Fritz Leiber wrote fantasy, horror and science fiction, but is especially associated with the sword-and-sorcery partnership of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Beginning with stories later collected in Swords and Deviltry, the pair travel through the city of Lankhmar and beyond, taking on thieves, sorcerers and dangerous jobs with more humour and moral ambiguity than conventional heroic fantasy. Leiber's horror includes Our Lady of Darkness, which turns modern San Francisco into a setting for occult menace, while Conjure Wife uses witchcraft inside an academic community. His work is inventive, witty and often urban. It fits sword and sorcery, weird fiction, urban horror and classic speculative short stories. Read more Less