If it was Elric’s tragic self-sabotage—the way he leans on Stormbringer, bargains with Arioch, and ultimately blows the Horn of Fate knowing the cost—that gripped you, you’ll click with Abercrombie’s cast. In The Blade Itself, the broken inquisitor Sand dan Glokta and the blood-soaked Logen Ninefingers stagger from compromise to compromise, much as Elric and Moonglum do on their road to the world’s remaking. You get that same knife-edge tension between necessity and damnation, with choices that bite back as hard as a soul-drinking sword.

If the scenes of Elric feeding souls to Stormbringer, calling on Arioch, and watching Chaos warp the land were your jam, The Black Company channels that same lethal sorcery. Croaker’s mercenaries serve The Lady and her Taken, where necromancy, shadow-things, and world-bending spells decide wars. Like Elric’s last campaign with Moonglum before the Horn of Fate, every victory here carries a terrible magical price—and the line between master and servant is as treacherous as a demon blade.

If you savored the unflinching bleakness of Stormbringer—Zarozinia’s peril, Moonglum’s sacrifice, and a finale where the world itself pays—then Beyond Redemption delivers that same gut-punch. Here, belief warps reality and mad gods are born from delusion; every deal feels like one more step down Elric’s path with Stormbringer. The violence is intimate and awful, and the rare wins feel as ash-streaked as Elric’s last stand against the Lords of Chaos.

If Elric’s philosophical wrestling—debts to Arioch, the burden of Stormbringer, the inevitability of the Horn of Fate—pulled you in, Wolfe’s Severian will haunt you. In The Shadow of the Torturer, an exile from the Guild of Torturers narrates his fall and meandering ascent through a dying world, probing responsibility, memory, and redemption with the same grave weight Elric gives to destiny and choice. It’s introspective, mythic, and charged with moral ambiguity.

If the grand sweep of Stormbringer—Elric and Moonglum ranged across worlds, tangling with Chaos until the Horn of Fate resets reality—thrilled you, Nine Princes in Amber hits the same epic nerve. Corwin of Amber awakens amid scheming siblings, treads the Pattern, and strides through infinite Shadows to seize a throne. The cosmic high drama and reality-warping powers mirror Elric’s last campaign, but with Zelazny’s razor-swift pacing and wry voice.