Reading Lankhmar in Publication Order 0
Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories are considered by many to be the epitome of the sword & sorcery genre. Though not the first to write in this genre (one can point to Howard and others), Leiber named it and gave it many of its popular conventions in this very series.
I am entirely unsatisfied that modern readers approaching the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser tales are getting an optimal impression of their greatness. I believe that the way the stories have been collected, supplemented, and (re)organized into seven volumes does them a disservice. So I have decided to reconstruct the experience of reading them in published order for myself.
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