Edited by Brian Lumley and multiple Bram Stoker Award winner Stanley
Wiater, The Brian Lumley Companion is an indispensable guide to the
life and works of Brian Lumley. The Companion is illustrated with
photographs from the author's private collection and full-color
reproductions of Hugo Award-winning artist Bob Eggleton's eye-catching
cover art for Lumley's works.
Contributors to The Brian Lumley Companion include some of today's most
noted experts on horror fiction, including W. Paul Ganley, founder of
Weirdbook Press and two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award; Stephen
Jones, coeditor of Horror: 100 Best Books and winner of multiple World
Fantasy, British Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Awards; Robert M. Price,
author of H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos and one of the most
respected analysts of Lovecraftian fiction; Robert G. Weinberg, an
acknowledged specialist in weird fiction, and Stanley Wiater, host of
the TV series "Dark Dreamers."
In The Brian Lumley Companion, Lumley aficionados will find an overview
of Lumley's career, from his first short fiction up to the present day;
essays comparing Lumley and H. P. Lovecraft, a lengthy interview with
the author that delves into the heart of Lumley's relationship with the
writers and editors who inspired him and the fans who support him, and
analyses of Lumley's short fiction and novels. An interview with Bob
Eggleton gives insight into the development of his striking covers for
the Necroscope series and other Lumley works.
This companion also includes complete listings of the first
publications of each of Lumley's novels, short fiction, and poetry.
Major attractions are the detailed concordances that focus on
individual novels and series, including the three Psychomech titles,
the Dreamlands and Primal Lands series, and each volume in theNecroscope series.
As a special treat, The Brian Lumley Companion includes three
short short stories by Brian Lumley, works that have never before
appeared in book form.
