Books by Brian Lumley and Complete Book Reviews

Brian Lumley, Author . Tor $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-87839-9
First published as a paperback original in 1990, this fourth volume in British author Lumley's popular series pays particular homage to Bram Stoker's Dracula, featuring a multinational team of vampire hunters who rely on the latest...
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Brian Lumley, Author Tor Books $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86604-4
Its abundance of futuristic technojargon and gizmology notwithstanding, this sequel to Lumley's 1990 SF adventure, The House of Doors, is a throwback to drive-in B-movies of the 1950s, replete with evil space invaders bent on world domination and...
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Brian Lumley, Author Tor Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86365-4
With this third two-novel volume (after Titus Crow, Vol. One [Forecasts, Nov. 11, 1996] and Titus Crow, Vol. Two [Forecasts, June 9]), Lumley brings two interconnected fantasy series published as paperback originals over a decade ago to a thrill-pack
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Brian Lumley, Author Tor Books $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-86299-2
Although horror writer Lumley is best-known in the U.S. for his Necroscope series, he first achieved international attention for his Titus Crow saga, modeled on H.P. Lovecraft's seminal Cthulhu mythos. This volume, containing the short novels The...
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Brian Lumley, Author Tor Books $25.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85948-0
The epic battle between humanity and evil vampires and werewolves traced in Lumley's massive Necroscope novels continues in this second volume in the saga's Lost Years mini-saga, which began when Harry Keough, the Necroscope, lost his memory and...
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Brian Lumley, Author Tor Books $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85947-3
After a three-book sojourn in the mythical ``Vampire World'' of The Last Aerie (1994), Lumley's epic Necroscope saga returns to contemporary Europe for this ripping yarn of espionage and occult intrigue set during the years separating the second (Vam
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Brian Lumley, Author Tor Books $23.95 (509p) ISBN 978-0-312-85679-3
Concluding the darkly hypnotic Vampire World trilogy (Blood Brothers; The Last Aerie), this red-blooded offering from British Fantasy Award-winner Lumley also brings to a close the epic narrative begun in Vampire World's prequel, the five-book...
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Brian Lumley, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (479p) ISBN 978-0-312-85358-7
Following Blood Brothers , the second volume of the Vampire World series revisits the twin sons of Harry Keogh, a British ESP agent who became a Wamphyri (vampire Lord) in the parallel vampire world of Sunside/Starside. Now one twin, Nestor, himself
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Brian Lumley, Author Tor Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85458-4
In an introductory diatribe against the current vogue of splatterpunk, Lumley ( Blood Brothers ) aligns himself with the old school of horror, which aimed, he reminds us, to entertain as well as horrify. These 13 tales, all previously published in...
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Brian Lumley, Author Tor Books $21.95 (408p) ISBN 978-0-312-85357-0
Vampires, sons borns of mortals, thralls, crones, trogs, the undead, shape-shifters, leeches, hags, flyers, cartilage creatures--all are characters in this diverting if drawn-out tale of the twin sons of Harry Keough. The late Keough (previously...
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Brian Lumley, Author Tor Books $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1075-0
British Fantasy Award\x96winner Lumley pays homage to Robert E. Howard's Conan in the six fantasy tales of his second Primal Land collection (after 2005'sThe House of Cthulhu ). Barbarian Tarra Khash wanders the world of Theem'hdra, an island...
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Brian Lumley, Author Tor Books $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0847-4
Necroscope fans will welcome Brian Lumley's Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes!, featuring three new stories about Keogh (who speaks to and brings comfort to the dead) plus five reprints: three tales of time-traveler Titus Crow and...
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Brian Lumley, Author Tor Books $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-87695-1
Though not strikingly original in theme, the nine stories in Lumley's first collection since A Coven of Vampires (1998) are as punchy and direct in their approach to horror as the author's blood-curdling Necroscope novels. Nearly all feature modern...
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Brian Lumley, Author Tor Books $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-87261-8
The 12th novel in Lumley's Necroscope series shows the hitherto vigorous vampire epic getting long in the tooth. Though it features the usual vast and vivid cast of psychic sleuths and earthly undead monsters, it is noticeably stingy with the plot...
