''Two Sought Adventure'' is a

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collection of

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short stories by American writer

Fritz Leiber Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. ( ; December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theater and films, playwright, and chess expert. With writers such as Robert ...

. It was first published by

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in 1957 in an edition of 4,000 copies. The collections contains all of Leiber's

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are two sword-and-sorcery heroes appearing in stories written by American author Fritz Leiber. They are the protagonists of what are probably Leiber's best-known stories. One of his motives in writing them was to have ...

stories that had been written at the time, with the exception of "Adept's Gambit". The collection was expanded (minus the Induction) and published by

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in 1970 under the title '' Swords Against Death''. (The Induction was reused in a companion volume, '' Swords and Deviltry''.) The stories originally appeared in the magazines ''

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'', '' Other Worlds'' and ''Suspense Magazine''.

* "Induction" * "The Jewels in the Forest" * "Thieves' House" * "The Bleak Shore" * "The Howling Tower" * "The Sunken Land" * "The Seven Black Priests" * "Claws from the Night"

Plot

The Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories concern the lives of two larcenous but likable rogues as they adventure across the fantasy world of Nehwon. The stories in ''Two Sought Adventure'' collect a miscellaneous series of adventures from their wanderings, including a quest for treasure in a dwelling with unique defenses ("The Jewels in the Forest"), a bout with the Thieves' Guild of Lankhmar ("Thieves' House"), an ensorcelled journey to a far-away land ("The Bleak Shore"), an encounter with a beast-haunted stranger ("The Howling Tower"), a dangerous visit to their world's equivalent of Atlantis ("The Sunken Land"), a conflict with a murderous priesthood ("The Seven Black Priests"), and a magical plague afflicting Lankhmar ("Claws from the Night").

Reception

Galaxy Science Fiction ''Galaxy Science Fiction'' was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published in Boston from 1950 to 1980. It was founded by a French-Italian company, World Editions, which was looking to break into the American market. World Editi ...

'' called ''Two Sought Adventure''s stories "guaranteed nostalgia evokers ... improbably wonderful adventures".

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* * {{Fritz Leiber 1957 short story collections Fantasy short story collections Nehwon books Short story collections by Fritz Leiber Gnome Press books

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