The Spell of Seven | 
"The Gibbelins eat, as is well known, nothing less good than man."
- The Hoard of the Gibbelins, Lord Dunsany
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"The Gibbelins eat, as is well known, nothing less good than man."
- The Hoard of the Gibbelins, Lord Dunsany
#FirstLineFridays @shybookowl
pickThe first of the stories is a Fritz Leiber tale of Fafhrd & the Grey Mouser, with the added bonus of featuring their wizardly patrons, Ningauble of the Seven Eyes & Sheelba of the Eyeless Face.
In decadent Lankhmar's Plaza of Dark Delights, a gaudy new shop appears overnight. The wizards separately dispatch their protegés to end this extradimensional threat, the Mouser, typically, letting his curiosity & sybaritic tastes get the better of 👇🏻
Second edition of this collection of seven sword and sorcery tales. Published 1968, bought 1979, finally made it off Mount TBR 2025. 49 years of well-aged magic and mayhem! 😄
This is a comfort read as I've actually read many of the stories in other collections. Some favourite characters here, including Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, Elric of Melniboné and Conan the Barbarian. Let the swashbuckling begin! ⚔️
