The March/April 85th anniversary issue of Weird Tales features our big list of “The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years.” We’re breaking it down online, too: one honoree per day, in no particular order, for 85 days!

As editor of the British science fiction magazine New Worlds through the second half of the 1960s, MICHAEL MOORCOCK (1939– ) shepherded in a younger, weirder generation of authors more interested in straddling, crossing, and breaking literary boundaries than in defining them. And as creator of the dark, moody epic fantasy anti-hero Elric of Melniboné, Moorcock offered the new wave of readers a brooding, angst-ridden — dare we say emo? — mage-warrior-king whose fallibilities they could identify with.