. Backdrop of Stars (1968)
  4. Swords Against Tomorrow (1970)
  5. Six Science Fiction Plays (1975)
  6. Whispers (1977)
  7. Barbarians (1986)
  8. Terry’s Universe: Science fiction’s finest writers join in honoring the memory of Terry Carr (1987)
  9. Robert Adams’ Book of Alternate Worlds (1987)
  10. The Horror Hall of Fame (1991)
  11. Cats in Space… and Other Places (1992)
  12. Space Soldiers (2001)
  13. In Lands That Never Were: Tales of Swords and Sorcery from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (2004)
  14. The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010)
  15. The Wildside Book of Fantasy (2012)
  16. The Best of Galaxy, Volume Two (2016)
  17. Blood Is Not Enough (2019)

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Fritz Leiber Books Overview

The Swords of Lankhmar

Drawing themes from Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, and H.P Lovecraft, master manipulator Fritz Leiber is a worldwide legend within the fantasy genre, actually coining the term ‘Sword and Sorcery’ that describes the sub genre he helped create. Before THE LORD OF THE RINGS took the world by storm, Leiber’s fantastic but thoroughly flawed anti heroes, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, adventured and stumbled deep within the caves of Inner Earth as well, albeit a different one. They wondered and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwon’s grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar is Leiber’s fully realized vivid incarnation of urban decay and civilization’s corroding effect on the human psyche. Fafhrd and Mouse are not innocents; their world is no land of honor and righteousness. It is a world of human complexities and violent action, of discovery and mystery, of swords and sorcery. The Swords of Lankhmar finds the city characteristically plagued by rats. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are in the employ of Glipkerio, the overlord, to guard a grain ship on its journey. Along the way the rats on board stage a rebellion and threaten to take the ship until a two headed sea monster saves the day. If only there were two headed sea monsters everywhere, Lankhmar would be safe, too. Alas, upon returning to the city, the two discover that Lankhmar is controlled by rats. It is a city known for its thieves and swine, but even the city’s muddiest bottom feeders had never seen pillaging and plundering like this. And only the sorcerers Sheelba of the Eyeless Face and Ningauble of the Seven Eyes can scare this scourge. Mouser must shrink into the rat’s world and Fafhrd must unleash the feared feline War Cats. Then the fun really begins.

Swords in the Mist

Fafhrd and Gray Mouser visit the Witch’s Tent to consult a sorceress who holds the secret to their escape but when would they ever need to escape? Their luck has been good so far; one way out should work. Their luck continues as thieves. They are the best thieves in Lankhmar until better positions arise: The Lords of Quarmall. Gray Mouser and Fafhrd steal a kingdom within a hill and declare themselves Lords.

Swords Against Wizardry

‘There were two writers of the earlier generation whose literary standards and skills, whose talent and sensibility they new wave wirters still admired. One was Phillip K. Dick. The other was Fritz Leiber, whose masterly prose and urbane wit continued to outshine our callow talents. We revered him. We still do.’ Michael Moorcock Drawing themes from Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, and H.P Lovecraft, master manipulator Fritz Leiber is a worldwide legend within the fantasy genre, actually coining the term ‘Sword and Sorcery’ that describes the sub genre he helped create. Before Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Leiber’s fantastic but thoroughly flawed anti heroes, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, adventured and stumbled deep within the caves of Inner Earth as well, albeit a different one. They wondered and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwon’s grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar is Leiber’s fully realized vivid incarnation of urban decay and civilization’s corroding effect on the human psyche. Fafhrd and Mouse are not innocents; their world is no land of honor and righteousness. It is a world of human complexities and violent action, of discovery and mystery, of swords and sorcery. With Swords Against Wizardry, the fourth installment of the Lankhmar series, the story unveils behind the curtain in the Witch’s Tent. Fafhrd and Gray Mouser are there to consult a sorceress who holds the secret to their escape but when would they ever need to escape? Would they need this knowledge when they journey to Stardock? Where is there to escape up there? No doubt the icy seduction of ‘the cruel one’, with her greed for both gore and graciousness, could offer them several ways out. Their luck has been good so far; one way out should work. Their luck continues as thieves. They are the best thieves in Lankhmar until better positions arise: The Lords of Quarmall. Gray Mouser and Fafhrd steal a kingdom within a hill and declare themselves Lords.

