• Fritz Leiber's 'Fafnird and the Gray Mouser' book cover, featuring a fantasy illustration of a warrior fighting a giant green octopus while another figure falls into a boat with a rope.
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Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser: Cloud of Hate and Other Stories Paperback (Dark Horse Books)

Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser: Cloud of Hate and Other Stories Paperback (Dark Horse Books)

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Experience a spectacular, production-packed blockbuster era in sword-and-sorcery comic history! Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser: Cloud of Hate and Other Stories Paperback delivers a comprehensive visual showcase capturing comics industry titan Denny O'Neil's legendary 1973 adaptations of fantasy literature's greatest duo.
Dark Horse's premium archival line offers beautifully curated, slim graphic volumes that collect historic treasures. This essential collection takes you deep undercover on a high-stakes dungeon-crawling, sorcery-slaying, and mythical beast hunt. Read along as the towering barbarian and the nimble rogue trace a dangerous course across the ancient city of Lankhmar, clashing brutally through a unified front of black magic, bloodthirsty cults, and oceanic terrors to secure their survival before the dark forces trigger ultimate devastation.
Key Story Highlights:
  • The Cloud of Hate: Follow the unlikely warrior duo across dangerous, fog-filled alleyways on a breathless quest to survive a creeping, supernatural mist that drives the citizens of Lankhmar into a murderous, fanatical frenzy.
  • The Classical Adaptations: Watch the legendary writing of Denny O'Neil deploy on a investigative tactical mission, meticulously bringing Fritz Leiber’s timeless pulp characters and dense Nehwon worldbuilding from prose to the comic page.
  • The Kraken Conflict: Witness the lethal combination of nautical action and dark fantasy as the thieves take to the high seas, battling prehistoric aquatic monsters and navigating treacherous sorcery fields that push their steel to the limit.
This incredible, heavy-duty book is an absolute crown-jewel library centerpiece addition for modern fantasy literature completionists, classic 1970s bronze age comic historians, and sequential art instructors looking to study master-level narrative pacing, retro dynamic coloring, and classical comic drafting by legends Denny O'Neil, Howard Chaykin, and Walter Simonson.
Product Specifications
  • Publisher: Dark Horse Books
  • Lead Author: Dennis O'Neil (Denny O'Neil)
  • Original Prose Creator: Fritz Leiber
  • Illustrators & Artists: Howard Chaykin (Illustrator), Walter Simonson (Illustrator), Marvelous Various
  • Format: Trade Paperback Graphic Novel (Core Collected Edition)
  • Configuration: [First Edition] (Complete 1970s Archival Collection)
  • Condition: Brand New Condition / Unread Archive Stock
  • Availability: In Stock / Rare Vintage Adaptation
  • Print Length: 132 pages packed with illustrations
  • Language: English
  • Publication Date: June 28, 2016
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