#Swords and Deviltry

[mendelpalace]

The “Illustrated Fantasy Book Guide” is a magazine-format book (or mook) released in 1989 by the publisher of ファミコン必勝本 “Famicon Winning Book”, an NES gaming magazine. The mook lists 37 works of fantasy originally written in English except for “Ficciones” by Borges. The editors of “Famicon Winning Book” were fond of the Wizardry port to the NES, which is my explanation for their interest in this stuff. In any case, they created the best Appendix N so to speak of fantasy translated into Japanese that I have yet found. The Japanese titles are provided below to aid the online searches of would-be buyers.

Images/Text courtesy of Japanese Tabletop RPG

I wish I could find a complete set of scans for this book!

Full list of books featured under the cut.

The Lord of the Rings 指輪物語 Earthsea Trilogy ゲド戦記 Chronicles of Narnia ナルニア国ものがたり Conan コナン・シリーズ The Worm Ouroboros ウロボロス The Wood Beyond the World 世界のかなたの森 Lilith リリス Nine Princess in Amber アンバーの九王子 The King of Elfland’s Daughter エルフランドの王女 Gormenghast Trilogy ゴーメンガスト Magic Kingdom for Sale-Sold! 魔法の王国売ります! The Chronicles of Castle Brass ブラス城年代記 Night’s Master 闇の公子 A Voyage to Arcturus アルクトゥルスへの旅 The Princess Bride プリンセス・ブライド Witch World ウィッチ・ワールド A Spell for Chameleon カメレオンの呪文 The Last Unicorn 最後のユニコーン At the Mountains of Madness 狂気の山脈にて Swords and Deviltry ファファード＆グレイ・マウザー The White Hart アイルの書 She 洞窟の女王 Charmed Life 魔女集会通り26番地 Darkover Series ダーコーヴァ年代記 The Riddle-Master of Hed イルスの竪琴 The Sorcerer’s Ship 魔法つかいの船 Dragonlance Chronicles ラゴンランス戦記 Pawn of Prophecy ベルガリアード物語 Dragon Flight パーンの竜騎士 The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz ボアズ＝ヤキンのライオン Momo モモ The Magic Goes Away 魔法の国が消えていく Magician リフトウォー・サーガ The Ship of Ishtar イシュタルの船 Tea with the Black Dragon 黒龍とお茶を Ficciones 伝奇集 Dandelion Wine たんぽぽのお酒

#Illustrated Fantasy Book Guide #Fantasy #Art #Illustration #Fantasy Literature #The Lord of the Rings #Jun Suemi #Conan the Barbarian #Masahiko Satoh #The Wood Beyond the World #Hitoshi Yoneda #Witch World #Ikuko Basaki #At the Mountains of Madness #Norimasa Matsuhshita #The Princess Bride #Swords and Deviltry

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Swords and Deviltry Cover Art by Jeffrey Catherine Jones

#Fantasy #Art #Swords and Deviltry #Covers #Cover Art #Jeffrey Catherine Jones

[deepdarkspaceblog]

'Swords And Deviltry' Cuts Deeply With Adventure

'Sword and Deviltry' cuts to the core of fantasy adventure. It has everything you want and nothing you don't need. #fantasy #s&s #books #bookreview

Swords And Deviltry (1970) is the first collection of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories by Fritz Leiber. These stories are ripe with mayhem and adventure, to which the heroes eagerly apply themselves. Leiber has taken the lessons of early pulp writers and added skilfully written prose and vivid world building. In the world of Newhon death and danger lurk in every unseen shadow. Only the boldest…

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#Book Review #Fritz Leiber #Swords and Deviltry

[shellyseashell]

MADELEINE MIM

name: madeleine is a french name that means “woman from magdala”

nicknames: maddy

age & birthday: 17, born october 16

pronouns: she/her

sexukity: pan

height: 5’6

powers & species: her father is unknown, so she’s not exactly sure what she is, but she has at least strong demon blood. her powers include shapeshifting, aether manipulation, alchemy, and various forms of spellcasting.

mbti: entj, the commander

background: grandmother mim ignored her a lot, and her mother paid more attention to magnus than her. she doesn’t know who her father is. she’s desperate to prove she’s powerful and worth something, so she spends most of her time practicing what magic she can under the barrier. when she’s 10, magnus takes her and runs from home. eventually, she opens her apothecary, where she sells varieties of potions that include both medicine and poison.

