This is a partial bibliography of the works of Michael Moorcock.
See: Elric Novels for new source material.
Novels & Novellas edit
| Title | Year | Series | Type | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elric of Melniboné | 1972 | Elric | Novel | 0-425-08843-X | DAW series; Hutchinson 1972, cut vt The Dreaming City Lancer 1972 US; DAW 1977 |
| The Sailor on the Seas of Fate | Elric | Collection | 0-441-74863-5 | DAW series; Quartet 1976; DAW 1977 |
Original saga edit
DAW series (1977)
- The Weird of the White Wolf (collection, DAW 1977) ISBN 0-441-88805-4
- The Sleeping Sorceress (novel, NEL 1971; Lancer 1972 as The Vanishing Tower; DAW 1977) ISBN 0-441-86039-7
- The Bane of the Black Sword (collection, DAW 1977) ISBN 0-441-04885-4
- Stormbringer (novel, fix-up, cut, Herbet Jenkins 1965; restored, DAW 1977, Berkeley 1984) ISBN 0-425-06559-6
Del Rey reprint series, Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melniboné (2008–2010)
- Elric: The Stealer of Souls ISBN 0-345-49862-3
- Elric: To Rescue Tanelorn ISBN 0-345-49863-1
- Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress ISBN 0-345-49864-X
- Duke Elric ISBN 0-345-49865-8
- Elric in the Dream Realms ISBN 0-345-49866-6
- Elric: Swords and Roses ISBN 0-345-49867-4
Later novels edit
- Fortress of the Pearl (novel, Gollancz 1989) ISBN 0-441-24866-7
- Revenge of the Rose (novel, Grafton 1991 as The Revenge of the Rose: A Tale of the Albino Prince in the Years of his Wandering) ISBN 0-441-00106-8
Later trilogy edit
- The Dreamthief's Daughter (2001) ISBN 0-446-61120-4
- The Skrayling Tree (2003) ISBN 0-446-53104-9
- The White Wolf's Son (2005) ISBN 0-446-61745-8
Collections edit
- Elric at the End of Time (1984) ISBN 1-85028-032-0
- Michael Moorcock’s Elric: Tales of the White Wolf (1994) ISBN 1-56504-175-5
- Pawns of Chaos: Tales of the Eternal Champion (1996) ISBN 1-56504-933-0
Graphic novels edit
- Michael Moorcock's Multiverse (with Walt Simonson and John Ridgway) (1999) ISBN 1-56389-516-1
- Elric: Making of a Sorcerer (with Walt Simonson) (2007) ISBN 1-4012-1334-0
Publishing history edit
Elric first appeared in print in 1961 in Michael Moorcock's novelette "The Dreaming City" (Science Fantasy No. 47 June 1961). A further four novelettes ("While the Gods Laugh", "The Stealer of Souls", "Kings in Darkness", "The Flame Bringers") and four novellas ("Dead God's Homecoming", "Black Sword's Brothers", "Sad Giant's Shield", "Doomed Lord's Passing") followed, the last of these terminating the sequence with the close of Elric's angst-ridden life. The five novelettes were collected in The Stealer of Souls (collection, Neville Spearman 1963) and the four novellas were first published as a novel in Stormbringer (op. cit.). (This early version of Elric's saga, i.e., these nine short stories – with the full text of Stormbringer, as it appeared in Science Fantasy – was republished in a single volume as Elric (Orion/Gollancz 2001), Volume 17 in the Fantasy Masterworks series.)
Moorcock published further Elric tales throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. One of these was "The Jade Man's Eyes", published in 1973 in Flashing Swords! #2, an original anthology edited by Lin Carter. In 1977 DAW published what is widely regarded as the canonical version of Elric's saga: six books that collected the tales according to their internal chronology (and with the text of Stormbringer restored and revised). These DAW paperbacks all featured cover art work by the same young artist, Michael Whelan, and helped to define the look of both Elric and his sword Stormbringer. Whelan has subsequently done the cover art for other Elric novels, as have many other artists.
A few oddments were collected in Elric at the End of Time (coll. NEL 1984). The novelette "Elric at the End of Time" fits into the saga between The Sailor on the Seas of Fate and The Weird of the White Wolf.
Beginning in 2008, Del Rey Books reprinted the original, classic Elric material as a series of illustrated books: The Stealer of Souls, To Rescue Tanelorn, The Sleeping Sorceress, and Duke Elric (in 2009). 2009's Elric in the Dream Realms reprinted Fortress of the Pearl, and 2010's 'Swords and Roses' will reprint other later material.
In August 2012, Victor Gollancz Ltd. announced their intention to republish all of Michael Moorcock's back catalogue, including all the Elric stories, which will be presented in internal chronological order, along with previously unpublished material. All the stories will be published in both print and e-book formats.[1]
Chronology edit
The main sequence, according to the saga's internal chronology, comprises the following books (in those cases where a book is composed of several titled sub-stories, these are listed):
- (I) Elric of Melniboné
- Book 1
- Book 2
- Book 3
- The Fortress of the Pearl
- (II) The Sailor on the Seas of Fate
- Book One: Sailing To the Future
- Book Two: Sailing To the Present
- Book Three: Sailing To the Past
- Elric at the End of Time
- (III) The Weird of the White Wolf
- Prologue: The Dream of Earl Aubec
- Book One: The Dreaming City
- Book Two: While the Gods Laugh
- Book Three: The Singing Citadel
- (IV) The Vanishing Tower (The Sleeping Sorceress)
- Book One: The Torment of the Last Lord
- Book Two: To Snare the Pale Prince
- Book Three: Three heroes With a Single Aim
- The Revenge of the Rose
- (V) The Bane of the Black Sword
- Book One: The Stealer of Souls
- Book Two: Kings in Darkness
- Book Three: The Flame Bringers (aka The Caravan of Forgotten Dreams)
- Epilogue: To Rescue Tanelorn
- (VI) Stormbringer
- Book One: Dead God's Homecoming
- Book Two: Black Sword's Brothers
- Book Three: Sad Giant's Shield
- Book Four: Doomed Lord's Passing