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Brian Lumley

Born:	December 2, 1937 County Durham, United Kingdom
Occupation:	novelist, writer
Genres:	Horror, Sci-Fi
Influences:	H. P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson

Brian Lumley (born December 2, 1937) 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, including several tales featuring the character Titus Crow. Others pastiched Lovecrafts's Dream Cycle and featured the 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."^[1]

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.

Contents 1 Inspiration 2 Bibliography 2.1 Necroscope Saga 2.2 The Psychomech Trilogy 2.3 Cthulhu Cycle Deities Novels 2.4 Other Novels 2.5 Short Stories 3 Notes 4 External links

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".^[2]

• Necroscope (1986)
• Beneath the Moors and Darker Places (1974 - Arkham House)
• 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)
• Necroscope: The Touch (2006)
  • US only

• Psychomech (1984)
• Psychosphere (1984)
• Psyckamok (1985)

• Titus Crow/Henri deMarigney
  • The Burrowers Beneath (1974)
  • The Transition of Titus Crow (1975)
  • The Clock of Dreams (1978)
  • Spawn of the Winds (1978)
  • In the Moons of Borea (1979)
  • Elysia (1989)
    • Completing novel for Titus/Dreamlands/Primal Lands series
• Dreamland Novels
  • Hero of Dreams (1986)
  • Ship of Dreams (1986)
  • Mad Moon of Dreams (1987)
• Primal Land Novels
  • Tarra Khash: Hrossak! ()
  • Sorcery in Shad (1991)

• 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)

Lumley has written many original as well as some reminiscent of Richard Matheson and H. P. Lovecraft. Here is a selected bibliography of his short story collections.

• The Caller of the Black (1971 - Arkham House)
• The Horror at Oakdeene and Others (1977 - Arkham House)
• Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi ()
• Dagon's Bell and Other Discords ()
• The Second Wish and Other Exhalations ()
• Iced on Aran ()
  • Collection of Dreamland tales featuring David Hero and Eldin the Wanderer
• The House of Cthulhu and Others (1984)
  • Collection of Primal Land tales
• A Coven of Vampires (1998)
• Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes! (2003)
  • US only; features two new stories featuring Harry Keogh, the eponymous Necroscope as well as peviously published short stories of some of Lumley's more enduring heroes, Titus Crow plus David Hero and Eldin the Wanderer
• The Whisperer and Other Voices (2001)

Note: This list is not exhaustive. Being a proflific writer of novels and short stories, Lumley has had many pieces published in titles under his own name only, as well as periodicals, partworks and other publications alongside other writers of note.

1. ^ Brian Lumley, "Mail-Call of Cthulhu", Black Forbidden Things, p. 194.
2. ^ "An Interview with Brian Lumley", Robert M. Price, Nightscapes No. 5.

• 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

Persondata
NAME	Lumley, Brian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	British novelist, writer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 2, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	County Durham, United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH