Order of Fritz Leiber Books
Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) was an American novelist of fantasy, horror and science fiction. In addition to being an author, Leiber was also a poet, actor, playwright, chess player and a champion fencer. He is considered to be one of the fathers of Sword and Sorcery fantasy, along with Robert E. Howard and Michael Moorcock. He is best known for his Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series.
Fritz Leiber made his debut as a novelist in 1943 with the novel Gather, Darkness!. Below is a list of Fritz Leiber’s books in order of when they were first released:
Publication Order of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Books
| The Swords of Lankhmar | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Swords in the Mist | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Swords Against Wizardry | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Swords and Deviltry | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Swords Against Death | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Swords and Ice Magic | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Knight and Knave of Swords | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Swords Against the Shadowlands | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Chronological Order of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Books
| Swords and Deviltry | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Swords Against Death | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Swords in the Mist | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Swords Against Wizardry | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Swords of Lankhmar | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Swords and Ice Magic | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Knight and Knave of Swords | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Swords Against the Shadowlands | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Graphic Novels
| Ill Met in Lankhmar | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Circle Curse/The Howling Tower | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Change War Books
| The Big Time - Includes No Great Magic! | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Big Time | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Changewar | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Gather, Darkness! | (1943) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Conjure Wife | (1943) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Destiny Times Three | (1945) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Sinful Ones | (1950) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Green Millennium | (1953) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Silver Eggheads | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wanderer | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Specter Is Haunting Texas | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Our Lady of Darkness | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rime Isle | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| No Truce with Kings & Ship of Shadows | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Coming Attraction | (1950) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Moon Is Green | (1952) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| What's He Doing in There? | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bread Overhead | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Night of the Long Knives | (1960) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| No Great Magic | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Gonna Roll the Bones | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Belsen Express | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dark Wings | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Button Molder | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Last Letter | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dead Man | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mariana | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Claws from the Night | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Yesterday House | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Nice Girl with 5 Husbands | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Night's Black Agents | (1947) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Pail of Air | (1951) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Night Monsters | (1953) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Big Time / The Mind Spider and Other Stories | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Creature from Cleveland Depths | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shadows With Eyes | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ships to the Stars | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Night of the Wolf | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Secret Songs | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Book of Fritz Leiber | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best of Fritz Leiber | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Second Book of Fritz Leiber | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Worlds of Fritz Leiber | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Heroes and Horrors | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ervool | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ship of Shadows | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mystery of the Japanese Clock | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Ghost Light | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bazaar of the Bizarre | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Leiber Chronicles: Fifty Years of Fritz Leiber | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dark Ladies | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Gummitch and Friends | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kreativity for Kats and Other Feline Fantasies | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Black Gondolier | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Selected Stories | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Smoke Ghost | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Smoke Ghost& Other Apparitions | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Day Dark, Night Bright | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Horrible Imaginings | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Creature from Cleveland Depths and Other Tales | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Poor Superman and Others | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Strange Wonders | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Horror Gems, Vol. Two | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Science Fiction Collection 001 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Night of the Long Knives and Other Works | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Science Fiction Collection 002 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Lords of Quarmall / The Beacon to Elsewhere | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Snakes & Spiders | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hatchery of Dreams | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Moon Is Green and Other Tales | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Frost Monstreme | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fritz Leiber | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bullet with His Name and Other Tales | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Hitch in Space and Other Tales | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Science Fiction Archive #2 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Hugo Winners Books
(with Isaac Asimov, Samuel R. Delany)
| 1973 | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 1976 - 1979 | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 1980 - 1982 | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 1986-1988 | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Golden Age of Science Fiction Books
| The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume VI | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume IV | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Swords & Sorcery | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1963 | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Best of Science Fiction: No. 10 | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| If This Goes On | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Eighth Galaxy Reader | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Science Fiction Oddities | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dangerous Visions | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Backdrop of Stars | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| On Our Way to the Future | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Swords Against Tomorrow | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Nebula Award 6 | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| More Stories from the Hugo Winners, Vol. 2 | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fantastic Stories Special - 1975 Sword & Sorcery Annual | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Weird Heroes Volume 1 | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Six Science Fiction Plays | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Disciples of Cthulhu | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IV | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Late Great Future | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Whispers | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series V | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rod Serling's Other Worlds | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Death | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humor | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Great Fantasy | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 10 | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Barbarians | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Terry's Universe: Science fiction's finest writers join in honoring the memory of Terry Carr | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Robert Adams' Book of Alternate Worlds | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tales of the Occult | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Horror Hall of Fame | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cats in Space... and Other Places | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 100 Wild Little Weird Tales | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The SFWA Grand Masters 1 | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Armageddons | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Space Soldiers | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In Lands That Never Were | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The World Turned Upside Down | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cat Tales: Fantastic Feline Fiction | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Time Crime & Fourteen Other SciFi Classics from the 30's to the 60's | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 2 | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Science Fiction Collection 002 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Science Fiction Gems, Volume Four, Jack Sharkey and Others | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wildside Book of Fantasy | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Book of Cthulhu II | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lieu: Science Fiction Short Stories | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best of Galaxy, Volume Two | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Blood Is Not Enough | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse MEGAPACK® | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lovecraft Mythos New & Classic Collection | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Notes: Gonna Roll the Bones is written by David Wiesner, based on a story by Fritz Leiber. Lords of Quarmall & Beacon to Elsewhere was co-authored with with Harry Fischer. Science Fiction Collection 001 was co-authored with Harry Harrison. Science Fiction Collection 002 was co-authored with Kurt Vonnegut. The Sinful Ones was also published under the title You’re All Alone. Farewell to Lankhmar was later re-titled The Knight and Knave of Swords. Swords Against the Shadowland was co-authored by Robin W. Bailey.
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