Swords and Deviltry

The First Volume in ibooks’ Reissues of the Fantasies by Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Fritz Leiber! Swords and Deviltry introduces us to a strange world where fantastic but thoroughly flawed anti heroes Fafhrd and Gray Mouser find the familiar in themselves and discover the icy power of female magic. Three master magician femme fatales and a sprightly lad illuminate the bonds between father and son, the relationship between the bravado of the imagination, and the courage of fools. A hedge wizard explains the cold war between the sexes. Mouse and Fafhrd meet again and traverse the smoke and mirrors of Lankhmar learning more and more of the foggy world in which they live, experiencing the pleasures and pains of the City of Sevenscore Thousand Smokers that will lead them to countless more adventures and misadventures.

Swords Against Death

In the second installment of this rousing series, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser journey from the ancient city of Lankhmar, searching for a little adventure and debauchery to ease their broken hearts. When a stranger challenges them to find and fight Death on the Bleak Shore, they battle demonic birds, living mountains, and evil monks on the way to their heroic fate. Fritz Leiber’s witty prose, lively plots and superb characterizations stand the test of time.

Swords and Ice Magic

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser have traveled the width and breadth of the land of Nehwon in search of adventure and fortune. Now lost at sea, their ship drawn out on the Great Equatorial Current, their journey brings them to Rime Isle, a tragic island populated by vagabonds and wanderers. The island is also home to a race of gods, schemers, and manipulators that plague the humans for their amuseme*nt. Will Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser be able to escape the island, or be trapped forever as pawns of the gods?

The Knight and Knave of Swords

Ramsey Campbell, the highly regarded British horror author called him, ‘the greatest living writer of supernatural horror fiction’. Drawing many of his own themes from Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, and H.P Lovecraft, master manipulator Franz Leiber is a worldwide legend within the Fantasy genre, actually coining the term ‘Sword and Sorcery’ that would describe the sub genre he would more than help create. While Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Leiber’s fantastic but thoroughly flawed anti heroes, Fafhrd and Grey Mouser, adventured and stumbled deep within the caves of Inner Earth as well, albeit a different one. They wondered and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwon s grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar, is Leiber s fully realized, vivid, incarnation of urban decay and civilization s corroding effect on the human psyche. Fafhrd and Mouse are not innocents; their world is no land of honor and righteousness. It is a world of human complexities and violent action, of discovery and mystery, of swords and sorcery. ‘Fritz Leiber’s tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are virtually a genre unto themselves. Urbane, idiosyncratic, comic, erotic and human, spiked with believable action of a master fantasist!’ William Gibson ‘After too long a wait, the master story teller of us all returns with a huge, anecdotal adventure in the magic drenched lives of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Glowing imagination melds with gorgeous language to make this one of Leiber’s very best…
which is a better best than this poor world usually has to offer. Leiber’s back: rejoice!’ Harlan Ellison ‘It’s all Fritz Leiber’s fault. If he weren’t such a deadly fine fantasist I wouldn’t be stopping everything to read his tales. And if he weren’t such a master I wouldn’t occasionally look out of the window and wish he’d interrupt my routine again, as he doesn’t do it often enough. The Knight and Knave of Swords came into my life and took over an otherwise fully programmed afternoon. I stop everything when a new Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story comes into my hands.’ Roger Zelazny

Swords Against the Shadowlands (By:Robin Wayne Bailey)

Years ago, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser turned their backs on the city of Lankhmar and the painful memories it held. But now, a deadly plague, spawned from a sorcerer’s curse, sweeps through the streets of Lankhmar, eating its victims from the inside and laying waste to the once vibrant city. The two reluctant heroes are called forth once again to face Lankhmar’s winding alleys and the old ghosts who lurk in them!

Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser (By:Howard Chaykin)

Since their first appearance in 1939, Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser have ranked among the most beloved characters in fantasy. Their rollicking adventures in the fantastic land of Nehwon have influenced the work of some of the best in modern fantasy, including Michael Moorcock, Terry Pratchett and countless others.

