‘The Sadness of the Executioner’ – Fritz Leiber
I’ve been having a little tidy-up in my flat, not getting rid of loads of books (although some have gone) but putting loads, that I’m not going to get to for a while, into storage boxes under my bed so the rest of the place doesn’t look like a ‘flat shaped pile of books’. It’s quite refreshing actually. I should do it more often 😊 The great thing has been discovering ‘mini-piles’ of books that I forgot I had and one of these contained Volume 1 of Lin Carter’s ‘Flashing Swords’ series. Just look at that cover by the way, gloriously old school. I was in the mood to finish off the week on another short story so when I saw that Fritz Leiber had an entry here, that was my reading sorted 😊 I’ve never read any Fritz Leiber (at least, not that I can remember) and so, me being me, I appear to come into the world of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser at the tail end of book five of their series. Luckily for me, they only had cameo roles here… ‘Let’s see, thought Death with a vast coolness that yet...