Swords and Deviltry

The award-winning sword and sorcery classic that introduced Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, from a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy. First in the influential fan-favorite series, Swords and Deviltry collects four fantastical adventure stories from Fritz Leiber, the author who coined the phrase "e;sword and sorcery"e; and helped birth an entire genre. In "e;Induction,"e; in the realm of Nehwon, fate brings young prince Fafhrd and apprentice magician the Gray Mouser together to mark the beginning of a loyal and lifelong friendship. Consumed by his wicked mother's enchantments, Fafhrd finds freedom by pursuing the love of a beautiful actress in the Nebula and Hugo Award nominated "e;The Snow Women."e; Studying sorcery under a great wizard in a land where it is forbidden, Mouse crosses the thin line between white and black magic to avenge a great wrong in "e;The Unholy Grail."e; And in the Nebula and Hugo Award winning novella "e;Ill Met in Lankhmar,"e; Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser disguise themselves as beggars to infiltrate the Thieves' Guild only to pay a horrible price for their greed when they come face-to-face with a monstrous evil. "e;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 and the eerie creations of a master fantasist."e; Harlan Ellison