Fritz Leiber bibliography

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)


 * 1) The Three Swords Omnibus of books 1-3
 * 2) The Sword's Masters Omnibus of books 4-6

Novels/Novellas



 * Conjure Wife (originally appeared in Unknown Worlds, April 1943) — This novel relates a college professor's discovery that his wife (and many other women) are regularly using magic against and for one another and their husbands.
 * Gather, Darkness! (serialized in Astounding, May, June, and July 1943)
 * Destiny Times Three (1945) (reprinted 1952 as Galaxy Novel number 28)
 * The Sinful Ones (1953), an adulterated version of You're All Alone (1950 Fantastic Adventures abridged); Leiber rewrote the inserted passages and saw published a revised edition in 1980.
 * The Green Millennium (1953)
 * The Big Time (expanded 1961 from a version serialized in Galaxy, March and April 1958, which won a Hugo) — Change War series
 * The Night of the Long Knives (Amazing Science Fiction Stories, January 1960)
 * The Silver Eggheads (1961; a shorter version was published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1959)
 * The Wanderer (1964)
 * Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966) (novelisation of a Clair Huffaker screenplay)
 * A Specter Is Haunting Texas (1969)
 * You're All Alone (1972) (the first book edition includes two shorter works as well, reprinted as The Sinful Ones)
 * Our Lady of Darkness (1977)
 * Rime Isle (1977) (somewhere between a novella and a two-novelette collection, composed of "The Frost Monstreme" and "Rime Isle" offered as a unitary volume)
 * The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich (1997) — H. P. Lovecraftian novella written in 1936 and lost for decades

Collections

 * Night's Black Agents (1947)
 * Two Sought Adventure (1957)
 * The Mind Spider and Other Stories (1961). Collection of 6 short stories.
 * Shadows With Eyes (1962). Collection of 6 short stories.
 * A Pail of Air (1964). Collection of 11 short stories.
 * Ships to the Stars (1964). Collection of 6 short stories.
 * The Night of the Wolf (1966). Collection of 4 short stories.
 * The Secret Songs (1968). Collection of 11 short stories.
 * Night Monsters (1969). Collection of 4 short stories. UK (1974) edition drops 1 story and adds 4.
 * The Best of Fritz Leiber (1974). Collection of 22 short stories.
 * The Book of Fritz Leiber (1974). Collection of 10 stories and 9 articles.
 * The Second Book of Fritz Leiber (1975). Collection of 4 stories, 1 play, and 6 articles.
 * The Worlds of Fritz Leiber (1976). Collection of 22 stories, no overlap with 'Best of' or the two 'Books of'.
 * Bazaar of the Bizarre (1978)
 * Heroes and Horrors (1978). Collection of 9 stories.
 * Ship of Shadows (1979). Collection of 5 short stories & novel The Big Time. Paperback (1982) drops 1 story.
 * Changewar (1983). Collection of the Changewar short stories (7 stories).
 * The Ghost Light (1984). Collection of 9 stories with illustrations and an autobiographic essay with photographs.
 * The Leiber Chronicles (1990) Collection of 44 short stories.
 * Gummitch and Friends (1992). Leiber's cat stories, the first five of which feature Gummitch.
 * Ill Met in Lankhmar (White Wolf Publishing, 1995, ISBN 1-56504-926-8) combines Swords and Deviltry (1970) and Swords Against Death (1970).
 * Lean Times in Lankhmar (White Wolf Publishing, 1996, ISBN 1-56504-927-6) combines Swords in the Mist (1970) and Swords Against Wizardry (1970)
 * Return to Lankhmar (White Wolf Publishing, 1997, ISBN 1-56504-928-4) combines The Swords of Lankhmar (1968) and Swords and Ice Magic (1977)
 * Dark Ladies (NY: Tor Books, 1999). Omnibus edition of Conjure Wife and Our Lady of Darkness
 * The Black Gondolier (2000). Collection of 18 short stories.
 * Smoke Ghost and Other Apparitions (2002). Collection of 18 short stories.
 * Day Dark, Night Bright (2002). Collection of 20 short stories.
 * Horrible Imaginings (2004). Collection of 15 short stories.
 * Strange Wonders (Subterranean Press, 2010). Collection of 48 unpublished and uncollected works (drafts, fragments, poems, essays, and a play).

Plays

 * Quicks Around the Zodiac: A Farce. (Newcastle, VA: Cheap Street, 1983).

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"