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

Swords and Deviltry, the first short story collection exclusively featuring Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are two sword-and-sorcery heroes appearing in stories written by American author Fritz Leiber.

In 1936, Leiber finished the first Fafhrd and Gray Mouser novella, Adept's Gambit, and began work on a second, The Tale of the Grain Ships.

The two who most influence — and, some would say, cause the most trouble for — Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are their sorcerous advisors, Ningauble of the Seven Eyes and Sheelba of the Eyeless Face.

* A collection, Bazaar of the Bizarre, illustrated by Stephan Peregrine, comprised Leiber's three favourite Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories: " Bazaar of the Bizarre ", " The Cloud of Hate ", and " Lean Times in Lankhmar ".

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser premiering in DC Comics in 1972.

Marvel Comics created their own version of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, when they introduced the Vanir Fafnir and his companion Blackrat to the Conan comics.

In 1986 Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser were featured in a 1-on-1 Adventure Gamebook set, Dragonsword of Lankhmar.

One player controlled Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, who were trying to find a magical sword beneath an altar ( just which one, they were not sure ) in Lankhmar.

In Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are parodied as Bravd and the Weasel.

In Issue # 77 and # 78 of Vertigo Comic's Fables, characters Freddy ( Fafhrd ) and Mouse ( Gray Mouser ) are incorporated as local rogues who unleash an Old Sorcerer into the world.

* Review of Chaykin and Mignola ’ s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser adaptation at The Daily Cross Hatch, from May 17, 2007

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.

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.

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.

Lankhmar is a fictional city in the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories by Fritz Leiber.

The Thieves ' Guild is influential, too, and controls Lankhmar's abundant criminal element, with the notable exceptions of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.

The TSR game is for 2-4 players, each of whom takes a hero ( Fafhrd, the Gray Mouser, Pulgh, or Movarl ) and leads the forces of one of the powers of Nehwon in an effort to capture the opponents ' citadels.

This oppositional stance is unusual for the series, though there were a few times in the stories where Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser were temporarily committed to opposing sides.

The New Adventures of Fafhrd and Gray Mouser ( 1996 ) was a boxed set that replaced Lankhmar, City of Adventure and could be used as an AD & D supplement or a standalone RPG with simplified AD & D rules.

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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.

Fafhrd is a tall ( seven feet ) northern barbarian ; Mouser is a small, mercurial thief, once known as Mouse and a former wizard's apprentice.

Fafhrd talks like a romantic, but his strong practicality usually wins through, while the cynical-sounding Mouser is prone to showing strains of sentiment at unexpected times.

## Ill Met in Lankhmar ( novella 1970 F & SF )— telling how Fafhrd and the Mouser met, this story won both a Nebula award and a Hugo award

In 1972, Fafhrd and the Mouser began their comics career, appearing in Wonder Woman # 202 alongside the title character and Catwoman in a story scripted by award-winning SF writer Samuel R. Delany.

The popularity of wererats in modern fantasy may have been pioneered by the Fafhrd and Grey Mouser novel The Swords of Lankhmar by fantasy Grandmaster Fritz Leiber.

It is stated that the two main protagonists, Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser " travelled through universes and lands " and eventually going on to say they ended up back on the fictional city of Lankhmar.

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.

These included two " Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser " stories by Fritz Leiber ( in # 1 and # 3 ), two " Dying Earth " stories by Jack Vance ( in vols.

TSR released a setting based on the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories by Fritz Leiber.

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.

Unlike Grayswandir, Graywand has no magical properties, or even identity as a unique artifact ; rather, Fafhrd bestows this name on any longsword he happens to possess and use.

Fafhrd commonly uses a sword which he names Graywand.

" In an interview in 1986, Ken St Andre stated that " my conception of the T & T world was based on The Lord of The Rings as it would have been done by Marvel Comics in 1974 with Conan, Elric, the Gray Mouser and a host of badguys thrown in.

Fischer also wrote " The Childhood and Youth of the Gray Mouser ", published in 1978.

This unfinished fragment depicts the Gray Mouser in Rome during the reign of the Emperor Claudius.

* Harry Otto Fischer's short story, " The Childhood and Youth of the Gray Mouser ," was published in 1978 in The Dragon # 18.

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.