residence: mad maddy’s apothecary

affiliation: deviltry, hallow’s eve, lost revenge, sovereign dread, healer’s guild

family: madam mim (grandmother), madelina mim (mother), unknown father, magnus mim (brother), meruen mim (sister, deceased), morley mim (aunt), moira mim (cousin), morcant mim (cousin), mallory mim (cousin, deceased), melina mim (aunt), maelegan mim (cousin, deceased), malise mim (cousin), mardella mim (cousin)

weapons: knives and probably a sword

misc:

- she has fangs and claws

- speaks english, french, latin, and welsh

- the only person she listens to is magnus.

- holds grudges literally forever

- she’s very protective of her family, and therefore is very vengeful when they’re hurt

- cold, resentful, and proud

- very good with strategy and anticipating people’s next move

- once someone has her loyalty, they have it. however, if someone breaks her trust, they’re dead to her.

- she’s the only mim to have a familiar, a black cat she saved when it was a kitten

- she does enjoy pranks, but she tries not to make them too harmful by isle standards

- she’s a very good thief but she doesn’t steal often

- has dyed her hair all sorts of colors, but she likes blue the best

#hey updated headcanons! #new design! #disney descendants #descendants headcanons #naia writes #mad maddy #maddy mim

[aristocraticelegance]

Think I might make more of an effort to log my reading for this year—these are the books I read in January. I’ve been focused on reading books I’ve already bought instead of ordering new ones from the library, so the selection will reflect that.

1. A Power Unbound, Freya Marske, 2023. Historical-Fantasy-Romance, third book in the trilogy. I enjoyed these books, mostly as low-stakes reading around the holidays, and this one wraps up the series nicely. My only issue is that I had a lot of hangups with the historical bits, which is partially because that's the sort of thing that sticks in my brain, and partially because when you are blending multiple genre conventions it's inevitable that one of them is going to get short shrift at some point. I also got stuck on the fact that the plot reinforced the idea of Italian Catholics as being Bad and Superstitious even as the Italian Catholic character keeps calling out the (presumably Anglican) Brits on their xenophobia, which I don't think was intentional. Anyways, if gay fantasy romance set in Edwardian England sounds like your thing, they're worth checking out. The setting and characters are generally a fun time.

2. Iceland's Bell, Haldór Laxness, 1943. I bought this on a total whim, based on the fact that it's historical fiction set in a time (late 16-early 1700s) and place (Iceland) that I don't usually see in English-language historical fiction. I had no idea what to expect AND I LOVED IT. It loosely follows several characters, all based on or lightly modified from historical figures: a farmer trying to get his murder verdict overturned, a noblewoman with financial and romantic problems, and a nobleman who was responsible for collecting and documenting a bunch of important old Icelandic manuscripts (including some of the Eddas, I think). He also gets involved with the first guy’s court case and is part of the second lady's romantic problems. This book slaps. The author won a nobel prize for a different book, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but man it was so good. One guy walks all over half of Northern Europe, almost dies multiple times, runs away from some Germans, generally has a real bad time. The other guy collects books and Feels Bad About Old Iceland. (Actually everyone does this). I appreciated that even though the lady is, at times, A Metaphor, she has a lot of personality and doesn't just exist to Suffer Nobly (and horribly, in a sexual way), as is the case for at least several other books I can think of that deal with the kind of Great Tale that is also A Metaphor for The Country (The Tale of Kieu, This Earth of Mankind). It helps that every man in this book is kind of useless. You should read this.

3. Swords and Deviltry, Fritz Lieber, 1970. I've been on a sword and sorcery kick lately, so I thought I should read some of the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories. I always have a hard time figuring out where to start with these kind of long-running stories, because usually the first one published isn't naratively the first story. I figured it was easier to go with the collections in order, which rearranged the stories into a narrative chronological order, which might have been the wrong decision for me. I liked these stories, but I feel like they aren't really the core of why people were drawn to the characters in the first place, since they are all prequels written after the characters were already known. I'll probably check out more later, but this collection was generally just "fine."

