Fritz Leiber bibliography
Appearance
This is a bibliography of works by Fritz Leiber.
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series
[edit]- Swords and Deviltry (1970). Collection of 3 short stories.
- Swords Against Death (1970). Collection of 10 short stories.
- Swords in the Mist (1968). Collection of 6 short stories.
- Swords Against Wizardry (1968). Collection of 4 short stories.
- The Swords of Lankhmar (1968) (expanded from "Scylla's Daughter" in Fantastic, 1963)
- Swords and Ice Magic (1977). Collection of 8 short stories. (Though see Rime Isle below.)
- The Knight and Knave of Swords (1988) Retitled Farewell to Lankhmar (1998, US/2000, UK)
- The Three Swords Omnibus of books 1-3
- The Sword's Masters Omnibus of books 4-6
Novels/Novellas
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Quicks Around the Zodiac: A Farce. (Newcastle, VA: Cheap Street, 1983).
Short stories
[edit]- 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"