Swords in the Mist

Blurb

Swords in the Mist is a fantasy short story collection by Fritz Leiber featuring his sword and sorcery heroes Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. It is chronologically the third volume in the complete seven volume edition of the collected stories devoted to the characters. It was first published in paperback in 1968 by Ace Books, which reprinted the title numerous times through September 1990; later paperback editions were issued by ibooks and Dark Horse. It has been published in the United Kingdom by Mayflower Books and Grafton. The first hardcover edition was issued by Gregg Press in December 1977. The book has also been gathered together with others in the series into various omnibus editions; The Three of Swords, Lean Times in Lankhmar, The First Book of Lankhmar, and Lankhmar.
The book collects six short stories, of which three were originally published in the magazines Fantastic Stories of Imagination for May 1963 and Fantastic Science Fiction Stories for November 1959 and May 1960, one was originally published in the collection Night's Black Agents, and two first appeared in the book itself.