Nifft the Lean

✍ Scribed by Michael Shea

• Publisher: Grafton Books; Collins Publishing Group
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 220 KB
• Series: Nifft the Lean 01
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0586064990

✦ Synopsis

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Paperback, 368 pages
Published 1982
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (1983)
Nifft the Lean consists of four con­nec­ted novellas:
1- Come Then, Mortal — We Will Seek Her Soul
2- The Pearls of the Vampire Queen
3- The Fishing of the Demon-Sea
4- The God­dess in Glass
The stories feature Nifft and his com­pan­ions Haldar or Barnar, strongly recal­ling that won­der­ful pair of rogues, Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser. They are intro­duced by Shag Margold, a historian and Nifft’s friend, but narrated by Nifft him­self except the last story. These adven­tures in­volve Nifft and his com­pan­ion hoping to recover a valuable talis­man, dis­cov­er­ing a pow­er­ful sorceress or vam­pire goddess, getting in way over their heads, and find­ing in­ge­nious—and some­times ruth­less—means to ex­tri­cate them­selves. There are plenty of memo­ra­ble detours and exo­tic en­coun­ters.
We invite you to the very gates of Hell and beyond — come if you dare!
What a bizarre and grotesque vision!—Nifft the Lean—a dark and often stomach-churning trip into a strange underworld teeming with demons, lurks, scabrous beetles, ghouls, and damned souls. But be­fore you say “that sou­nds un­pleas­ant,” never fear, brave reader, for Nifft has a world-weary ironic wit.