This is a bibliography of the works of Michael Moorcock.
Fiction Work centred on Elric of Melniboné Individual stories The character Elric first appeared in print in a series of novelettes, novellas, and short tales, many of which were published in Science Fantasy magazine. The author later wrote a trilogy of novels about Elric and Oona von Bek. The Elric stories have frequently been edited, retitled, and combined with other material to form fix-ups as part of later republications.
Internal ChronologyPublishing OrderTitleFormDateOriginally published in130The Folk of the ForestNoveletteThe magazine New Edge Sword and Sorcery, Fall 2023214Elric of MelnibonéNovelStandalone 320The Fortress of the PearlNovelStandalone 422The Black Blade's Summoning (aka The White Wolf's Song, aka The Black Blade's Song)NoveletteThe anthology Michael Moorcock's Elric: Tales of the White Wolf, edited by Richard Gilliam and Edward E. Kramer516/17Sailing To the FutureNoveletteThe collection The Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Michael Moorcock616/17Sailing To the Present (revision of The Lands Beyond the World which was published later)NovellaThe collection The Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Michael Moorcock715Sailing To the Past (revision of The Jade Man's Eyes)NoveletteStand-alone 819Elric at the End of TimeNoveletteThe anthology "Elsewhere", edited by Mark Alan Arnold and Terri Windling911The Dream of Earl Aubec (aka Master of Chaos)Short StoryThe magazine Fantastic Stories of Imagination101The Dreaming CityNoveletteThe magazine Science Fantasy No. 471126A Portrait in IvoryShort StoryThe anthology Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories, edited by John Klima122While the Gods LaughNoveletteThe magazine Science Fantasy No. 491312The Singing CitadelNoveletteThe anthology The Fantastic Swordsmen, edited by L. Sprague de Camp1413The Vanishing Tower (aka The Sleeping Sorceress)NovellaThe anthology Warlocks and Warriors, edited by Douglas Hill1521The Revenge of the RoseNovelStand-alone 163The Stealer of SoulsNoveletteThe magazine Science Fantasy No. 51174Kings in DarknessNoveletteThe magazine Science Fantasy No. 541828Red Pearls (aka How Elric Pursued His Weird into the Far World)NoveletteThe anthology Swords and Dark Magic, edited by Lou Anders and Jonathan Strahan1927Black Petals (aka How Elric Discovered an Unpleasant Kinship)NoveletteThe magazine Weird Tales March–April 200820According to John Davey, Moorcock's editor and bibliographer: "The Citadel of Forgotten Myths slots -- in terms of the overall saga’s internal narrative chronology -- between two novellas, 'Kings in Darkness' and 'The Flame Bringers', which fall just before the final volume, Stormbringer. This is despite cover text for Citadel… stating that it is "Taking place between the first and second book in the Elric Saga".” [This comment was posted in 'The Many Worlds of Michael Moorcock' Facebook group by Guy Lawley on 07.12.2022.]29White Steel (aka In Which our Heroes Discover a Lost Past)NovellaThe collection The Citadel of Forgotten Myths by Michael Moorcock215The Flame Bringers (alternative title: The Caravan of Forgotten Dreams)NoveletteThe magazine Science Fantasy No. 552218The Last Enchantment (aka Jesting with Chaos)Short StoryThe anthology Ariel: The Book of Fantasy, Volume Three, edited by Thomas Durwood236To Rescue TanelornNoveletteThe magazine Science Fantasy No. 56247Dead God's HomecomingNovellaThe magazine Science Fantasy No. 59258Black Sword's BrothersNovellaThe magazine Science Fantasy No. 61269Sad Giant's ShieldNovellaThe magazine Science Fantasy No. 632710Doomed Lord's PassingNovellaThe magazine Science Fantasy No. 642825The White Wolf's Son (aka Son of the Wolf)NovelStandalone Uncertain23The Dreamthief's Daughter (aka Daughter of Dreams)NovelStandalone Uncertain24The Skrayling Tree (aka Destiny's Brother)NovelStandalone
Collections The first five novelettes were originally collected in The Stealer of Souls (1963), and the later four novellas were first published as a novel in an edited version called Stormbringer (1965). The 1965 novel had roughly a quarter of the text removed to make it more concise, with cuts made mostly to the second and third novellas. To make sense of the restructuring, new bridging material was added to the remaining text.
In 1977, DAW Books republished Elric's saga in six books that collected the tales according to their internal chronology: Elric of Melniboné (Hutchinson, 1972, cut vt [variant title] The Dreaming City Lancer, 1972 US; DAW, 1977) The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (Quartet, 1976; DAW 1977), The Weird of the White Wolf (collection, DAW, 1977, contains "The Dream of Earl Aubec", "The Dreaming City", "While the Gods Laugh" and "The Singing Citadel"), The Sleeping Sorceress (NEL, 1971; Lancer, 1972 as The Vanishing Tower; DAW 1977), The Bane of the Black Sword (DAW, 1977, fixup of "The Stealer of Souls", "Kings in Darkness", "The Flame Bringers" and "To Rescue Tanelorn"), Stormbringer (cut, Herbert Jenkins, 1965; restored and revised, DAW, 1977, Berkeley, 1984, fixup of "Dead God's Homecoming", "Black Sword's Brothers", "Sad Giant's Shield" and "Doomed Lord's Passing"),
The DAW paperbacks all featured cover art work by Michael Whelan and helped define the look of Elric and his sword Stormbringer. The DAW edition of Stormbringer restored some of the original structure and text compared to the 1965 release, but other revisions were performed and other material excised. A few oddments were collected in Elric at the End of Time (1984, ), which became the seventh book in the DAW line when they released it in the United States in 1985. It includes two Elric-related tales: the title story and 1962's "The Last Enchantment", originally intended as the final Elric story but put aside in favour of those that eventually made up Stormbringer; it was not published until 1978.
