Swords and Deviltry
'Ill Met in Lankhmar' won both Hugo and Nebula. The series codified sword and sorcery's urban, ironic mode and directly inspired D&D's thieves' guilds and Pratchett's Ankh-Morpork.
Series Guide
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
by Fritz Leiber
Leiber's tales of the giant northern barbarian and the small sly thief, swords-for-hire in the fog-bound city of Lankhmar — sword and sorcery with wit, melancholy and the genre's best double act.