Brian Lumley

Brian Lumley
Born	2 December 1937 (1937-12-02) County Durham, England
Occupation	Novelist, Writer
Period	1971–present
Genres	Horror, Sci-Fi
Influences H. P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson
Influenced James A. Moore
www.brianlumley.com

Brian Lumley (born 2 December 1937) is an English horror fiction writer.

Born in County Durham, he joined the British Army's Royal Military Police and wrote stories in his spare time before retiring with the rank of Warrant Officer Class 1 in 1980 and becoming a professional writer.

In the 1970's he added to H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos cycle of stories, including several tales and a novel featuring the character Titus Crow. Several of his early books were published by Arkham House. Other stories pastiched Lovecrafts's Dream Cycle but featured Lumley's original characters David Hero and Eldin the Wanderer. Lumley once explained the difference between his Cthulhu Mythos characters and Lovecraft's: "My guys fight back. Also, they like to have a laugh along the way."

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.

Lumley served as president of the Horror Writers Association from 1996 to 1997. On 28 March 2010 got Lumley was awarded Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association. He also received a World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2010.

Inspiration

Lumley's list of his favourite horror stories—"not complete by any means and by no means in order of preference"—includes M. R. James' "Count Magnus", Robert E. Howard's "The Black Stone", Robert W. Chambers' "The Yellow Sign" from The King in Yellow, William Hope Hodgson's "The Voice in the Night", and H. P. Lovecraft's "The Haunter of the Dark" and "The Colour out of Space".

Bibliography

This is a list of Lumley's more notable novels and short story collections. This list of novels and short stories is not exhaustive. Lumley has had many pieces published in periodicals and other publications, sometimes as works in progress or partial works, under his own name and jointly with other writers.

Necroscope Saga

• Necroscope (1986)
• Necroscope II: Wamphyri! (1988)
  • US Title: Necroscope II: Vampyri!
• Necroscope III: The Source (1989)
• Necroscope IV: Deadspeak (1990)
• Necroscope V: Deadspawn (1991)
• Vampire World 1: Blood Brothers (1992)
  • US Title: Blood Brothers
• Vampire World 2: The Last Aerie (1993)
  • US Title: The Last Aerie
• Vampire World 3: Bloodwars (1994)
  • US Title: Bloodwars
• Necroscope: The Lost Years Volume 1 (1995)
  • US Title: Necroscope: The Lost Years
• Necroscope: The Lost Years Volume 2 (1996)
  • US Title: Necroscope: Resurgence, The Lost Years Volume Two
• E-Branch 1: Invaders (1998)
  • US Title: Necroscope: Invaders
• E-Branch 2 : Defilers (1999)
• E-Branch 3: Avengers (2000)
• Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Heroes! (2003)
• Necroscope: The Touch (2006)
  • US only
• Necroscope: Harry and the Pirates (2009)
• Necroscope: The Plague-Bearer(2010)

The Psychomech Trilogy

• Psychomech (1984)
• Psychosphere (1984)
• Psychamok (1985)

Cthulhu Cycle Deities Novels

• Titus Crow/Henri deMarigney
  • The Burrowers Beneath (1974, ISBN 0-312-86867-7)
  • The Transition of Titus Crow (1975, ISBN 0-312-86299-7)
  • The Clock of Dreams (1978, ISBN 0-312-86868-5)
  • Spawn of the Winds (1978, ISBN 0-515-04571-3)
  • In the Moons of Borea (1979, ISBN 0-312-86866-9)
  • Elysia (1989, ISBN 0-932445-32-2), in which the characters of the Titus Crow series meet characters from Lumley's two other series, Dreamlands and Primal Land, for a grand confrontation with the Dark Forces. The completing novel for Titus/Dreamlands/Primal Lands series
• Dreamlands Novels (2009, all five from Full Moon Press)
  • Hero of Dreams (1986)
  • Ship of Dreams (1986)
  • Mad Moon of Dreams (1987)
  • Iced on Aran: Collection of Dreamland tales featuring David Hero and Eldin the Wanderer (1992)