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Brian Lumley, Author Tor Books $7.99 (576p) ISBN 978-0-8125-2061-3
This second volume of two horror novels--part of a cycle published for the first time in England nearly 20 years ago-- should prove a welcome sequel to readers of Titus Crow: Volume One (Forecasts, Nov. 11, 1996). In this double-header, Lumley again
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Brian Lumley, Author . Tor $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-87923-5
This new bottle can't disguise the aging wine of Lumley's Necroscope series or the increasingly stale bouquet of its last few installments. Set in a world where the vampire villains are resurrected as regularly as the cinematic Frankenstein&#
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Brian Lumley, Author . Tor $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-87694-4
This volume of workmanlike shorter fiction from Lumley collects nine early, largely Lovecraft-inspired pieces by the British author of the popular Necroscope series (Necroscope IV: Deadspeak, Forecasts, Oct. 29, etc.). Such homages to H.P.L. as "
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Brian Lumley, Author . Tor $24.95 (318p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0481-0
First published in 1985, this final novel of the Psychomek Trilogy (Psychomek; Psychosphere) features British author Lumley's trademark rapid-fire profusion of characters and horrific events colored with eccentric science. In Lumley's...
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Brian Lumley, Author . Tor $26.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-312-86381-4
The prose equivalent of a graphic novel, British horror mainstay Lumley's latest entry in his enduring Necroscope series (Blood Brothers , etc.) will dazzle some and weary others with its nonstop weird action. Here series hero Harry Keogh, a...
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Brian Lumley, Author . Subterranean $35 (171p) ISBN 978-1-59606-042-5
Those looking for pure pulp fun need look no further than British author Lumley's new collection, whose nine stories gleefully mix SF, fantasy and horror. The opener, "Snarker's Son," a tale of alternate worlds, delivers an...
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Brian Lumley, Author . Tor $25.95 (445p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1609-7
British author Lumley's first Necroscope novel since Necroscope IV: Deadspeak (2001) introduces a new hero, Scott St. John, who, like his late predecessor, Harry Keough, is able to talk to the dead and travel anywhere via Moebius strip. Scott...
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Brian Lumley, Author . Tor $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1077-4
Tarra Khash, Lumley's barbarian hero, meets and defeats no end of wizards, good and evil, discovering the hard way that some villains aren't so bad after all, in the mellow third and final collection of primal land adventures (after The...
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Brian Lumley, Author Tor Books $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86814-7
Vast in scope and overripe with extraordinary characters and incidents, Lumleys proliferating Necroscope saga almost mandates a book-length reference companion. This new novel, the 11th in the series (after Resurgence, 1996) and the first in an...
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Brian Lumley, Author, Allen Koszowski, Illustrator Subterranean Press $35 (85p) ISBN 978-1-59606-004-3
Horror fiction is known for its monsters, and few writers can conjure them with the gory gusto of British author Lumley (Necroscope , etc.). Spanning more than 30 years, the five tales in this slim collection all feature freaks that defy explanation,
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Brian Lumley, Author, Bob Eggleton, Illustrator . Subterranean $40 (279p) ISBN 978-1-59606-125-5
Lumley fans will welcome this collection of seven longer Cthulhu Mythos tales from the prolific British author (Necroscope ), on whom H.P. Lovecraft was an important influence. One of the earlier selections, “The Horror at Oakdeene,” set
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Brian Lumley, Author, Bob Eggleton, Illustrator . Subterranean $40 (424p) ISBN 978-1-59606-165-1
British novelist Lumley began his writing career as an H.P. Lovecraft emulator. This nostalgic collection, the second of two volumes (after 2007’s The Taint and Other Novellas ) of Lumley’s best Cthulhu Mythos tales, demonstrates that...
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Brian Lumley, Author, Bob Eggleton, Illustrator . Subterranean $35 (178p) ISBN 978-1-59606-272-6
Lumley reveals perhaps more than he intended to in the note following this turgid supernatural novella, originally intended to be a chapter in his 1995 two-part novel, The Lost Years . Having promised his publisher a vampire tale, Lumley remembered...
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Brian Lumley, illus. by Bob Eggleton. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $35 (224p) ISBN 978-1-59606-348-8
Based on this paltry effort, it would be extremely difficult to justify Lumley's Horror Writers Association and World Fantasy lifetime achievement awards. In a tired post-apocalyptic setting, a ragged small band of surviving humans battle for their...
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Brian Lumley. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $40 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59606-434-8
This collection rounds out a three-volume set of the best short works by British horror icon Lumley (The Taint and Other Novellas; Haggopian and Other Stories), delicately illustrated by Bob Eggleton. In theory, the book concentrates on Lumley’s non-
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Brian Lumley. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $35 (192p) ISBN 978-1-59606-554-3
Histrionic italics and exclamation points ("—Only to freeze in that position as irresistible fingers grasped his wrists and drew him effortlessly up!") are symptomatic of these 11 heavy-handed stories featuring occult investigator Titus Crow. Their...
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Brian Lumley. Subterranean (subterraneanpress.com), $40 (608p) ISBN 978-1-59606-689-2
Inspired by the pulp fantasies of H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Clark Ashton Smith, Lumley’s (Necroscope) tales of the land of Theem’hdra—originally collected in three volumes in 1991—come together to form a rousing sword and sorcery epic...
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