It can also be noted that in its frequent depictions of smoky taverns and smelly back alleys, sword and sorcery draws upon the picaresque genre ; for example, Fritz Leiber's city of Lankhmar bears considerable similarity to 16th Century Seville as depicted in Cervantes ' tale Rinconete y Cortadillo.

* Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser sequence, beginning with " Two Sought Adventure " ( 1939 ).

* White Wolf: Ill Met In Lankhmar ( 1995 ; books 1 and 2, with a new introduction by Michael Moorcock and Fritz Leiber's " Fafhrd and Me "), Lean Times in Lankhmar ( 1996 ; books 3 and 4, with a new introduction by Karl Edward Wagner ), Return to Lankhmar ( 1997 ; books 5 and 6, with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman ), and Farewell to Lankhmar ( 1998 ; book 7 ; the hardcover edition omits the final seven chapters of " The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars ")

The pairs of characters were very much alike and Roy Thomas, who wrote the original Conan comics, made no secret that it was his intention to create characters that were a tribute to Fritz Leiber's creations.

Some science fiction and fantasy books also show a clear picaresque influence, transported to a variety of invented worlds — for example, The Dying Earth series of Jack Vance, Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Harry Harrison's The Stainless Steel Rat series, James H. Schmitz's The Witches of Karres and L. Sprague de Camp's Novarian series.

Nifft showed that Shea had developed the exotic style of Vance ( perhaps influenced by Clark Ashton Smith ) plus the ingenuity of Fritz Leiber's Gray Mouser stories to produce an extravagant quest novel.

The series, originally designed to provide some social and descriptive details about Gygax's Greyhawk campaign world that he had not been able to fit into the limited space of either the 1980 folio edition or the 1983 boxed set, were written in a pulp swords and sorcery style reminiscent of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser short stories.

* Fritz Leiber's " Ill Met in Lankhmar " won the 1970 Nebula Award for Best Novella and the 1971 Hugo Award for Best Novella ( 1970 ).

In Fritz Leiber's Hugo Award-nominated short story " Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-TAH-Tee " ( 1959 ), the title describes an rhythmic drumbeat so powerful that it rapidly spreads to all areas of human culture, until a counter-rhythm is developed which acts as an antidote.

* Nehwon mythos ( from Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar novels )

The original edition covered 12 pantheons of gods from myth and folklore, plus gods for various nonhumans, and four fictional groups: the Arthurian heroes, Fritz Leiber's " Nehwon mythos ", Michael Moorcock's " Melnibonéan mythos ", and H. P.

Other notable stories included several well-received novels by L. Ron Hubbard and short stories such as Manly Wade Wellman's " When It Was Moonlight " and Fritz Leiber's " Two Sought Adventure ", the first in his Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series.

The name Grayswandir echoes that of Graywand, the longsword of Fafhrd in Fritz Leiber's tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, a likeness that may or may not be coincidental.

Jones painted covers for books, including the Ace paperback editions of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series and Andre Norton's Postmarked the Stars, The Zero Stone, Uncharted Stars and many others.

DC Comics responded with Warlord, Beowulf, and Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.

By 1950, sword and sorcery had begun to find a wide audience, with the success of Howard's Conan the Barbarian, and Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories.

Based on the now stereotypical pairing of a big, strong warrior and a small, sly thief first established by Fritz Leiber's classic stories of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Westala and Villtin are mercenaries of dubious morality but a strong code of honour.

Sheelba of the Eyeless Face is one of two wizards in Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.

Ningauble of the Seven Eyes is one of two wizards in Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.

: Winner: Our Lady of Darkness, Fritz Leiber

These include novels Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin and Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber, as well as films such as Rosemary's Baby, The Devil's Rain, The Car, and Dr. Dracula.

At the age of five, Adams starred in a San Francisco theater as " Little Schneider " in Fritz, Our German Cousin and as " Adrienne Renaud " in A Celebrated Case.

* The tower is an important presence in the 1977 San Francisco horror novel Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber.

* Our Lady of Darkness, a 1977 book, by Fritz Leiber, that contains a description of ' Megapolisomancy ', a fictional occult science.