The Big Time

Have you ever worried about your memory because it doesn’t seem to recall exactly the same past from one day to the next? Have you ever thought you might be changing because of forces beyond your control? Have you ever thought that the whole universe might be a crazy, mixed-up dream? If you have, then you’ve had hints of the Change War. It’s been going on for a billion years and it’ll last another billion or so. Up and down the timeline, the two sides – ‘Spiders’ and ‘Snakes’ – battle endlessly to change the future and the past. Our lives, our memories, are their battleground. And in the midst of the war is the Place, outside space and time, where Greta Forzane and the other Entertainers provide solace and R and R for tired time warriors.

Gather, Darkness!

Gather, Darkness! is a science fiction classic. It tells the story of Armon Jarles, a man on the edge, living amidst the disputes of two rival powers at large in the world. 360 years after a nuclear holocaust ravaged mankind, throwing society back into the dark ages, the world is fraught with chaos and superstition. The new rulers over the mas*ses of humanity are the techno priests of the Great God, endowed with scientific knowledge lost to the rest of humanity. Jarles, originally of peasant descent, rises to become a priest of the Great God. He knows the gospel propagated by the priests to be a fraud, based on illusion and trickery. Even more offensive to him is the paucity of true believers among the priesthood. One day he rebels against his priestly training and attempts to incite the peasants to rise up and demand freedom, but they are not ready. Jarles is not the only dissenter trying to sabotage and expose the false theocracy of the priesthood witchcraft is slowly gaining strength and support among the populace. Although Jarles is unaware, his rebellion against the power of the priests is about to throw him headlong into the middle of the greatest holy war the world has ever seen.

Conjure Wife

Professor Norman Saylor considered magic nothing more than superstition. Then he learned that his own wife was a practicing sorceress. But he still refuses to accept the truth that in the secret occult warfare that governs our lives, magic is a matter of life and death. And that unbeknownst to men, every woman knows it. Filmed twice, as Weird Woman 1944 and Burn Witch Burn 1961, this tale of secret witchcraft on a modern college campus is as readable today as the day it was written.

Destiny Times Three

How can Thorn fight a dream foe risking life and sanity, that is exactly what he sets out to do…
and his shrewd tactics and reckless daring create a pulse hammering story against an all to real opponent!

The Sinful Ones

Carl Mackay had an okay job, a beautiful woman, and a lot of big plains. But one day he met a beautiful, frightened girl who didn’t quite belong in this world…

The Green Millennium

One day a cat perched on Phil Gish’s window. Not an ordinary cat a green cat. And with the cat Phil’s luck and life changed forever!

The Wanderer

The Wanderer inspires feelings of pure terror in the hearts of the five billion human being inhabiting planet earth. The presence of the alien planet causes increasingly severe tragedies and chaos. However, one man stands apart from the mass of frightened humanity. For him, the legendary Wanderer is a mere tale of bizarre alien domination and human submission. His conception of The Wanderer bleeds into unrequited love for the mysterious ‘she’ who owns him. Join sci fi master Fritz Leiber, winner ofboth the Hugo and Nebula awards, as he concocts a powerful allegorical novel that pierces to the heart of the human condition.

Our Lady of Darkness

Middle aged San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen is rediscovering ordinary life following a long alcoholic binge. Then one day, peering at his apartment window from atop a nearby hill, he sees a pale brown thing lean out his window and wave. This encounter sends Westen on a quest through ancient books and modern streets, for the dark forces and paramental entities that thrive amidst the towering skyscrapers of modern urban life and meanwhile, the entities are also looking for him.A pioneering work of modern urban fantasy, Our Lady of Darkness is perhaps Fritz Leiber’s greatest novel.

The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich

Fritz Leiber was one of the most famous fantasy and SF writers of the century, the author of many classics, including the popular Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser fantasy series. In 1936, young Leiber, then in correspondence with the famous writer H.P. Lovecraft, drafted this eerie story. Now Tor is pleased to present in its first paperback publication this short novel of cosmic dread and Lovecraftian horror.

