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''Swords Against Death'' is a fantasy short story collection by Fritz Leiber featuring his sword and sorcery heroes Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. It is chronologically the second volume in the complete seven volume edition of the collected stories devoted to the characters. It is an expansion of Leiber's earlier collection ''Two Sought Adventure'', issued by Gnome Press in 1957. The earlier collection contained seven of the ten stories in ''Swords Against Death'', plus an "Induction" omitted from the expanded edition, which was instead republished in its companion volume, ''Swords and Deviltry'' (1970). ''Swords Against Death'' was first published in paperback in 1970 by Ace Books, which reprinted the title numerous times through August 1990; later paperback editions were issued by ibooks (2003) and Dark Horse (2007). It has been published in the United Kingdom by New English Library (1972), Mayflower Books (1979) and Grafton (1986). The first hardcover edition was issued by Gregg Press in December 1977. The book has also been gathered together with others in the series into various omnibus editions; ''The Three of Swords'' (1989), ''Ill Met in Lankhmar'' (1995), ''The First Book of Lankhmar'' (2001), and ''Lankhmar'' (2008). The book collects ten short stories, eight of which were originally published in the magazines ''Unknown'' for August 1939, ''Unknown Worlds'' for February 1942 and February 1943, ''Unknown Fantasy Fiction'' for November 1940, and June 1941, ''Other Worlds Science Stories'' for May 1953, ''Suspense'' for Fall 1951, and ''Fantastic Stories of Imagination'' for August 1963, and two of which first appeared in the book itself. ==Contents== *"The Circle Curse" (1970) *"The Jewels in the Forest" (1939; originally titled "Two Sought Adventure") *"Thieves' House" (1943) *"The Bleak Shore" (1940) *"The Howling Tower" (1941) *"The Sunken Land" (1942) *"The Seven Black Priests" (1953) *"Claws from the Night" (1951; originally titled "Dark Vengeance") *"The Price of Pain-Ease" (1970) *"Bazaar of the Bizarre" (1963) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Swords Against Death」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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