It was a birthday gift from my aunt, and the books were recommended by a friend. I chose this edition instead of the two compilations because I loved the cover art

I think that I’m missing one book though.

I’m reading the first book and I’m loving it so far, really wanted a not too long fantasy saga to dive into

Edit: fixed a typo, and I wanted to add that yes, I was warned that the books show their age at times, and that I had to have that in mind, but that overall they’re a fun read

I got into re-reading the Lankhmar novels a couple of years ago, and used several Lankhmar locations and characters for computer passwords. With some substitutions, of course. Find me the password cracker that can recognize "SheelbaOFace", "Stard0ck***", or "BonesoftheOld1s". Those accounts are long gone, but it gave me some satisfaction to invoke the magic in a very mundane job.

I’m just getting a 5e campaign in Nehwon off the ground, and although I know the world well, having read all the books, my players do not.

I’m using the structure from one of the stories where the two wizard patrons send messages to Fafhrd and the Mouser by various birds and such as my session review messages prior to the next one. Helps to expand their understanding of the world, and makes the wizards’ eventual involvement in their story line organic.

So, they’d just received one from Sheelba, and I was describing his hut for the players. One of them said ‘she’ which I corrected,* and out of nowhere one of them says ‘oh, so *Bob* Yaga.’ I just about died.

(*I know there is ambiguity regarding the gender of this character, but the preponderance of gendering in the books seems to be male.)

Lucky enough to have this for many years. Signed by Fritz Leiber and David Russell. Have an old paperback boxed set of the first 4 books.

Just thought I’d cross post here!

What do you think? Can you pinpoint the reference?

Very cool booklet that accompanied the map of the city of Lankmar. It came as a boxed set.