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Sword and sorcery (also swords and sorcery or sword-and-sorcery) is a subgenre of fantasy fiction combining elements of the swashbuckling adventure tales of the nineteenth century with historical settings and (usually) magic or the supernatural.

The term was suggested in 1961 in the fanzine Ancalagon by Fritz Leiber, whose tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are classics of the field, to describe stories in the vein of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian.

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