Leiber, Fritz -- Swords Against Death
Second in 1995 reprint series of all the Fahfrd and Grey Mouser
stories. It turns out I haven't read many of these. The editors put
them in chronological order, possibly filing the edges to fit, and
this must be a loss -- the opening story in this volume introduces the
duo to Sheelba and Ningauble, but it can't have been written that
early. That complaint aside, this is a delightful assemblage of evil
priests, demon-possessed architecture, ghosts, and other
not-yet-cliches-and-anyhow-Leiber-did-them-better. The range of styles
and modes is surprisingly broad.
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