"The Unholy Grail" is a similar, if considerably shorter, meeting with the Gray Mouser.
In Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Leiber created characters whose frustrations and desires are more universal. But most of all, they are true friends.
This is a long, but fun, introduction to the character of Fafhrd and brings him into perspective in a lot of ways. As for the story, this was actually my introduction to Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.
They rebel against their parents, love and lose love, and go on to love again. They are rogues, but with the proverbial heart of gold. Excellent pulp fantasy, entertaining and witty, with a great couple of lead characters. Becoming well-rounded, and all. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are two sword-and-sorcery heroes appearing in stories written by American author Fritz Leiber.They are the protagonists of what are probably Leiber's best-known stories. One of his motives in writing them was to have a couple of fantasy heroes closer to true human nature than the likes of Howard's Conan the Barbarian or Burroughs's Tarzan. The new Lankhmar volume has five of the early Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories, beginning with "The Snow Women." Someone needs to make a movie about them.