The Taint and other novellas: Best Mythos Tales Volume 1 (Cthulhu Collection)

1. Brian Lumley is a legend of horror writing. 2. Will appeal to fans of H.P. Lovecraft, as well as other horror lovers 3. Guaranteed high profile review coverage 4. Lumley and Lovecraft are perennial best sellers A collection of thrilling tales from H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos by one of horror's biggest legends. This volume contains the very best of Brian Lumley's Mythos novellas.

 

A collection of thrilling tales from H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos by one of horror's biggest legends. This volume contains the very best of Brian Lumley's Mythos novellas.

 

 

 

Publishers Weekly

Lumley fans will welcome this collection of seven longer Cthulhu Mythos tales from the prolific British author (Necroscope), on whom H.P. Lovecraft was an important influence. One of the earlier selections, "The Horror at Oakdeene," set in an insane asylum full of inmates familiar with the Mythos, amounts to apprentice work highly derivative of Lovecraft. Another early effort, "Born of the Winds," shows more originality by mixing the usual Lovecraftian imagery (e.g., "cyclopean submarine cities of mad angles and proportions") with the Wendigo and Ithaqua, "wind-walkers" who first appeared respectively in tales by Algernon Blackwood and August Derleth. Perhaps most memorable is the 2005 title story, which, despite being set in Lovecraft's haunted seaport of Innsmouth, avoids Mythos clichés and comes across as distinctly the author's own. (Oct.)

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A collection of thrilling tales inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos from one of horror's biggest legends. This volume contains the very best of Brian Lumley's Mythos novellas spanning the entire breadth of his illustrious career.