Normally, when readers seen
Brian Lumley's byline on a book – especially one with the amazing jacket
art of Bob Eggleton – the names of several colourful fictional
characters spring to mind: heroes such as Harry Keogh, the eponymous
Necroscope, or perhaps the occult investigator Titus Crow. While these
may be the author's best-known heroes; however, they are only two of a
large handful, which is why it may come as something of a surprise this
time around to discover that the so-called "hero" of this current
trilogy of tales... isn't!
No, for this lesser-known
character isn't so much a typical Lumley hero as an innocent bystander
who all too often seems to be standing by in the wrong place at the
wrong time – a man in collision with various weird horrors who can never
state definitely that the things he experiences are real. After
all, someone who sees a few too many pink elephants may question almost
anything he experiences, right?
So here he is – the neither hero nor anti-hero narrator of these stories – though in The Nonesuch he's at least seen to be brave if not actually heroic. However, when
you've done reading this small trilogy, you might like to ask yourself
this: pitted against horrors like those in these stories, just how much
of a hero would you be?
Contents:
- Introduction
- The Thin People
- Stilts
- The Nonesuch (a new novella)
