Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. was one of the more interesting of the young writers who came into HP Lovecraft's orbit, and some of his best early short fiction is horror rather than sf or fantasy. He found his mature voice early in the first of the sword-and-sorcery adventures featuring the large sensitive barbarian Fafhrd and the small street-smart-ish Gray Mouser; he returned to this series at various points in his career, using it sometimes for farce and sometimes for gloomy mood pieces—The Swords of Lankhmar is perhaps the best single volume of their adventures. Leiber's science fiction includes the planet-smashing The Wanderer in which a large cast mostly survive flood, fire, and the sexual attentions of feline aliens, and the satirical A Spectre is Haunting Texas in which a gangling, exo-skeleton-clad actor from the Moon leads a revolution and finds his true love. Leiber's late short fiction, and the fine horror novel Our Lady of Darkness, combine autobiographical issues like his struggle with depression and alcoholism with meditations on the emotional content of the fantastic genres. Leiber's capacity for endless self-reinvention and productive self-examination kept him, until his death, one of the most modern of his sf generation. Used These Alternate Names: Maurice Breçon, Fric Lajber, Fritz Leiber, Jr., Fritz R. Leiber, Fritz Leiber Jun., Фриц Лейбер, F. Lieber, フリッツ・ライバー
Series
Books
La casa de Cthulhu y otros relatos de horror
1977
The Jewels in the Forest
2017
The First Book of Lankhmar
2000
Swords and Ice Magic
1977
The Cloud of Hate
2017
Bread Overhead
1958
The Worlds of Fritz Leiber
1976
Dark Ladies
1991
A Pail of Air
1951
Day Dark, Night Bright
2002
Destiny Times Three
1945
Thieves' House
Tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
2001
The Last Letter
2011
The Moon Is Green
1952
Swords Against Wizardry
1968
The Black Gondolier and Other Stories
1998
Cats in Space and Other Places
1992
Conjure Wife
1943
The Silver Eggheads
1961
The Book of Fritz Leiber
1974
Horrible Imaginings
2004
You're All Alone
1972
The Big Time
1958
Night Monsters
1953
The Best of Fritz Leiber
1974
The Snowbank Orbit
2020
Gonna Roll the Bones
1967
The Knight and Knave of Swords
1988
Ill Met in Lakhmar/The Fair in Emain Macha
1985
The Ghost Light
1984
The Big Engine
1972
Lankhmar
Tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
2003
The Green Millennium
1953
Our Lady of Darkness
1977
Coming Attraction
1950
Adept's Gambit
The Original Version
1947
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold
1966
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy
2020
Ill Met in Lankhmar and Ship of Shadows
Two Novellas
2016
The Best of the Nebulas
1989
The Leiber Chronicles
1990
No Great Magic
1963
Yesterday House
2016
Sword & Sorcery
L'epopea di Fafhrd e del Gray Mouser
1992
Appointment in Tomorrow
2016
Колір зла
1987
The Night of the Long Knives
1960
Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
Cloud of Hate and Other Stories
2016
The Second Book of Fritz Leiber
1975
Ships to the Stars, A Collection of Stories
1964
Strange Wonders
A Collection of Rare Fritz Leiber Works
2010
Smoke Ghost
& Other Apparitions
2002
The Secret Songs
1968
The Swords of Lankhmar
1968
The Creature from Cleveland Depths
1962
The Sword & Sorcery Anthology
2012
The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich
1996
Ill Met in Lankhmar
1970
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964
1970
Swords Against Death
1970
The Lords of Quarmall
2014
Kreativity for Kats
1992
The Night of the Wolf
1966
Space-Time for Springers
1958
Shadows With Eyes
1962
Swords and Deviltry
1970
Spectre is Haunting Texas
1968
Gummitch and Friends
1992
Blood Is Not Enough
17 Stories of Vampirism
1989
Two Sought Adventure
1957
The Wanderer
1964
Streghe! Malie e misfatti (ovvero abomini e sortilegi) delle figlie della notte
2021
Bullet With His Name
2016
The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories
1987
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction
2010
Swords in the Mist
1968
The Night of the Long Knives and Other Works
2009
Short Science Fiction Collection 001
2007
The Sinful Ones
1950
The Pale Brown Thing
1977
What's He Doing in There?
1957
Gather, Darkness!
1943