#books #my reading 2024 #text #fantasy #historical fiction #blogging

[70sscifiart]

Jeffrey Catherine Jones’ 1970 cover to Swords and Deviltry, by Fritz Leiber

#Jeffrey Catherine Jones #Swords and Deviltry #Fritz Leiber

[davey-dammit]

Fafhrd and Gray Mouser books

#fafhrd and gray mouser #swords and deviltry #swords against death #swords in the mist #swords against wizardry #the swords of lankhmar #swords and ice magic #fritz leiber

[sirstarryknight]

Clean cover for Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Leiber.

I couldn’t find who the artist is.

#fritz leiber #swords and deviltry #fafard and the grey mouser

[mightythorjrs]

Definitive Sword and Sorcery: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser by Fritz Leiber

Definitive Sword and Sorcery: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser by Fritz Leiber #swordandsorcery

    Welcome to my new series of post I am doing here on Mighty Thor JRS, Definitive Sword and Sorcery. At least what is definitive in my opinion. I will spotlight some of the best authors and books fantasy has ever known. I can’t wait to share these amazing books, authors, and the amazing cover art and artist. For my third post I am going to go with Fritz Leiber and his Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser 

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#book #Books #Definitive Sword and Sorcery #Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser #Fantasy #Fritz Leiber #Lankhmar #Michael Whelan #Sword and sorcery #Swords Against Death #Swords Against Wizardry #Swords and Deviltry #Swords and Ice Magic #Swords in the Mist #The Knight and Knave of Swords #The Swords of Lankhmar

[manfrommars2049]

Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Leiber was first published in 1970. The first book in the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series, it includes the story of how they met. https://ift.tt/2KPFX38

#Pulp Covers #Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Leiber was first published in 1970. The first book in the

[manyworldspress]

Jeffrey Catherine Jones, cover illustration for Swords and Deviltry, by Fritz Leiber (Ace Books, 1970).

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#jeffrey catherine jones #fritz leiber #fafhrd and the gray mouser #lankhmar #newhon #fantasy art #sword and sorcery

[gifsofarrakis]

“Paul grinned. Of all his father's men, he liked Gurney Halleck best, knew the man's moods and deviltry, his humors, and thought of him more as a friend than as a hired sword.”

-Dune, by Frank Herbert & Dune (2020) dir. Villeneuve

Gurney Halleck Appreciation Post 3/4

#dune #dune 2020 #dune gifs #dune 2021 #dune frank herbert #gurney halleck #josh brolin #i would die for him #house atreides #house harkonnen #i must not fear #THE BAGPIPES BRO #THE BAGPIPES #can’t believe it #but somehow #they made it work #objectively #a terrifying instrument

[bugbearbrothers]

Bugbear Brothers Bookclub!

Swords and Deviltry, by the father of Sword and Sorcery fiction, Fritz Leiber, is a fantasy short story collection, first published 1970, featuring his heroes Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. The book collects three short stories originally published in the magazines Fantastic for April 1970, Fantastic Stories of Imagination for October 1962, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for April 1970, together with an "Induction" that originally appeared in the 1957 Fafhrd and Gray Mouser collection “Two Sought Adventure.”

Chronologically the first adventure in the series, this collection introduces Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser and details their first meeting, as well as their home city of Lankhmar.

Lower fantasy than Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, and more nuanced than Howard’s Conan, these might be my favourite fantasy books. It was uthe Dungeons and Dragons Lankhmar modules that introduced me to this series, but I ended up reading the books before running any of the adventures.

#fritz leiber #fantasy fiction #sword and sorcery

[as-warm-as-choco]

books i got in thrift stores

(that I will probably have to leave behind before leaving Utrecht) ALSO LEAVE IMPRESSIONS IF YOU HAVE READ ANY OF THEM, so I re-decide

Cry Freedom, John Briley Life of Pi, Yann Martel Musical Bumps, `Antony Miall The Mabinogion, tr. by Gwyn Jones / Thomas Jones Otomen, Aya Kanno I come as a brother, Bartholomew Vlinders in de tuin (types of butterflies I guess) MANNA In the Wilderness of AIDS, Kenwyn K. Smith Travelling to Infinity, Jane Hawking In Fairyland: The world of Tessa Farmer Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett Wintersmith, Terry Pratchett LOTR: The Two Towers, JRR Tolkien Swords and Deviltry, Fritz Leiber The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe John Winchester’s Journal (dont @ me)

