Synopsis
The two adventurers here are drawn across the ocean by a curse that takes them to the Bleak Shore.
History
First publication: Unknown, November 1940
Review
An excellent fantasy adventure, short but brilliant and imaginative. Recommended.
Videos
We have the story in these editions:
Swords Against Death, paperback, Ace Books, 1984-08-00
All of the stories in the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series:
Induction
Lean Times in Lankmhar
When the Sea-King’s Away
Scylla’s Daughter
The Unholy Grail
The Cloud of Hate
Bazaar of the Bizarre
The Lords of Quarmall
Stardock
In the Witch’s Tent
The Wrong Branch
Their Mistress, the Sea
The Two Best Thieves in Lankhmar
The Circle Curse
Ill Met in Lankhmar
The Snow Women
The Price of Pain-Ease
The Sadness of the Executioner
Trapped in the Shadowland
The Bait
Beauty and the Beasts
Under the Thumbs of the Gods
Trapped in the Sea of Stars
The Frost Monstreme
Rime Isle
Sea Magic
The Mer She
The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars
The Mouser Goes Below
The Jewels in the Forest
The Bleak Shore
The Howling Tower
The Sunken Land
Thieves’ House
Adept’s Gambit
Claws from the Night
The Seven Black Priests
5 The Swords of Llankhmar
