Fritz Leiber bibliography explained

This is a bibliography of works by Fritz Leiber.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series

  1. Swords and Deviltry (1970). Collection of 3 short stories.
  2. Swords Against Death (1970). Collection of 10 short stories.
  3. Swords in the Mist (1968). Collection of 6 short stories.
  4. Swords Against Wizardry (1968). Collection of 4 short stories.
  5. The Swords of Lankhmar (1968) (expanded from "Scylla's Daughter" in Fantastic, 1963)
  6. Swords and Ice Magic (1977). Collection of 8 short stories. (Though see Rime Isle below.)
  7. The Knight and Knave of Swords (1988) Retitled Farewell to Lankhmar (1998, US/2000, UK)
  8. The Three Swords Omnibus of books 1-3
  9. The Sword's Masters Omnibus of books 4-6

Novels/Novellas

Collections

Plays

Short stories

1939
  • "Two Sought Adventure" aka "The Jewels in the Forest" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
    1940
  • "The Automatic Pistol"
  • "The Bleak Shore" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
    1941
  • "The Howling Tower" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
  • "The Power of the Puppets"
  • "Smoke Ghost"
  • "They Never Come Back"
    1942
  • "The Hill and the Hole"
  • "The Hound"
  • "The Phantom Slayer" - aka "The Inheritance"
  • "Spider Mansion"
  • "The Sunken Land" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
    1943
  • "The Mutant's Brother"
  • "Thieves' House" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
  • "To Make a Roman Holiday"
    1944
  • "Business of Killing"
  • "Sanity" aka "Crazy Wolf"
  • "Taboo"
  • "Thought"
    1945
  • "The Dreams of Albert Moreland"
  • "Wanted — An Enemy"
    1946
  • "Alice and the Allergy"
  • "Mr. Bauer and the Atoms"
    1947
  • "Adept's Gambit" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
  • "Diary in the Snow"
  • "The Man Who Never Grew Young"
    1949
  • "The Girl with the Hungry Eyes" — vampire story
  • "In the X-Ray"
    1950
  • "The Black Ewe"
  • "Coming Attraction"
  • "The Dead Man"
  • "The Enchanted Forest"
  • "Later Than You Think"
  • "Let Freedom Ring" aka "The Wolf Pack"
  • "The Lion and the Lamb"
  • "Martians, Keep Out!"
  • "The Ship Sails at Midnight"
  • "You're All Alone"
    1951
  • "Appointment in Tomorrow" aka "Poor Superman"
  • "Cry Witch!"
  • "Dark Vengeance" aka "Claws from the Night" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
  • "Nice Girl with Five Husbands"
  • "A Pail of Air"
  • "When the Last Gods Die"
    1952
  • "Dr. Kometevsky's Day"
  • "The Foxholes of Mars" — appeared in the 1969 anthology The War Book, edited by James Sallis.
  • "I'm Looking for "Jeff""
  • "The Moon Is Green"
  • "Yesterday House"
    1953
  • "A Bad Day for Sales"
  • "The Big Holiday"
  • "The Night He Cried" — a notable sf pastiche of Mickey Spillane
  • "The Seven Black Priests" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
    1954
  • "The Mechanical Bride" (play)
  • "The Silence Game"
    1957
  • "The Big Trek"
  • "Femmequin 973"
  • "Friends and Enemies"
  • "Last"
  • "Time Fighter"
  • "Time in the Round"
  • "What's He Doing in There?"
    1958
  • "The Big Time" (short novel) — Change War story
  • "Bread Overhead"
  • "Bullet With His Name"
  • "A Deskful of Girls" — Change War story
  • "The Last Letter"
  • "Little Old Miss Macbeth"
  • "Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-TAH-Tee"
  • "Space-Time for Springers" — first Gummitch story
  • "Try and Change the Past" — Change War story
    1959
  • "Damnation Morning" — Change War story
  • "The House of Mrs. Delgado"
  • "The Improper Authorities"
  • "Lean Times in Lankhmar" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
  • "The Number of the Beast" — Change War story
  • "The Mind Spider" — Cthulhu Mythos story
  • "MS Found in a Maelstrom"
  • "Our Saucer Vacation"
  • "Pipe Dream"
  • "Psychosis from Space"
  • "The Reward"
  • "The Silver Eggheads" (novella, later expanded to book-length)
  • "Tranquility, Or Else!" aka "The Haunted Future"
    1960
  • "Deadly Moon"
  • "Mariana"
  • "The Night of the Long Knives" aka "The Wolf Pair"
  • "The Oldest Soldier" — Change War story
  • "Rats of Limbo"
  • "Schizo Jimmie"
  • "When the Sea-King's Away" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
    1961
  • "All the Weed in the World"
  • "The Beat Cluster"
  • "The Goggles of Dr. Dragonet"
  • "Hatchery of Dreams"
  • "Kreativity for Kats" — Gummitch story
  • "Scream Wolf"
  • "Scylla's Daughter" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
  • "A Visitor from Back East"
    1962
  • "The 64-Square Madhouse"
  • "The Big Engine" (shortened revision of "You're All Alone")
