Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and Gray Mouser series. I can't remember what the first one is called.
The Malacia Tapestry by Brian Aldiss, the well-made city trilogy by Jeffrey Ford, most of Rachel Kushner's books, I think. And when I see Lynch mentioned I always have to mention the original urban dwelling fantasy scoundrels, Fafhrd and Grey Mouser in Fritz Leiber's stories!
Now reading SWORDS OF LANKHMAR and the way Leiber does humor in those books remains an absolute joy. Not all of it lands, but the mysterious Ningauble being a bit of a hack and a goof, warning of savage mastiffs or the police? Totally works.
#WeeknightWriters Would a pair of characters do? Two of my favorites are Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. They were my gateway drug into dark fantasy.
Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser in Swords Against P. falciparum
1) Vaster than empires and more slow by Le Guin 2) Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams 3) Shaman by Kim Stanley Robison 4) Fafhrd and Mouser stories by Fritz Leiber
Fafhrd would like to have a word.
(emerges from crypt, reeking if graveyard mold) I was born in 1970 and OLD fantasy had it! Fafhrd lost a hand! Elric of Melniboné had CFS! THESE WERE NOT MINOR CHARACTERS IN OBSCURE STORIES!
Llega el otoño con sus promesas y su caída de hojas. ¡Y vaya si caen en las mesas de novedades! La editorial Norma nos hace felices con un buen tomo integral de FAFHRD Y EL RATONERO GRIS, adaptando la inolvidable saga de espada y brujería debida a la pluma de Fritz Leiber.
