Fritz Leiber: Stories

Who or what was the scoundrel that kept these couriers from the swift completion of their handsomely appointed rondos?

It's much later. The question is. how late?

Anybody who wanted to escape death could, by paying a very simple price--denial of life!

Adventure is relative to one's previous experience. Sometimes, in fact, you can't even be sure you're having or not having one!

They were two desperate scavengers in a no-man's land of radiation and death. Living in a kill or be killed world. Can they fin a new life and hope? A grim, grisly post-apocalypse story.

The troupers of the Big Time lack no art to sway a crowd-- or to change all history!

The loss of solar heating has caused the Earth's atmosphere to freeze into thick layers of "snow". The boy's father had worked with a group of other scientists to construct a large shelter, but the earthquakes accompanying the disaster had destroyed it and killed the others. He managed to construct a smaller, makeshift shelter called the "Nest" for his family, where they maintain a breathable atmosphere by periodically retrieving pails of frozen oxygen to thaw over a fire.

Poor Butcher suffered more than any dictator in history: everybody gave in to him because he was so puny and they were so impregnable!

He went where no Martian ever went before--but would he come out--or had he gone for good?

Meeting someone who's been dead for twenty years is shocking enough for anyone with a belief in ghosts--worse for one with none!