Bread Overhead

‘Bread Overhead‘ is a story Fritz Leiber could have written to send up today’s bewildering bread aisle all those claims of low cal and low low carb. In fact, the story probably reads better now than it did in 1958, back when the choice came down to white or whole wheat. Leiber slyly imagines a near future when giant machines not only harvest the wheat field, but grind flour and bake bread on the spot the ultimate in big farming. In this toasted tomorrow, the highly mechanized Puffy Products is bent on producing the supremely lightest loaf. The story is what happens if bread isn’t just airy, but pumped full of lighter than air helium. Leiber Ships to the Stars didn’t often bake up such a souffle of spoof, but he’s a master in the kitchen. And ‘Bread Overhead‘ has just enough to say about human nature to be filling, besides.

The Night of the Long Knives

‘They were two desperate scavengers in a no man’s land of radiation and death. Living in a kill or be killed world. Can they fin a new life and hope? A grim, grisly post apocalypse story.’

No Great Magic

‘No Great Magic‘ fits into author Fritz Leiber’s dizzying view of history as a battlefield in constant change. He explores the idea in his ‘Change War’ novel, The Big Time, and this novella is part of the action. It works by itself as the tale of poor Greta, a girl taken in ‘like a pet’ by a company of Shakespearean actors. She lives in the dressing room of their little theater in New York’s Central Park. Leiber an actor’s son brings an insider’s eye to life behind the curtain. But Greta begins to doubt the curtain is real. She has physical and mental wounds to mend, and her mind plays tricks on her, but nothing accounts for the strange things she sees the shifts in time she senses. Is she caught up in a costumed staging of ‘MacBeth,’ or has she gone back to Shakespeare’s time? And why? The answer comes only, as Shakespeare said, ‘When the hurlyburly’s done,/ When the battle’s lost and won.’

Gonna Roll the Bones

Joe Slattermill is about to experience a night he’ll never forget. Tired of his decrepit house, he leaves his wife and mother behind and sets out for a night at The Boneyard. Joe has a knack for dice throwing and figures he can take on any opponent. But can he win when the stakes are raised, and it’s his life he’s gambling for? A classic fable in the tradition of ‘The Devil and Daniel Webster.’

The Creature from Cleveland Depths

Fritz Leiber’s ‘The Creature from Cleveland Depths‘ might have sounded far fetched fifty years ago a comic warning about people being bossed around by little machines that ride on their shoulders. But now, it seems to describe the real world of cell phones, Blackberries and iPods, and its prediction of terrible things to come isn’t so easy to shrug off. Leiber sets the tale in a future when ‘missiles are on the prowl,’ and most people live underground. George Gusterson is a writer with crazy ideas one being, he still lives on the surface. For another, he imagines a gizmo that would remind him of things like when to turn on the TV. George’s mere whim inspires an actual gadget called the Tickler, just a ‘wire recorder and clock’ at first, but then…
it whispers constantly through an earphone. It instills positive thinking. It injects drugs. It makes decisions. It weights 28 pounds. And it won’t get off. Only Gusterson understands what ‘the little fellow perched on your shoulder’ is really saying, one word: Obey! And only Gusterson knows what to say back, if it’s not too late.

Dark Ladies

Conjure WifeWitchcraft. Norman Saylor considered it nothing but superstition, until he learned that his own wife was a practicing sorceress. Even still, he refuses to accept the truth that every woman knows…
that in the secret occult warfare that governs our lives, witchcraft is a matter of life and death. Our Lady of DarknessMiddle aged San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen is rediscovering ordinary life following a long alcoholic binge. The one day, peering at his apartment window from a top a nearby hill, he sees a pale, brown thing lean out his window…
and wave. This encounter sends Westen on a quest through ancient books and modern streets, for the dark forces and paramental entities that thrive amidst the towering skyscrapers…
and, meanwhile, the entities are also looking for him.

The Black Gondolier

Announcing a new collection of stories by Fritz Leiber. Assembled here is a selection of Mr. Leiber’s best horrific tales, many of which have been virtually unobtainable for decades. From the riveting ‘Spider Mansion’ and ‘The Phantom Slayer’ from Weird Tales to the more recent ‘Lie Still, Snow White’ and ‘Black Has Its Charms’ from rare, small press magazines, this collection provides an overview of Leiber’s fifty plus years as an acknowledged master of the weird tale. While much of Leiber’s seminal science fiction and fantasy remains in print, his work in the field of supernatural horror has been sadly neglected until now. Edited by John Pelan and Steve Savile.

