![]() ![]() I’m not aware of any historical society that had anything like a Thieves Guild, but sword and sorcery writers love the idea. The city is ruled, de facto, by the Thieves Guild. The story starts with Fafhrd and Gray Mouser independently ambushing a party of thieves in the smoggy city of Lankhmar. Leiber started his Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series in 1939, but it wasn’t until 1970, with this story, that he told how the two met. ![]() ![]() Review: “ Ill Met in Lankhmar”, Fritz Leiber, 1970. But, to date, I’ve been unimpressed with his sword and sorcery. I’m a fan of much of Leiber’s science fiction, and his horror and weird fiction was very innovative. I’ve been bouncing off the appeal of Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser since first encountering them in grade school in “The Sadness of the Executioner” in Lin Carter’s Flashing Swords #1 anthology. This week’s weird fiction I approached with a sigh and a bit of trepidation. ![]()
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