‘Black Petals’

Elric of Melniboné — proud prince of ruins, kinslayer — call him what you will. He remains, together with maybe Jerry Cornelius, Moorcock’s most enduring, if not always most endearing, character…

An Elric story — the first short-form tale for more than thirteen years — ‘Black Petals’ was later adapted, “substantially revised”, as Book Two of the novel The Citadel Of Forgotten Myths (2022).

First appearance: Weird Tales Vol. 63 No. 2 (whole No. 349)
Rockville, MD: Wildside Press magazine, March/April 2008;
edited by Stephen H. Segal & Ann VenderMeer;
price:  $6·99;
128 pages;
I.S.S.N.: none;
cover artist: Newel Anderson.

First collected appearance: Elric: Swords And Roses
New York:  Del Rey, 2010 (28th December) trade-sized paperback (q.v.);
sub-titled “Chronicles Of The Last Emperor Of Melniboné Volume 6”;
original price:  $16·00;
xxviii + 463 pages;
I.S.B.N.:  978-0-345-49867-0;
cover artist:  John Picacio (also interior);
foreword by Tad Williams.

Foreign (i.e. non-English language) appearance:-

Elric: Swords And Roses as Elric: Kılıçlar Ve Güller, Turkey (2019).