• Primal Land Novels
  • House of Cthulhu (1991, 2005)
  • Tarra Khash: Hrossak! (1991, 2006)
  • Sorcery in Shad (1991, 2006)

Other Novels

• Beneath the Moors (1974—Arkham House)
• 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)

Short Story Collections

• The Caller of the Black (1971—Arkham House)
• The Horror at Oakdeene and Others (1977—Arkham House)
• The House of Cthulhu and Others (1984)
• Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi (1993)
• Dagon's Bell and Other Discords (1994)
• Rreturn of the Deep Ones and Other Mythos Tales (1994)
  • Collection of Primal Land tales [details needed]
• The Second Wish and Other Exhalations (1995)
• A Coven of Vampires (Fedogan & Bremer, 1998)
• The Whisperer and Other Voices (2001)
• Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes! (2003)
  • US only; features two new stories featuring Harry Keogh, the eponymous Necroscope as well as previously published short stories of some of Lumley's more enduring heroes, Titus Crow plus David Hero and Eldin the Wanderer
• Screaming Science Fiction: Horrors from Out of Space
• Brian Lumley's Freaks
• Dark Delicacies (2005)
  • My Thing Friday

The Subterranean Press Edition

• Necroscope (novel)

• Brian Lumley's Freaks
  • Introduction
  • In the Glow Zone
  • Mother Love
  • Problem Child
  • The Ugly Act
  • Somebody Calling

• A Coven of Vampires (1998)
  • What Dark God?
  • Back Row
  • The Strange Years
  • The Kiss of the Lamia
  • Recognition
  • The Thief Immortal
  • Necros
  • The Thing From the Blasted Heath
  • Uzzi
  • Haggopian
  • The Picknickers
  • Zack Phalanx is Vlad the Impaler
  • The House of the Temple

• Screaming Science Fiction: Horrors from Out of Space
  • "Snarker's Son"
  • "The Man Who Felt Pain"
  • "The Strange Years"
  • "No Way Home"
  • "The Man Who Saw No Spiders"
  • "Deja Viewer"
  • "Feasibility Study"
  • "Gaddy's Gloves"
  • "The Big 'C'"

Bob Eggleton painted cover for Subterranean Press edition.

• The Taint and other novellas: Best Mythos Tales, Volume One (2007)
  • "Introduction"
  • The Horror at Oakdeene
  • Born of the Winds
  • The Fairground Horror
  • The Taint
  • Rising with Surtsey
  • Lord of the Worms
  • The House of the Temple

• Haggopian and other stories (2008)
  • Introduction
  • The Caller of the Black
  • Haggopian
  • Cement Surroundings
  • The House of Cthulhu
  • The Night Sea-Maid Went Down
  • Name and Number
  • Recognition
  • Curse of the Golden Guaradians
  • Aunt Hester
  • The Kiss of Bugg-Shash
  • De Marigny's Clock
  • Mylakhrion the Immortal
  • The Sister City
  • What Dark God?
  • The Statement of Henry Worthy
  • Dagon's Bell
  • The Thing from the Blasted Heath
  • Dylath Leen
  • The Mirror of Nitocris
  • The Second Wish
  • The Hymn
  • Synchronicity or Something
  • The Black Recalled
  • The Sorcerer's Dream

• The Nonesuch and Others (2009)
  • Introduction
  • "The Thin People"
  • "Stilts"
  • The Nonesuch

• The Fly-by-Nights (2011)

Further Reading

• Leigh Blackmore. Brian Lumley: A New Bibliography. Sydney: Dark Press, 1994. San Bernadino, CA: Borgo Press, 1987.
• Brian Lumley and Stanley Wiater (eds). The Brian Lumley Companion. NY: Books, 2002.

External links

• Brian Lumley's Web Site
• "An Interview with Brian Lumley", by Robert M. Price, Nightscapes No. 5
• Brian Lumley at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database