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When the Sea-King's Away
Fritz Leiber · 1960novelette
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While the ruler of an undersea realm is away, his lonely queens lure Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser down beneath the waves for a revel that, as such things tend to for the pair, turns out to have teeth of its own.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Placement
- Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
- contained in Lean Times in Lankhmaromnibus
- contained in Swords and Sorcery: Stories of Heroic Fantasyanthology
- contained in Swords in the Mistcollection
- contained in Swords in the Mist / Swords and Ice Magic: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Books 3 and 6omnibus
- contained in The First Book of Lankhmaromnibus
- contained in The Three of Swordsomnibus