![]() ![]() ![]() In March to September 1984 he wrote his dead-waking, ground-breaking horror novel Necroscope(R), featuring Harry Keogh, the man who can talk to dead people. Lovecraft's "Dreamlands milieu" to complete, during the writing of which he began the "Psychomech" trilogy, the very first of his works (with the exception of a handful of short stories) to be published in the United Kingdom. he still had a projected series of four books in H. Having "retired" from the Army in December 1980, Lumley became "a professional author" (he had never really considered himself that way before) and of necessity began to write in earnest. But by then: "it was time for the serious stuff!" One was a short novel with the title Beneath the Moors the others were collections of short stories and novellas: "The Caller of The Black" and "The Horror at Oakdeene." These stories, set mainly in Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos milieu, echoed HPL's literary style: a somewhat archaic, adjectival mode of writing which, during the course of Lumley's military career, he would gradually eschew in favour of his own very distinctive style.ĭespite that Lumley completed a full term of 22 years with the RMP - during which time he rose to the rank of Warrant Officer and, in his final years, served as the WO Chief Instruction (the DI) at the RMP Depot and Training Establishment - still he managed to write and see published his three Arkham books plus the first of the six paperback novels in his Titus Crow series, and the stand-alone novel, "Khai of Ancient Khem," while he was still a soldier. And the rest, as they say, is history.ĭerleth included stories by Lumley in a number of Arkham House anthologies and went on to publish three of the author's books. Then, after Derleth had read various "extracts" from the Necronomicon and other fictional "Black Books" of the so-called Cthulhu Mythos, which Lumley had included in his letters, he asked if the aspiring author had anything solid he could use in a book he was preparing for publication, to be entitled Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. This culminated in his contacting HPL's publisher August Derleth in Sauk City, "Wisconsin, in order to purchase the one or two volumes still missing from his collection. Later still, in his early twenties while serving with the Corps of Royal Military Police in Germany, on finding a collection of stories by Lovecraft himself, Lumley began searching for every available item of the author's work. Then, in his early teens - as a result of reading Robert Bloch's Lovecraft pastiche Notebook Found in a Deserted House in a British SF magazine - he became more surely attracted to macabre fiction, an attraction that has lasted a lifetime. By his pre-teens Lumley had read Dracula and some other horror classics, but having followed the adventures of Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future in the British Eagle comic, his first love was Science Fiction. Born 2nd December, 1937, Brian Lumley came into the world just nine months after the most obvious of his forebears - meaning of course a "literary" forebear, namely, H. ![]()
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