Selected Stories

Fritz Leiber’s work bridges the gap between the pulp era of H. P. Lovecraft and the Paperback era of P. K. Dick, and arguably, is as influential as both these authors. From a historical context, Leiber in fact knew both of the authors, and his work can be seen as a bridge connecting the many different flavors of genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Edited by award winning editors Jonathan Strahan and Charles Brown, this new collection of the grand master’s fiction covers all facets of his work, and features an Introduction by Neil Gaiman and an Afterword by Michael Chabon.

The Creature from Cleveland Depths and Other Tales

Collected in this volume are three of Fritz Leiber’s works: the short novel ‘The Creature from Cleveland Depths’ originally published in ‘Galaxy’ magazine in 1962; the humorous ‘Bread Overhead’ originally published in ‘Galaxy’ magazine in 1958; and the short novel ‘No Great Magic’ originally published in ‘Galaxy’ magazine in 1963. ‘No Great Magic’ is part of Leiber’s Change War series.

Strange Wonders

In regards to Fritz Leiber, I believe that publication of such unpublished and uncollected works only strengthens his literary greatness. Through fragments, drafts and practice writings, we can clearly see the evolution from Leiber, the amateur, to Leiber, the professional. We are exposed to the clear way in which he dedicated his life to the written word and trained his abilities to produce the award winning masterpieces that we read even today. While some may object to such a volume, I ask them this is not the dream just as important as the empire that had been built from it? Are not the blueprints and sketches as impressive as the buildings and the artwork? We must place all this into perspective, and see that publishing such works is not a smear upon Leiber’s legacy. Rather, it completes a full circle. If we are asked to be thorough in the biography of an individual, then we must also do so for their bibliography. Benjamin Szumskyj, from his Introduction

Horror Gems, Vol. Two

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories. ‘Horror Gems, Vol. Two‘ brings you a number of your best pals from the dark side: Joseph Payne Brennan, Ray Bradbury, Leah Bodine Drake, H. P. Lovecraft, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Robert F. Young, Fritz Leiber, Lee Francis, Elizabeth Sheldon, Gregory Luce, and Richard Stark as they literally try to scare the HELL out of you.

The Night of the Long Knives and Other Works

‘They were two desperate scavengers in a no man’s land of radiation and death. Living in a kill or be killed world. Can they fin a new life and hope? A grim, grisly post apocalypse story.’

The Book of Cthulhu

The Cthulhu Mythos is one of the 20th century”s most singularly recognizable literary creations. Initially created by H. P. Lovecraft and a group of his amorphous contemporaries the so called ‘Lovecraft Circle’, The Cthulhu Mythos story cycle has taken on a convoluted, cyclopean life of its own. Some of the most prodigious writers of the 20th century, and some of the most astounding writers of the 21st century have planted their seeds in this fertile soil. The Book of Cthulhu harvests the weirdest and most corpulent crop of these modern mythos tales. From weird fiction masters to enigmatic rising stars, The Book of Cthulhu demonstrates how Mythos fiction has been a major cultural meme throughout the 20th century, and how this type of story is still salient, and terribly powerful today. Table of Contents: Caitlin R. Kiernan Andromeda among the Stones Ramsey Campbell The Tugging Charles Stross A Colder War Bruce Sterling The Unthinkable Silvia Moreno Garcia Flash Frame W. H. Pugmire Some Buried Memory Molly Tanzer The Infernal History of the Ivybridge Twins Michael Shea Fat Face Elizabeth Bear Shoggoths in Bloom T. E. D. Klien Black Man With A Horn David Drake Than Curse the Darkness Charles Saunders Jeroboam Henley”s Debt Thomas Ligotti Nethescurial Kage Baker Calamari Curls Edward Morris Jihad over Innsmouth Cherie Priest Bad Sushi John Hornor Jacobs The Dream of the Fisherman”s Wife Brian McNaughton The Doom that Came to Innsmouth Ann K. Schwader Lost Stars Steve Duffy The Oram County Whoosit Joe R. Lansdale The Crawling Sky Brian Lumley The Fairground Horror Tim Pratt Cinderlands Gene Wolfe Lord of the Land Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. To Live and Die in Arkham John Langan The Shallows Laird Barron The Men from Porlock

Weird Heroes Volume 1 (By:Philip José Farmer)

An illustrated blend of fantasy and science fiction.

