Continuing the fight against a multiverse "reduced to one dull, coherent agony of boredom," Moorcock continues to amplify the interconnected stories of the Rose, Elric, von Bek, and Jerry Cornelius, and their companions and echoes. You can enter the fabric of the Moorcock multiverse anywhere; these 11 short stories are as good a place to start as any, a compact yet sweeping introduction to everything that has come before, told in styles ranging from hard-boiled to lush high-fantasy with the perfect control of a master storyteller.