The award-winning sword and sorcery classic that introduced Fafhrd and
the Gray Mouser, from a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
First in the influential fan-favorite series, Swords and Deviltry
collects four fantastical adventure stories from Fritz Leiber, the
author who coined the phrase "sword and sorcery" and helped birth an
entire genre.
In "Induction," in the realm of Nehwon, fate brings young prince Fafhrd
and apprentice magician the Gray Mouser together to mark the beginning
of a loyal and lifelong friendship. Consumed by his wicked mother's
enchantments, Fafhrd finds freedom by pursuing the love of a beautiful
actress in the Nebula and Hugo Award-nominated "The Snow Women."
Studying sorcery under a great wizard in a land where it is forbidden,
Mouse crosses the thin line between white and black magic to avenge a
great wrong in "The Unholy Grail." And in the Nebula and Hugo
Award-winning novella "Ill Met in Lankhmar," Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
disguise themselves as beggars to infiltrate the Thieves' Guild--only to
pay a horrible price for their greed when they come face-to-face with a
monstrous evil.