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 authors private collection and full-color reproductions of Hugo Awardwinning artist Bob Eggletons eye-catching cover art for Lumleys works.
Contributors to The Brian Lumley Companion include some of todays 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 Lumleys 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 Lumleys relationship with the writers and editors who inspired him and the fans who support him, and analyses of Lumleys 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 Lumleys 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 the Necroscope 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.
- ISBN10 0765304406
- ISBN13 9780765304407
- Publish Date 11 July 2006 (first published 16 November 2002)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Tor Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 408
- Language English