The Swords of Lankhmar (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Book 5)

by Fritz Leiber

There is a point of grotesquerie beyond which horror cannot go, but slips into delirium. Fafhrd had reached that point. He began to feel as if he were in an opium dream. Everything was unquestionably real, yet it had lost its power to horrify him acutely.