  • "A Bit of the Dark World"
  • "The Creature from Cleveland Depths" aka "The Lone Wolf"
  • "The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity"
  • "Mirror"
  • "The Moriarty Gambit"
  • "The Secret Songs"
  • "The Snowbank Orbit"
  • "The Thirteenth Step"
  • "The Unholy Grail" — Gray Mouser story
    1963
  • "237 Talking Statues, Etc."
  • "Bazaar of the Bizarre" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
  • "The Casket-Demon"
  • "The Cloud of Hate" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
  • "Crimes Against Passion"
  • "Dr. Adams' Garden of Evil"
  • "Game for Motel Room"
  • "A Hitch in Space"
  • "Kindergarten"
  • "Myths My Great-Granddaughter Taught Me"
  • "No Great Magic" — Change War story
  • "The Spider"
  • "Success"
  • "X Marks the Pedwalk"
    1964
  • "Be of Good Cheer"
  • "The Black Gondolier"
  • "Lie Still, Snow White"
  • "The Lords of Quarmall" (with Harry O. Fischer) — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
  • "Midnight in the Mirror World"
  • "When the Change-Winds Blow" — Change War story
    1965
  • "Cyclops"
  • "Far Reach to Cygnus"
  • "Four Ghosts in Hamlet"
  • "The Good New Days"
  • "Knight's Move" aka "Knight to Move" — Change War story
  • "Moon Duel"
  • "Stardock" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
    1966
  • "The Crystal Prison"
  • "Sunk Without Trace"
  • "To Arkham and the Stars" — a Cthulhu Mythos story
    1967
  • "Answering Service"
  • "Black Corridor" — Change War story
  • "Gonna Roll the Bones" - winner of Hugo and Nebula awards.
  • "The Inner Circles" aka "The Winter Flies"
    1968
  • "Crazy Annaoj"
  • "In the Witch's Tent" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
  • "One Station of the Way"
  • "A Specter is Haunting Texas"
  • "The Square Root of Brain"
  • "Their Mistress, the Sea" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
  • "The Turned-off Heads"
  • "The Two Best Thieves in Lankhmar" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
  • "When Brahma Wakes"
  • "The Wrong Branch" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
    1969
  • "Endfray of the Ofay"
  • "Richmond, Late September, 1849"
  • "Ship of Shadows"
  • "When They Openly Walk"
    1970
  • "America the Beautiful"
  • "The Circle Curse" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
  • "Ill Met in Lankhmar" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
  • "The Price of Pain-Ease" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
  • "The Snow Women" — Fafhrd story
    1971
  • "Gold, Black, and Silver"
    1972
  • "Another Cask of Wine"
  • "The Bump"
  • "Day Dark, Night Bright"
  • "The Lotus Eaters"
    1973
  • "The Bait" — Fafhrd & Gray Mouser story
  • "Cat Three"
  • "The Sadness of the Executioner" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
  • "Trapped in the Shadowland" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
    1974
  • "Beauty and the Beasts" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
  • "Cat's Cradle" — Gummitch story
  • "Do You Know Dave Wenzel?"
  • "Midnight by the Morphy Watch"
  • "Mysterious Doings in the Metropolitan Museum"
  • "WaIF"
    1975
  • "Belsen Express"
  • "Catch That Zeppelin!"
  • "The Glove"
  • "Night Passage"
  • "Trapped in the Sea of Stars" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
  • "Under the Thumbs of the Gods" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
    1976
  • "Dark Wings"
  • "The Death of Princes"
  • "The Eeriest Ruined Dawn World"
  • "The Frost Monstreme" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
  • "The Terror from the Depths" — a Cthulhu Mythos story
    1977
  • "The Princess in the Tower 250,000 Miles High"
  • "Rime Isle" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
  • "A Rite of Spring"
  • "Sea Magic" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
    1978
  • "Black Glass"
  • "The Mer She" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
    1979
  • "The Button Molder"
  • "The Man Who Was Married to Space and Time"
    1980
  • "The Repair People"
    1981
  • "The Great San Francisco Glacier"
    1982
  • "Horrible Imaginings"
  • "The Moon Porthole"
    1983
  • "The Cat Hotel" — Gummitch story
  • "The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
    1984
  • "Black Has Its Charms"
  • "The Ghost Light"
    1988
  • "The Mouser Goes Below" — Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story
  • "Slack Lankhmar Afternoon Featuring Hisvet" — excerpt from "The Mouser Goes Below"
    1990
  • "Replacement for Wilmer: A Ghost Story"
    1993
  • "Thrice the Brinded Cat"
    2002
  • "The Enormous Bedroom