At the age of 15 he makes an appearance and is credited as " Mose " the bellboy in the 1940 Fritz Lang directed The Return of Frank James with Henry Fonda and fellow child star ( and Our Gang alumnus ) Jackie Cooper ( see IMDB " full cast and crew ").

Our Lady of Darkness ( 1977 ) by Fritz Leiber is a book containing a description of " Megapolisomancy ", a fictional occult science.

Frank Peter Zimmermann plays a Stradivarius known as the Lady Inchiquin, from 1711, which once belonged to Fritz Kreisler, and is sponsored by the Westdeutsche Landesbank.

* Gather, Darkness by Fritz Leiber ( 1943 )

Unlike the strip, which focused most of all on the gruesomely amusing antics of Hans and Fritz, the MGM cartoons often centered around the Captain.

The tactics and attitudes of this grouping including Fritz Teufel were in contrast to the more serious, revolutionary rhetoric and actions of other groups centred around the SDS and figures like Rudi Dutschke.

Bacon likely saw Fritz Lang's Metropolis around this time.

With production costs increasing, Yates organised Republic's output into four types of films: " Jubilee ", usually a western shot in seven days for about $ 50, 000 ; " Anniversary ", filmed in 14 to 15 days for $ 175, 000 to $ 200, 000 ; " Deluxe ", major productions made with a budget of around $ 500, 000 ; and " Premiere ", which were usually made by top-rank directors who did not usually work for Republic, such as John Ford, Fritz Lang and Frank Borzage, and which could have a budget of $ 1, 000, 00 or more.

Neither organization really managed to attract a large member base, though ; it is estimated that the order had around 300 members, the most prominent of which was the poet Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando.

The KAPD was unable to reach even its founding Congress prior to suffering its first split when the so-called National Bolshevik tendency around Fritz Wolffheim and Heinrich Laufenberg appeared ( it should be noted that this tendency has no connection with modern political tendencies in Russia which use the same name ).

Marty Pahls, Crumb's childhood friend, describes Fritz as " a poseur ", whose posturing was taken seriously by everyone around him.

" Rothschild concluded that, " Even though Fritz the Cat is a classic, there are better, more coherent Crumb books around.

Similar ideas were also coming from Germany's neighbour, Austria, at around this time, namely from two anthropologist Roman Catholic priests, Fritz Graebner and Wilhelm Schmidt, as well as by the archaeologist Oswald Menghin.

Sound was sent around the space in three dimensions using either a spherical controller designed by Fritz Winckel of the Electronic Music Studio at the Technical University of Berlin, or a ten-channel " rotation mill " constructed to Stockhausen's design.

In a voiceover for the memorial, Gray determines that she never fully knew Grady, and while mourning him, has come to have feelings for the one person that they both could be themselves around: Fritz.

Fritz turns around and sees her.

He began to publish his work, which was written in Low German, around 1910, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of fellow Low German author Fritz Reuter.

But he owes money to island gang leader Ritchie Ritch ( Raz Adoti ), and when he peeks in on Pippa's father unwrapping a massive amount of cash that he had taped around his torso, Fritz begins scheming.

As explained by the Telegraph in London on Sept. 18, 2009, “ The orchestra ’ s rise to fame began with the great Fritz Reiner in the Fifties, but it was during the 22-year reign of the fierce Hungarian Georg Solti that the orchestra became the brawny yet subtle precision instrument that it is today, famed especially for its noble and stupendously powerful brass sound .” A Smithsonian profile of Herseth, published Sept. 1, 1994, offered this description: “ The Chicago has long been recognized as one of the world ’ s great orchestras, and Adolph Sylvester Herseth has had a major role in the evolution of its distinctive sound .” As described in the Chicago Sun-Times, July 22, 2001, “ For decades Herseth's rich, golden tone and powerful yet expressive playing were a cornerstone of the fabled ‘ Chicago Sound .’” That brass sound drew worldwide attention to the CSO, and propelled the great American orchestra ’ s reputation around the globe.

The double horn was conceived by Edmund Gumpert, third horn in Meiningen, and refined and patented around 1900 by Fritz Kruspe.

Fritz Egli, a specialist frame manufacturer based in Switzerland, produced an Egli-Vincent, and around 100 were produced between 1967 and 1972.