A dense, but beautiful, completely self-sufficient novel. As in many other later novels, Moorcock transports Elric to other worlds. In these wanderings, he meets Gaynor the Accursed, helps the princesses of a people related to the Melnibonians to defend their world from Chaos and saves the soul of his father from serving Arioch. However, the best thing in the novel is not the plot, but the rich language, beautiful narrative style and many poems (it’s not for nothing that one of the heroes novel - the poet Ernest Weldrake, to whom Moorcock will attribute the epigraphic poems of subsequent novels). Overall, it turned out to be one of the best works of the Elric Saga.

Contents: “Rose's Revenge” “Curse of the Black Sword”