Books I will most definitely get with me: East, West, Salman Bushide THE SECRET DIARY OF LAURA PALMER An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redflied Jamison PS: YES, I HAD ZERO TIME BECAUSE OF CAPITALISM so I only have read a few pages of The Hobbit and Musical Bumps. T_______T

#books #jrr tolkien #terry pratchett #SUGGEST if you may which ones i should definitely read #anyway i make this list in hopes i will find them again in the future if they are to be left behind

[kaleidoscopic-sci-fi]

Gurney Halleck, musician and warmaster for the House of Atreides. He is a unique blend of poetry, strategy and honor. Patrick Stewart played this role in the Lynch film. Here’s hoping Josh Brolin can fill those big shoes (haha). 

Paul grinned. Of all of his father’s men, he liked Gurney Halleck best, knew the man’s moods and deviltry, his humors, and thought of him more as a friend than as a hired sword.

#Gurney Halleck #Paul Atreides #dune #dune movie #dune 2020 #frank herbert #denis villeneuve #josh brolin #Timothee Chalamet

[christa-tomlinson-romance-author]

WIP Wednesday. No Idea what I'm calling this story.

For WIP Wednesday, a snippet from the fantasy romance serial I start posting next month. "You have one month left in your training." Ghalen cheered internally at that. The end to his time serving under Trainer Girvyn's cruel and unjustly-biased instruction couldn't come soon enough for him. "Today you'll choose the style of weapon that you'll train with from now on. This weapon will become your specialty. Once you complete your training, you will be issued your own personal weapon and armor. Maintenance of both armor and weapon will become your responsibility. Choose your weapon wisely. It should be one you're comfortable with and that suits your body and abilities." Trainer Girvyn waved a hand at the tables behind him. "Line up and choose." The year ones moved in an only slightly undignified rush to queue up in front of the weapons tables, all eager to make their selection. Ghalen ended up in line behind Cevon. While they waited for the people in front of them to go, Ghalen stared at the back of Cevon's head, absentmindedly watching the way the sunlight sparkled on the golden strands of his hair every time Cevon moved. When it came Cevon's turn to step up to the table, Ghalen stood quietly for a moment as Cevon perused the weapons laid out on the table. Then he decided to tease him. "Hey, Cevon. Do they make a sword small enough for those little hands of yours?" Ghalen grinned after his question, anticipating his friend's response. Cevon glanced back over his shoulder, an eyebrow raised as he cast Ghalen an arch look. "They do." He spun around fully, a short sword clasped in each hand. "Two of them in fact," he said with a smirk. "But tell me, xx. Do they make a helmet giant enough to fit that big head of yours?" Laughter broke out at Cevon's quick comeback. Ghalen wasn't at all hurt or embarrassed by Cevon's comment or the laughter at his expense. Still, he pretended to be wounded, clutching a hand over his heart. "Ouch, Nuuru. Your words cut deep." "I'm going to cut you both if you don't move it along," Jang-Mi snapped from behind them. Laughing, Cevon moved to the side so Ghalen could step up to the table and make his choice. Ghalen didn't need much time to decide. For the past couple of days, he'd thought long and hard about the different types of weapons and which would suit him best. Without hesitation, he picked up a broadsword. It was heavy in his hands, the double-edge blade long and thick. He held it out in front of him, testing the way it felt in his grip. It felt right. This was the weapon he was meant to use. While he looked over the sword, Cevon moved in close to whisper in his ear. "Compensating for something, xx?" Ghalen snapped his head up, ready with a retort. Except, when he looked into the soft, brown depths of his friend's eyes, he froze. The insinuation of the remark, combined with the look on Cevon's face, stopped him in his tracks. It was a look he couldn't quite name - it fell somewhere between sly and teasing. The back of Ghalen's ears burned in response to it and something unfamiliar but not unpleasant twisted behind his navel. Cevon smirked, dark eyes flashing with deviltry before he strode off with his chosen weapons. His sword gripped tightly in hand, Ghalen followed after him.

#writing #fantasy romance #wip wednesday #serial fiction