“The Mouser made a very small parry in carte so that the thrust of the bravo from the east went past his… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“Oaths are made to be kept only until their purpose be fulfilled," the fluty voice responded. "Every geas is lifted at last,… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“None can use black magic without straining the soul to the uttermost—and staining it into the bargain. None can inflict suffering without… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“Fafhrd stopped, again wiped right hand on robe, and held it out. "Name's Fafhrd. Ef ay ef aitch ar dee." Again the… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“Fafhrd, his back to a great oak, had his broadsword out and was holding off two of Rannarsh's henchmen, who were attacking… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“The seven black priests—" Fafhrd muttered. "The six," the Mouser corrected. "We killed one of them last night." "Well, the six then,"… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“The “Howard” in the entry had to be Howard Phillips Lovecraft , that twentieth-century puritanic Poe from Providence, with his regrettable but undeniable loathing… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love. — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
Traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic of all… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“Certainly we’ve made important innovations, chief among them the systematic use of the scientific method,” he said at one point, “but the primitive groundwork… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“Miss Millick wondered just what had happened to Mr. Wran. He kept making the strangest remarks when she took dictation. Just this morning he… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“Of course it had been an hallucination. But when hallucinations start behaving like realities, with a score of coincidences to back them up, even… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours. — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“The Mouser made a very small parry in carte so that the thrust of the bravo from the east went past his left side… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“It had all begun on the elevated. There was a particular little sea of roots he had grown into the habit of glancing at… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“Thoughts are dangerous, he told himself, and thoughts against all science, all sanity, all civilized intelligence, are the most dangerous of all. He felt… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image