Claws from the Night

Overview:

• Title: Claws from the Night
• Author: Fritz Leiber
• Year: 1951
• Type: Short Fiction
• Series: Fafhrd and Gray Mouser short stories

Synopsis:

In Lankhmar, crow-like birds begin to steal jewels and gold, occasionally mutilating or killing the women who wear them. When one carries off a valuable piece which Fafhrd and Gray Mouser planned to steal, they follow it to an abandoned tower...

Notes:

First published as Dark Vengeance in Suspense Fall 1951; collected in Swords agains Death, title has been changed to Claws from the Night. Some online sources mention "Claws in the Night" but this seems unsubstantiated, mutually copied error, coming probably from one mention in Locus1 which however isn't elaborated by bibliographic details; there's nothing in Contento.

Variant Titles:

• 1951. Dark Vengeance

Editions/Publications:

• 1970. Swords Against Death (1970, Fritz Leiber Ace, Catalog ID: #79151, $0.95, 251 pages, Paperback, Collection)
• 1970. Swords Against Death (1970, Fritz Leiber Ace, Catalog ID: #79152, $1.25, 251 pages, Paperback, Collection)
• 1970. Swords Against Death (1970, Fritz Leiber Ace, Catalog ID: #79156, $2.25, 251 pages, Paperback, Collection)
• 1972. Swords Against Death (July 1972, Fritz Leiber NEL, ISBN-10: 0450009572, 207 pages, Paperback, Collection)
• 1979. Swords Against Death (1979, Fritz Leiber Mayflower, ISBN-10: 0583130879, £0.85, 222 pages, Paperback, Collection)

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