Swords and Ice Magic

Blurb

Swords and Ice Magic is a fantasy short story collection by Fritz Leiber featuring his sword and sorcery heroes Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. It is chronologically the sixth volume in the complete seven volume edition of the collected stories devoted to the characters. It was first published in paperback in July 1977 by Ace Books, which reprinted the title numerous times through 1990; a later paperback edition was issued by 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; Swords' Masters, Return to Lankhmar, and The Second Book of Lankhmar.
The book collects seven short stories and one novella, three of which were originally published in the anthologies Flashing Swords! #1 and Flashing Swords! #3: Warriors and Wizards, the collections The Book of Fritz Leiber and The Second Book of Fritz Leiber, and the magazines Fantastic for November 1973 and April 1975, Whispers for December 1973, and Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine for May and July 1977.