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)

External links

• Brian Lumley's Web Site

• The Ultimate Cthulhu Mythos Book List - Listing of all mythos novels, anthologies, collections, comic books, and more.

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