Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser find themselves, along with their loves in the fabled city of Lankhmar, the largest and most notorious city in the world of Newhon. “Ill Met in Lankhmar” written in 1970, won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best Novella. He and Irvian, who he has now fallen in love with, escape and make their own path to the southern realms. With the aid of black magic, Mouse enacts his revenge on the Duke. Mouse discovers that the Duke’s daughter Ivrian was secretly studying with Rho and holds her responsible for his master’s murder.
Mouse is sent on a quest to find a talisman for his master but returns home to find Glavas Rho dead and their house in the forest destroyed by Duke Janarrl. “The Unholy Grail” published in 1962, introduces us to Mouse, a young apprentice to the wizard Glavas Rho who secretly practices magic in a kingdom where magic is outlawed. The young 18 year-old barbarian finds himself in an arranged marriage with a girl from his clan but falls in love with an actress and runs off with her to explore the southern kingdom. “The Snow Women” published in 1970, introduced Fafhrd, a member of the Snow Clan who lives in the northern Cold Waste. Leiber wrote these three stories essentially as origins of the two characters as well as detailing their very first meeting.
While it is chronologically is the first of the pair’s adventures, the three stories contained in the volume were written many years after their creation in the 1930’s. Swords and Deviltry is the first of seven books in the swords & sorcery/fantasy series featuring Fritz Leiber’s pair or roguish adventurers Fafhrd, the giant northern barbarian warrior, and the Gray Mouser, the diminutive thief and wizard. Fritz Leiber, Swords & Sorcery, Swords and Deviltry
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