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==Selected works== <!-- given that we have [[Fritz Leiber bibliography]], this is long. Why not more selective? What is its scope? is there a guiding idea of the selection? See TALK--> {{Main|Fritz Leiber bibliography}} ===Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series=== # ''[[Two Sought Adventure]]'' (1958). Collection of six short stories. Later expanded and retitled as ''Swords Against Death''. # ''[[Swords and Deviltry]]'' (1970). Collection of 3 short stories. # ''[[Swords Against Death]]'' (1970). Collection of 10 short stories; an expanded edition of ''Two Sought Adventure'' # ''[[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 (magazine)|Fantastic]]'', 1963. # ''[[Swords and Ice Magic]]'' (1977). Collection of 8 short stories. (Though see ''Rime Isle'' below.) # ''[[The Knight and Knave of Swords]]'' (1988). Collection of 4 short stories. Retitled ''Farewell to Lankhmar'' (2000, UK). # ''Ill Met In Lankhmar'' (Copyright 1970, published in book format 1996, The Science Fiction Collection Book Club.) ===Novels and novellas=== * ''[[Conjure Wife]]'' (originally appeared in ''[[Unknown (magazine)|Unknown Worlds]]'', April 1943) β This novel relates a college professor's discovery that his wife (and many other women) are regularly using [[magic (paranormal)|magic]] against and for one another and their husbands. * ''Gather, Darkness!'' (serialized in ''[[Astounding (magazine)|Astounding]]'', May, June, and July 1943) β a dystopian, satirical depiction of a future [[theocracy]] and the revolution that brings it down. * ''[[Destiny Times Three]]'' (1945, first in ''[[Astounding (magazine)|Astounding]]'') (reprinted 1957 as [[Galaxy Science Fiction Novels|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 Night of the Long Knives'' (''Amazing Science Fiction Stories'', January 1960) * ''[[The Big Time (novel)|The Big Time]]'' (expanded 1961 from a version serialized in ''[[Galaxy (magazine)|Galaxy]]'', March and April 1958, which won a [[Hugo Award|Hugo]]) β Change War series. Also available in ''Ship of Shadows'' (1979) β see Collections below. * ''The Silver Eggheads'' (1961; a shorter version was published in ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' in 1959) * ''[[The Wanderer (Leiber novel)|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, a revised version was issued as ''The Sinful Ones'') * ''[[Our Lady of Darkness]]'' (1977) This novel, the title of which is drawn from [[Thomas de Quincey]]'s ''[[Suspiria de Profundis]]'', was published the same year as the release of [[Dario Argento]]'s ''[[Suspiria]]'', which referenced the same idea in de Quincey. It also makes fictional reference to fellow novelists [[Jack London]], [[Clark Ashton Smith]] and [[H. P. Lovecraft]] and others. * ''Rime Isle'' (1977) (somewhere between a [[novella]] and a two-[[Novella|novelette]] collection, composed of "The Frost Monstreme" and "Rime Isle" offered as a unitary volume) * ''Ervool'' (Cheap Street, 1980βlimited ed of 200 numbered copies). A standalone edition of a short story originally published in the 1940s fanzine ''The Acolyte''. * ''The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich'' (1997) β [[H. P. Lovecraft]]ian novella written in 1936 and lost for decades * ''Dark Ladies'' (NY: Tor Books, 1999). Omnibus edition of ''[[Conjure Wife]]'' and ''Our Lady of Darkness'' ===Collections=== * ''[[Night's Black Agents]]'' (Arkham House, 1947). Reprinted by Berkley, 1978 with the addition of two stories β "The Girl With the Hungry Eyes" and "A Bit of the Dark World". The definitive hardcover edition is the Gregg Press (1980) edition, which adds a foreword by [[Richard Powers]] to the complete contents of the Berkley edition. * ''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. (Introduction by [[Poul Anderson]], "The Wizard of Nehwon") * ''[[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]]'' (Ace Books, 1976). Collection of 22 short stories including "[[Catch That Zeppelin!]]". * ''[[Bazaar of the Bizarre (collection)|Bazaar of the Bizarre]]'' (1978) * ''[[Heroes and Horrors]]'' (1978). Collection of 9 stories. * ''Ship of Shadows'' (1979). Collection of 5 award-winning short stories [ 3 stories 2 novellas & 1 novel''The BigTime''.] <ref>Victor Gollancz [publisher] Dust Jacket bio.</ref> * ''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) * ''Farewell to Lankhmar'' (White Wolf Publishing, 1999, {{ISBN|1-56504-897-0}}) * ''The Black Gondolier'' (2000) Collection of 18 short stories. * ''Smoke Ghost and Other Apparitions'' (2002) Collection of 18 short stories. * ''Day Dark, Night Bright'' (Collection of 20 short stories, 2002) * ''Horrible Imaginings'' (2004) Collection of 15 short stories. * ''Strange Wonders'' (Subterranean Press, 2010). Edited by [[Benjamin Szumskyj]]. Collection of 48 unpublished and uncollected works (drafts, fragments, poems, essays, and a play). * ''Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories'' (Night Shade Books, 2010). Edited by [[Jonathan Strahan]] and [[Charles N. Brown]]. Collection of 17 stories, with an introduction by [[Neil Gaiman]]. ===Plays=== * ''Quicks Around the Zodiac: A Farce''. (Newcastle, VA: Cheap Street, 1983). (Reprinted in ''Strange Wonders'', 2010). ===Essays=== * ''The Mystery of the Japanese Clock''. A standalone essay on the workings of a digital Japanese clock. Montgolfier Press, 1982, with Introduction by his son [[Justin Leiber]]. (Reprinted in ''Strange Wonders'', 2010). ===Poetry=== * ''Demons of the Upper Air'' (Glendale, CA: Roy A. Squires, 1969). * '' Sonnets to Jonquil and All'' (Glendale, CA: Roy A. Squires, 1978). ===Screen adaptations=== ''Conjure Wife'' has been made into feature films four times under other titles: * ''[[Weird Woman]]'' (1944) starring [[Lon Chaney Jr.]] One of six Inner Sanctum mystery films made by Universal Studios based upon the old [[Inner Sanctum Mystery|Inner Sanctum]] radio series. * ''Conjure Wife'' was also adapted for the 1960 TV series ''Moment of Fear'' (episode title "The Accomplice") * ''[[Night of the Eagle]]'' (also known as ''Burn, Witch, Burn!'') (1962) (screenplay by [[Charles Beaumont]], [[Richard Matheson]] and [[George Baxt]], directed by [[Sidney Hayers]], produced by Albert Fennell) * ''[[Witches' Brew (film)|Witches' Brew]]'' (also known as ''Which Witch is Which?'') (1980) Directed by Richard Shore and starring [[Teri Garr]] and [[Richard Benjamin]]. [[The Girl with the Hungry Eyes (1995 film)|"The Girl with the Hungry Eyes" was filmed under that title]] by Kastenbaum Films in 1995. (This film is not to be confused with the 1967 William Rotsler film ''[[The Girl with the Hungry Eyes (1967 film)|The Girl with the Hungry Eyes]]'' which is entirely unrelated to Leiber's story). Two Leiber stories were filmed for TV for [[Rod Serling]]'s ''[[Night Gallery]]''. These were "The Girl with the Hungry Eyes" (1970) (adapted by Robert M. Young and directed by John Badham) and "The Dead Man" (adapted and directed by Douglas Heyes).
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