Corum: The Prince in the Scarlet Robe, by Michael Moorcock

[nwhyte]

Second paragraph of third chapter of The Knight of the Swords: Corum frowned and went to the cool water of the river to wash his face and hands. He paused, listening again. A thump. A rattle. A clank. He thought he heard a voice shouting further down the valley and he peered in that direction and thought he saw something moving.
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Comments

[andrewducker]

I loved a load of the Eternal Champion books as a teenager. The mixture of fantasy and mopiness really grabbed me.

[johnny9fingers]

I found Corum far less imaginative or meaningful the Dancers at the End of Time. Of Moorcock’s non Jerry Cornelius “Eternal Champion” books, I find only the original two Elric books (collections of long short stories iirc) to be really memorable. Moorcock wrote a couple of great comic detective novels, and he did try really hard with his serious fiction, but “The Condition of Muzak” is still his best and most ambitious novel