Weird Heroes Volume 6 (By:Robert Bloch)

An illustrated blend of fantasy and science fiction.

Weird Heroes Volume 8 (By:Byron Preiss)

An illustrated blend of fantasy and science fiction.

Dangerous Visions

Anthologies seldom make history, but Dangerous Visions is a grand exception. Harlan Ellison’s 1967 collection of science fiction stories set an almost impossibly high standard, as more than a half dozen of its stories won major awards not surpising with a contributors list that reads like a who’s who of 20th century SF: Samuel D. Delany, Philip K. Dick, Brian Aldiss, Roger Zelazny, Philip Jose Farmer, Fritz Leiber, Larry Niven and Robert Silverberg. Unavailable for 15 years, this huge anthology now returns to print, as relevant now as when it was first published.

Six Science Fiction Plays

A brilliant treasury of the best! Included are: The City on the Edge of Forever Harlan Ellison Sting! Tom Reamy Contact Point Theodore R. Cogswell and George Rae Cogswell Stranger with Roses John Jakes The Mechanical Bride Fritz Leiber Let Me Hear You Whisper Paul Zindel.

The Horror Hall of Fame

18 great tales, classics of the genre. Includes: The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe; Green Tea, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; The Damned Thing, by Ambrose Bierce; The Yellow Sign, by Robert W. Chambers; The Monkey’s Paw, by W. W. Jacobs; The White People, by Arthur Machen; The Willows, by Algernon Blackwood; Casting the Runes, by M. R. James; The Graveyard Rats, by Henry Kuttner; Pigeons from Hell, by Robert E. Howard; It, by Theodore Sturgeon; Smoke Ghost, by Fritz Leiber; Yours Truly Jack the Ripper, by Robert Bloch; The Small Assassin, by Ray Bradbury; The Whimper of Whipped Dogs, by Harlan Ellison; Calling Card, by Ramsey Campbell; Coin of the Realm nominated, 1982 World Fantasy Award, by Charles L. Grant; The Reach Do the Dead Sing? winner, 1982 World Fantasy Award, by Stephen King.

Space Soldiers

In this explosive anthology, ten of science fiction’s best new and classic writers imagine the soldiers who will one day fight and die on distant worlds. Featuring stories by: Fritz Leiber Joe Haldeman Paul J. McAuley Alastair Reynolds Stephen Baxter William Barton Tom Purdom Robert Reed Fred Saberhagen

In Lands That Never Were: Tales of Swords and Sorcery from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Long before Arnold attempted a pale copy, Conan the Barbarian held sway over the land, and all was swell. Neither man nor woman, beast nor spirit could rival him. Then, for many a day, he disappeared…
but lo, now he’s back! Conan is featured, together with some of fantasy’s favorite characters, in this compendium of swordplay and wizardry, fleet footed thieves and flat footed palace guards, witches and man eating leopards, giants and giant slugs. In Lands That Never Were also Includes introductions to each story by the editor.

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction features over a 150 years’ worth of the best science fiction ever collected in a single volume. The fifty two stories and critical introductions are organized chronologically as well as thematically for classroom use. Filled with luminous ideas, otherworldly adventures, and startling futuristic speculations, these stories will appeal to all readers as they chart the emergence and evolution of science fiction as a modern literary genre. They also provide a fascinating look at how our Western technoculture has imaginatively expressed its hopes and fears from the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century to the digital age of today. A free online teacher’s guide at www. wesleyan. edu/wespress/sfanthologyguide accompanies the anthology and offers access to a host of pedagogical aids for using this book in an academic setting. The stories in this anthology have been selected and introduced by the editors of Science Fiction Studies, the world’s most respected journal for the critical study of science fiction.

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