June Showcase: Fritz Leiber

Twelve heartbeats to go.

Death most strongly felt that, if only for artistry’s sake, heroes should be made to make their exits from the stage of life in the highest melodramatic style, with only one in fifty score let to die of old age and in the bed of sleep for the object of irony.

Death has a quota to fill in The Sadness of the Executioner by Fritz Leiber, and only twenty heartbeats in which to claim tenscore human lives.  

Let’s see, thought Death with a vast coolness that yet had a tiny seething in it, one hundred sixty peasants and savages, twenty nomads, ten warriors, two beggars, a whore, a merchant, a priest, an aristocrat, a craftsman, a king, and two heroes.  That would keep his books straight.

We are invited to peek over the shoulder of Death as he tries to creatively engineer the demise of Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser in fulfillment of the heroes quota.  While completely unaware that Death has his eye upon them, will they unwittingly cheat death?

Pegana Press brings you this hugely entertaining story from a master weilder of the sword and sorcery genre in a limited edition handset letterpress chapbook edition titled Nehwon Vision.  This volume contains Fritz Leiber’s The Sadness of the Executioner with frontispiece by Patrick Mallet.

If you love letterpress, and appreciate Sword and Sorcery, we bring you this chapbook to whet your appetite and to give you a taste of the simple elegance that a small press edition can bring to your collection.

We’ve chosen to Showcase this book and are making it available to purchase at the special price of $65.00 through the end of June.

Please visit our website for details.

And one thing more...Pegana Press is on Patreon.  We invite you to view our page and our subscription levels.  If being a patron of a small press appeals to you, we offer great patron rewards to express our gratitude.

Like free shipping on The Sadness of the Executioner for new patrons who sign up before the end of June.  See details on our website.