Sexton Blake was “perhaps the world’s longest-running detective hero [with] One of Blake’s greatest adversaries [being Monsieur] Zenith the Albino”. ‘Crimson Eyes’ features (in homage to Blake) the metatemporal detective Sexton Begg, thus cross-linking the story with those of various other members and generations of the Family von Bek and their curious relationships with both Lucifer and the Holy Grail.
First appearance: New Statesman & Society Vol. 7 No. 333
1994 (December 16th–30th) magazine;
edited by Steve Platt;
price: £2·95;
80 pages;
I.S.S.N.: 0954-2361;
cover artist: none.
First collected appearance: Fabulous Harbours
London: Millennium, 1995 (August 21st) hardcover and simultaneous trade-sized paperback (q.v.);
sub-titled “A Sequel To Blood” on title page;
original prices: £15·99 (h/c), £8·99 (p/b);
x + 192 pages;
I.S.B.N.s: 1-85798-408-0 (h/c) & 1-85798-409-9 (p/b);
cover artist: Gustave Moreau (Dead Poet Borne By Centaur).
Other appearances:-
Amherst, N.Y.: Pyr hardcover (q.v.), 2007 (October);
edited by Linda Moorcock (credited on copyright page);
original price: $25·00;
327 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 978-1-59102-596-2;
cover artist: John Picacio;
‘Crimson Eyes’: pp. 37–50 (featuring Seaton [rather than Sexton] Begg).
New York: Del Rey, 2008 (July 29th) trade-sized paperback (q.v.);
sub-titled “Chronicles Of The Last Emperor Of Melniboné Volume 2”;
original price: $15·00;
xxiv + 471 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 978-0-345-49863-2;
cover artist: Michael Wm. Kaluta (also interior);
foreword by Walter Mosley;
‘Crimson Eyes’: pp. 407–421 (featuring Seaton Begg) (illustrated by Kaluta).
in The War Amongst The Angels (omnibus);
London: Gollancz trade-sized paperback (q.v.), 2014 (September 11th);
edited by John Davey;
original price: £10·99;
xx + 798 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 978-0-575-09273-0;
cover artist: Gustave Moreau (St. George And The Dragon);
‘Crimson Eyes’: pp. 447–461 (featuring Seaton Begg).
Foreign (i.e. non-English language) appearances:-
Elric: To Rescue Tanelorn as Elric: Tanelorn’u Kurtarmak, Turkey (2016).
Also in Второй Эфир [The War Amongst The Angels (omnibus)], Russia (2023).
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