Brian Lumley

Brian Lumley
Born	2 December 1937 County Durham, England
Occupation	novelist, Writer
Period	1971–present
Genre	Horror, Sci-Fi
Website
www.brianlumley.comwww.brianlumley.net

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

Biography

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^[1] and becoming a professional writer.

In the 1970s 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 Lovecraft'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."^[2]

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 latest entry in the Necroscope saga is The Mobius Murders.

Lumley served as president of the Horror Writers Association from 1996 to 1997. On 28 March 2010 Lumley was awarded Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association.^[3] He also received a World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2010.^[4]

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".^[5]

Bibliography

Necroscope: The Touch (2006)

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.

Title	Series	Year	Pages	Type	Notes
Necroscope	Necroscope Saga	1986	512	novel
Necroscope II: Wamphyri!	Necroscope Saga	1988	496	novel	US Title: Necroscope II: Vamphyri!
Necroscope III: The Source	Necroscope Saga	1989	528	novel
Necroscope IV: Deadspeak	Necroscope Saga	1990	560	novel
Necroscope V: Deadspawn	Necroscope Saga	1991	592	novel
Vampire World 1: Blood Brothers	Necroscope Saga	1992	752	novel	US Title Blood Brothers
Vampire World 2: The Last Aerie	Necroscope Saga	1993	768	novel	US Title The Last Aerie
Vampire World 3: Bloodwars	Necroscope Saga	1994	784	novel	US Title Bloodwars
Necroscope: The Lost Years Volume 1	Necroscope Saga	1995	483	novel	US Title Necroscope: The Lost Years
Necroscope: The Lost Years Volume 2	Necroscope Saga	1996	468	novel	US Title Necroscope: Resurgence, The Lost Years Volume Two
E-Branch 1: Invaders	Necroscope Saga	1998	560	novel	US Title Necroscope: Invaders
Necroscope: Defilers, E-Branch Volume 2	Necroscope Saga	1999	672	novel
Necroscope: Avengers, E-Branch Volume 3	Necroscope Saga	2000	576	novel
Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes!	Necroscope Saga	2003	320	collection
Necroscope: The Touch	Necroscope Saga	2006	672	novel
Necroscope: Harry and the Pirates	Necroscope Saga	2009	416	collection	UK Title Necroscope: The Lost Years Harry and the Pirates
Necroscope: The Plague-Bearer	Necroscope Saga	2010	184	novella
Necroscope: The Möbius Murders	Necroscope Saga	2013	176	novella
Psychomech	Psychomech Trilogy	1984	351	novel
Psychosphere	Psychomech Trilogy	1984	272	novel
Psychamok	Psychomech Trilogy	1985	445	novel
The Burrowers Beneath	Cthulhu Cycle Deities	1974		novel	Part of the Titus Crow series
The Transition of Titus Crow	Cthulhu Cycle Deities	1975		novel	Part of the Titus Crow series
The Clock of Dreams	Cthulhu Cycle Deities	1978		novel	Part of the Titus Crow series
Spawn of the Winds	Cthulhu Cycle Deities	1978		novel	Part of the Titus Crow series
In the Moons of Borea	Cthulhu Cycle Deities	1979		novel	Part of the Titus Crow series
Elysia	Cthulhu Cycle Deities	1989		novel	Book ties together & concludes Titus Crow, Dreamlands and Primal Land series
Hero of Dreams	Cthulhu Cycle Deities	1986		novel	Part of the Dreamlands series
Ship of Dreams	Cthulhu Cycle Deities	1986		novel	Part of the Dreamlands series
Mad Moon of Dreams	Cthulhu Cycle Deities	1987		novel	Part of the Dreamlands series
Iced on Aran	Cthulhu Cycle Deities	1992		collection	Part of the Dreamlands series
House of Cthulhu	Cthulhu Cycle Deities	1991		collection	Part of the Primal Land series
Tarra Khash: Hrossak!	Cthulhu Cycle Deities	1991		novel	Part of the Primal Land series
Sorcery in Shad	Cthulhu Cycle Deities	1991		novel	Part of the Primal Land series
Beneath the Moors	Cthulhu Cycle Deities	1974		novella
Khai of Ancient Khem		1980		novel	Khai of Khem in recent editions
Demogorgon		1987		novel
The House of Doors		1990		novel
The House of Doors: The Second Visit		1998		novel	US title: Maze of Worlds
The Fly-By-Nights		2011		novel
The Caller of the Black		1971		collection
The Horror at Oakdeene and Others		1977		collection
The House of Cthulhu and Others		1984		collection
Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi		1993		collection
Dagon's Bell and Other Discords		1994		collection
Return of the Deep Ones and Other Mythos Tales	Cthulhu Cycle Deities	1994		collection
The Second Wish and Other Exhalations		1995		collection
A Coven of Vampires		1998		collection
The Whisperer and Other Voices		2001		collection
Brian Lumley's Freaks		2004		collection
Screaming Science Fiction: Horrors from Out of Space		2006		collection
The Taint and other Novellas: Best Mythos Tales Number 1	Cthulhu Cycle Deities	2008		collection
Haggopian and Other Tales: Best Mythos Tales Number 1	Cthulhu Cycle Deities	2008		collection
The Nonesuch and Others		2009		collection

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 Guardians
  • 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)

References

1. "Brian Lumley's website". Brianlumley.com. 2 December 1937. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
2. Brian Lumley, "Mail-Call of Cthulhu", Black Forbidden Things, p. 194.
3. Scott, Sifu (29 March 2010). "Horror Writers Association Presents 2009 Stoker Winners". Dreadcentral.com. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
4. World Fantasy Convention (2010). "2010 World Fantasy Award Winners & Nominees". Retrieved 4 February 2011.
5. "An Interview with Brian Lumley", Robert M. Price, Nightscapes No. 5.

http://www.brianlumley.net

Further reading

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

External links

• Official website Official website
• "An Interview with Brian Lumley", by Robert M. Price, Nightscapes No. 5
• Brian Lumley at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database