Several subsequent collections grouped some of the stories together in the same way the DAW versions did, and used the same titles for some of the groups. There were also cases where the same book title was used by multiple publishers for different collections of stories.
In 1984, Nelson Doubleday/Science Fiction Book Club republished much of the Elric material then-available in The Elric Saga: Part One and The Elric Saga: Part Two. As new material was published, they expanded their collection with The Elric Saga: Part Three in 2002 and The Elric Saga: Part Four in 2005.
In the 1990s, Orion Publishing/Millennium released a two-book collection – Elric of Melniboné and Stormbringer – containing the Elric material then available. White Wolf Publishing released a similar two-volume compilation – Elric: Song of the Black Sword (1995) and Elric: The Stealer of Souls (1998). These two-volume compilations are arranged according to the internal chronology of the saga. The White Wolf text has minor revisions when compared to the Millennium release.
In 2001, Orion/Gollancz republished the first nine short stories, including the full text of Stormbringer as it appeared in Science Fantasy, in a single volume as Elric, volume 17 in the Fantasy Masterworks series.
From 2008 to 2010, Del Rey Books reprinted the material as a series of six illustrated books called Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melniboné: Elric: The Stealer of Souls, Elric: To Rescue Tanelorn (collects "To Rescue Tanelorn", "The Last Enchantment", "Master of Chaos", "The Singing Citadel", "The Jade Man's Eyes", "Elric at the End of Time", "The Black Blade's Song" (aka "The Black Blade's Summoning"), and some non-Elric stories), Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress, Duke Elric, Elric in the Dream Realms (collects "The Fortress of the Pearl", "A Portrait in Ivory", and the script of the Elric: The Making of a Sorcerer graphic novel), Elric: Swords and Roses, The Del Rey series arranged the stories in the sequence they were originally published, along with related fiction and nonfiction material. The version of Stormbringer featured in this collection restored all the original material missing since the 1977 DAW edition – which had formed the basis for all later editions – as well as Moorcock's preferred versions of all the revised material in an attempt to produce a definitive text. These volumes present the evolution of the character through early juvenile stories, early fanzine musings by Moorcock, some Elric stories, some others introducing the reader to the wider "Eternal Champion" theme, stories of other heroes who coexist with Elric in the realm of Melniboné, unpublished prologues, installments of Moorcock's essay "Aspects of Fantasy", a 1970s screenplay, a reader's guide, notes from an Elric series that never developed, contemporary reviews, and appreciation essays by other writers.
From 2013 to 2018, Victor Gollancz Ltd. republished much of Michael Moorcock's back catalogue, presented in internal chronological order along with previously unpublished material, in both print and e-book formats. Eight volumes included Elric stories: Elric of Melniboné and Other Stories, Elric: The Fortress of the Pearl, The War Amongst the Angels, Elric: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress, Elric: The Revenge of the Rose, Elric: Stormbringer!, Elric: The Moonbeam Roads, (collects "The Dreamthief's Daughter", "The Skrayling Tree", and "The White Wolf's Son") When Saga Press published The Citadel of Forgotten Myths with new Elric material in 2022, Victor Gollancz Ltd. published their own version of that book too .
From 2019 to 2023, Centipede Press republished a limited edition run of seven volumes with many of the Elric stories: Elric of Melniboné, The Fortress of the Pearl, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, The Sleeping Sorceress, The Revenge of the Rose, Stormbringer, and The Dreamthief's Daughter.
The latest collection, from 2022, was by Saga Press, who republished a 4-volume collection of Elric stories: Elric of Melniboné, (collects "Elric of Melniboné", "The Fortress of the Pearl", "The Sailor on the Seas of Fate" and "The Weird of the White Wolf") Stormbringer, (collects "The Vanishing Tower", "The Revenge of the Rose", "The Bane of the Black Sword" and "Stormbringer") The White Wolf, (collects "The Dreamthief's Daughter", "The Skrayling Tree", and "The White Wolf's Son") The Citadel of Forgotten Myths, (collects "Red Pearls", "Black Petals", and "White Steel")
The 2022 Saga Press collection is missing a few minor old Elric stories which do not effect the overall narrative: Elric at the End of Time, The Black Blade's Summoning, A Portrait in Ivory, and The Last Enchantment. The 2008–2010 Del Rey Books collection has all the old stories, but it's missing some of the newer stories: "Red Pearls", "White Steel", "The Dreamthief's Daughter", "The Skrayling Tree", and "The White Wolf's Son". The 2013–2018 Victor Gollancz collection has all the old and new Elric stories except for "Elric at the End of Time", plus all of the Elric collections are missing the 2023 story "The Folk of the Forest" (which is currently only available in New Edge Sword and Sorcery)."The Elric Saga: A Reader's Guide", by John Davey, included in the Saga Press 2022 versions of the three Michael Moorcock books Elric of Melniboné, , Stormbringer, , and The White Wolf, .
Comics Michael Moorcock wrote several comics about Elric: 1973: Elric: The Return to Melniboné (with illustrations by Philippe Druillet) 1979: Elric (with illustrations by Frank Brunner) 1997–1998: Michael Moorcock's Multiverse, a 12-issue original story published by the Helix imprint of DC Comics. The illustrations were by Walter Simonson, Mark Reeve, and John Ridgway. It was later collected as a single-edition graphic novel by Vertigo, 288 pages, November 1999, ).