Note:  if you want just one or two of these titles, please search for them in my eBay store...  they are now listed individually — if you find one missing, please let me know!!!!

Here's a short quote from a review in Baryon magazine: "I started reading Lumley with his first book, The Caller of the Black from Arkham House and have followed his growth as a writer and a storyteller and even after a few years, these stories read as fresh as if they were just written.  Thanks to Brian for a pair of adventurous tales..."

The Great Old Ones (as H P Lovecraft originally told us) existed long before the dawn of the human race. They conquered worlds, fought incredible battles, and mastered magic and science. Yet to us they seemed evil. And since that era, unable to be killed, they have been imprisoned in special places: Cthulhu in aeon-sunken R'lyeh; Hastur in the lake of Hali in Carcosa; Ithaqua in the wastes of the Arctic, etc. But they have their worshippers who seek to free them...

The Cthulhu Mythos was devised by H P Lovecraft, and extensively utilized in such stories as "The Call of Cthulhu." Furthermore, he urged his author-friends to add to the Mythos. As stories by Robert E. Howard, Henry Kuttner, Robert Bloch, and August Derleth poured forth, the mythos grew ... and in some ways became very different from his original conception. One of the many modern writers (such as Ramsey Campbell, Stephen King, the list is almost endless) who have used the concept of the mythos is Brian Lumley.

But who imprisoned the Great Old Ones? One answer to this is the Elder Gods who live in Elysia, a mysterious land not in our universe.

In these books Lumley continued his fantasy/horror/SF/adventure series, following what seemed to be the end of both Titus Crow and his friend deMarigny at the end of "The Burrowers Beneath."  (Incidentally that first book in the series is out of print in the original "Ganley" hard cover edition; so is "The Compleat Crow," the short-story collection, both in the hard cover and trade paperback "Ganley" versions.  I don't have any for sale... but they may be obtainable from rare-book dealers.)   The artists have produced not only the dust jacket illustrations but also anywhere from 8 or 9 full page interiors to as many as 17.  Even if you have some of these novels in other editions, you may enjoy having these illustrated first hard cover editions.