Brian Lumley
Brian Lumley (born
December 2,
1937 - the year of
H. P. Lovecraft's death) is a writer of
horror fiction. Born in County Durham in northeast
England, he joined the
British Army and wrote stories in his spare time before retiring from the military in
1980 and becoming a professional writer.
He added to
H. P. Lovecraft's
Cthulhu Mythos cycle of stories with several works of his own. The most notable of them featured the character
Titus Crow. Others of them were
pastiches of Lovecrafts's
Dream Cycle and featured the characters David Hero and Eldin the Wanderer. Later works included the
Necroscope series of novels, which produced
spin-off series such as the
Vampire World Trilogy,
The Lost Years parts 1 and 2, and the
E-Branch trilogy. The central protagonist of the earlier
Necroscope novels appears in the anthology,
Harry Keogh and Other Weird Heroes. The
Necroscope saga is closed with the novel,
The Touch.
Beyond
H. P. Lovecraft and the
Necroscope novels Brian Lumley has had published an impressive body of work:
*Short stories reminiscent of
Richard Matheson*The
Psychomech trilogy:
*
Psychomech (1984)
*
Psychosphere (1984)
*
Psyckamok (1985)
The House of Doors (1990)
**And its sequel,
House of Doors: The Second Visit (
Maze of Worlds in the US) (1998)
Demogorgon (1987)
Khai of Ancient Khem (or
Khai of Khem in a recent reprint) (1980)
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Brian Lumley's Web Site*
The Ultimate Cthulhu Mythos Book List - Listing of all mythos novels, anthologies, collections, comic books, and more.
