In my review of the last Elric collection, I noted that author Michael Moorcock had found an interesting way to bring the character ‘back from the dead’ by having Elric’s spirit or ‘essence’ travel through dimensions and use other bodies in other times so that we could get a new variety of Elric stories.  With Continue reading

This third volume in the Elric of Melniboné saga takes on a very different tenor than the previous seven books (compiled as collections, Elric of Melniboné: The Saga Vol 1 and Stormbringer: The Saga Vol 2). At the end of the previous collection Elric has died, so how do his adventures continue?  This is high fantasy, so that’s an Continue reading

It’s another era – closer now to our own time – and we’re introduced to Oonagh, the grand-daughter of Oona and Ulric. She’s enjoying her holiday in her grandparents’ home when she’s visited by a number of strangers. First it’s Klosterheim and Gaynor von Minct – a pair likely up to no good. Then it’s the Continue reading

Elric in America?  Heck yeah!  This should be good! We learned in the previous book in this trilogy (The Dreamquest Trilogy) that Elric has become a non-corporeal being and can inhabit other planes of the Multiverse (if this sentence is already too strange for you, then this book is definitely not for you).  Let’s see Continue reading

There’s no doubt in my mind that I never read this Elric novel prior to this.  I definitely would have remembered Elric and dragons and magic fighting World War II Germans! Given that Elric and all he held dear – his city and its people – were destroyed at the end of his last series Continue reading