Michael Moorcock’s Elric: Tales of the White Wolf (1994)

An original anthology edited by Edward E. Kramer and Richard Gillian

With an introduction and new Elric tale by Michael Moorcock

This volume is a very fine collection of stories with one notable exception (see below).

One of the best is Karl Edward Wagner’s tale of when Elric met Kane.

Another is Tad Williams’ tale of when Elric and Jimi Hendrix joined forces to battle the Coprophage. OK, maybe it was the Chronophage.

Unfortunately, the collection is irreparably damaged by the inclusion of a story that is not even aboout Elric. This abomination is written by an unprincipled hack, a former insurance underwriter. It is the thinly veiled self-portrait of a mental dwarf. Incorporation of this pseudo-tale transmogrifies the book from an A+ to a D-.