‘Elric: Tales Of The White Wolf’

Elric: Tales Of The White Wolf

Stone Mountain, GA: White Wolf, 1994 (November) hardcover;
edited by Edward E. Kramer & Richard Gilliam (as Kramer only, on spine);
original price: $19·99;
381 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 1-56504-175-5;
cover artist: (Gerald) Brom;
illustrated by Larry McDougal, Timothy Bradstreet, Richard Thomas, Mark Jackson, Lawrence Allen Williams, Tony Diterlizzi, Joshua Gabriel Timbrook, John Cobb, Andrew Mitchell Kudecka, George Pratt, Richard Kane Ferguson, Jeff Rebner & (uncredited) “Smif” (a.k.a. Dan Smith);
introduction by Michael Moorcock.

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…

Tales Of The White Wolf is not a Michael Moorcock book, but an original anthology of Elric stories by Moorcock and others.

Contents (first edition):-
p. 1: title page;
p. 2: copyright page;
p. 3: contents page;
p. 4: frontispiece by Larry McDougal;
p. 5: editors’ dedication page;
p. 6 (as 1 on contents page): ‘Introduction To Tales Of The White Wolf’ (non-fiction) by Michael Moorcock;
p. 9: ‘The White Wolf’s Song’ by Moorcock;
p. 32: ‘Go Ask Elric’ (illustrated by Timothy Bradstreet) by Tad Williams;
p. 66: ‘Now Cracks A Noble Heart’ by David M. Konigsberg;
p. 70: ‘A Devil Unknown’ (illustrated by Richard Thomas) by Roland J. Green & Frieda A. Murray;
p. 83: ‘Kingsfire’ by Richard Lee Byers;
p. 96: ‘The Gate Of Dreaming’ (illustrated by Mark Jackson) by Brad Strickland;
p. 104: ‘The Littlest Stormbringer’ by Brad Linaweaver & William Alan Ritch;
p. 120: ‘Providence’ (illustrated by Lawrence Allen Williams) by Kevin T. Stein;
p. 127: ‘The Guardian At The Gate by Scott Ciencin;
p. 138: ‘Celebration Of Celene (illustrated by Tony Diterlizzi) by Gary Gygax;
p. 162: ‘The Song Of Shaarilla’ (poem) by James S. Dorr;
p. 168: ‘Too Few Years Of Solitude’ (illustrated by Joshua Gabriel Timbrook) by Stewart Von Allmen (a.k.a. Stewart Wieck).
p. 177: ‘White Wolf’s Awakening’ by Paul W. Cashman;
p. 196: ‘The Dragon’s Heart’ (illustrated by John Cobb) by Nancy A. Collins;
p. 215: ‘A Woman’s Power’ by Doug Murray;
p. 234: ‘The Gothic Touch’ (illustrated by Andrew Mitchell Kudecka) by Karl Edward Wagner;
p. 251: ‘The Soul Of An Old Machine’ by Thomas E. Fuller;
p. 264: ‘The White Child’ (illustrated by George Pratt) by Jody Lynn Nye;
p. 283: ‘Temptations Of Iron’ by Colin Greenland;
p. 298: ‘The Other Sword’ (illustrated by Richard Kane Ferguson) by Robert Weinberg;
p. 309: ‘Arioch’s Gift by Charles Partington;
p. 312: ‘The Trembler On The Axis’ (illustrated by Jeff Rebner) by Peter Crowther & James Lovegrove;
p. 342: ‘Beyond The Balance’ by Nancy Holder;
p. 354: ‘One Life, Furnished In Early Moorcock’ (illustrated by “Smif” [a.k.a. Dan Smith) by Neil Gaiman;
p. 368: biographies.

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