The Dreaming City

The Dreaming City
AuthorMichael Moorcock
LanguageEnglish
GenreFantasy
Published1961
Publication placeEngland

The Dreaming City is a novella written by Michael Moorcock, which first appeared in Science Fantasy issue 47, in June 1961.[1] It was the first story to feature the character Elric of Melniboné.[citation needed]

"The Dreaming City" has been reprinted in several collections of Moorcock's Elric stories, including The Stealer of Souls (Spearman, 1963), The Stealer of Souls and Other Stories (Lancer / Mayflower, 1967), The Weird of the White Wolf (DAW, 1977), Elric of Melniboné (Millennium / Orion, 1993), Elric: Song of the Black Sword (White Wolf, 1995), Elric (Gollancz / Orion, 2001), Elric: The Stealer of Souls (Del Rey, 2008), and Elric: Sailor on the Seas of Fate (Gollancz, 2013).[2]

In 1982, Marvel Comics adapted the novella into a graphic novel written by Roy Thomas and illustrated by P. Craig Russell.[3] In 2021, Titan Comics released a serialized comic book adaptation of The Dreaming City written by Julien Blondel with art by Julien Telo.[4]

This novella should not be confused with the 1972 novel Elric of Melniboné, which has occasionally been published under the title The Dreaming City by Lancer Books (1972) and Magnum Books (1975) but is actually a distinct story from the 1961 novella of this name.

  1. ^ "THE DEEP ONES: "The Dreaming City" by Michael Moorcock | The Weird Tradition | LibraryThing | LibraryThing". www.librarything.com. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Title: The Dreaming City". www.isfdb.org. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Marvel Graphic Novel #2 - Michael Moorcock's Elric The Dreaming City". www.comics.org. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  4. ^ "Elric: The Dreaming City @ Titan Comics". titan-comics.com. Retrieved 19 August 2021.