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Short story by Fritz Leiber

"Bazaar of the Bizarre"
Short story by Fritz Leiber
"Bazaar of the Bizarre" was the cover story for the August 1963 issue of Fantastic
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Fantasy
Publication
Published in	Fantastic
Publication date	August 1963
Series	Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser

"Bazaar of the Bizarre" is a sword and sorcery novelette by American writer Fritz Leiber and part of the canon of stories chronicling Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.

First published in 1963 in Fantastic, it has been reprinted several times, including as a standalone edition. It also appears in the anthology The Spell of Seven, edited by L. Sprague de Camp.

Plot

One night in Lankhmar, the wizards Ningauble of the Seven Eyes and Sheelba of the Eyeless Face join forces and summon Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser to carry out a mission. They are required to enter the Plaza of Dark Delights and obliterate an illegal bazaar established there by the Devourers, alien merchants who magically mesmerize customers into buying high priced merchandise which is actually worthless junk. However, Mouser arrives before him and is enticed into the bazaar. Fafhrd, aided only by the Blindfold of True Seeing and Cloak of Invisibility, given to him by the wizards, must perform the mission alone.

This he does, battling not only an entranced Mouser, but reanimated skeletons and living statues as well, against which his weapons are all but useless. He manages to escape and rescue Mouser, who is still mesmerized into believing that the junk he sees is actually valuable, including books of ancient spells.

References

"Fafhrd and The Grey Mouser by Fritz Leiber". fantasy-faction.com. March 13, 2012. Archived from the original on April 18, 2016. Retrieved April 4, 2016.

External links

Bazaar of the Bizarre title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

v t e Fritz Leiber
Novels	Conjure Wife (1943) Destiny Times Three (1945) The Big Time (1961) The Wanderer (1964) Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966) A Specter Is Haunting Texas (1969) Our Lady of Darkness (1977)
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser	Two Sought Adventure (1957) Swords and Deviltry (1970) Swords Against Death (1970) Swords in the Mist (1968) Swords Against Wizardry (1968) The Swords of Lankhmar (1968) Swords and Ice Magic (1977) Bazaar of the Bizarre (1978) The Knight and Knave of Swords (1988) Swords Against the Shadowland (Robin Wayne Bailey) (1998)
Short story collections	Night's Black Agents (1947) The Best of Fritz Leiber (1974) The Book of Fritz Leiber (1974) The Second Book of Fritz Leiber (1975) Heroes and Horrors (1978)
Short stories	"Coming Attraction" (1950) "A Pail of Air" (1951) "The Moon is Green" (1952) "The Unholy Grail" (1962) "Bazaar of the Bizarre" (1963) "To Arkham and the Stars" (1966) "Gonna Roll the Bones" (1967) "Ill Met in Lankhmar" (1970) "The Snow Women" (1970) "Midnight by the Morphy Watch" (1974) "Belsen Express" (1975) "Catch That Zeppelin!" (1975) "The Terror from the Depths" (1976)
Adaptations	Weird Woman (1944) Night of the Eagle (1962) Witches' Brew (1980) The Girl with the Hungry Eyes (1995)
Other items	Bibliography Fritz Leiber, Sr. (father)

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