It would be fair to say that author Fritz Leiber is best-known for his adventures in the world of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Swords in the Mist, Leiber's third novel in series published in 1968 by Ace Books, once again follows the aforementioned Fafhrd and Gray Mouser as they travel through Nehwon. The novel is comprised of six separate short stories; in each short stories, the duo goes an adventure and inevitably get themselves into hot water.
In one of the short stories, titled "Their Mistress, the Sea," the two start to reconcile after a falling out and embark on a journey across the sea. That story, which is filled to the brim with emotion and action and adventure, follows similar patterns as the other stories in the novel: the two go on an adventure, find trouble, and solve their problem.
Swords in the Mist, like much of the rest of Leiber's work, received incredibly positive reviews when it was published. In their review of the novel, The San Francisco Chronicle wrote that the novel: “has lost none of its luminous magic."
