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It was probably the first sword-and-sorcery story I read.

Anyway, honest or not, I read the title story “Ill Met in Lankhmar” and it was a revelation. For the record, I now buy books before I read them. I was in the habit of reading books at Barnes and Noble in the seats that they provide. Years later, now living in Colorado, I would pick up a collection of Hellboy stories and become a fan of Mignola’s comic work. I was immediately struck by the cover by comic artist Mike Mignola. I had heard of Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser tales in some SF magazine and was interested in reading them. This was a double collection that includes Swords and Deviltry and Swords Against Death. I was a teenager in the suburbs of Houston when I picked up the collection Ill Met in Lankhmar by White Wolf Publishing at a Barnes and Noble. I discovered Fritz Leiber, Mike Mignola, and sword-and-sorcery at the same time.