var isReferenceAnswers = true; BodyLoad('s'); On this page Library Health History, Politics, Society ... Technology Brian Lumley The Vampire Book: Lumley, Brian Home Library Miscellaneous Vampires Brian Lumley, author of the Necroscope series of vampire books, was born on December 2, 1937, in Horden, Durham, England. Trained as a lawyer, he joined the British army in the 1950s and served in Germany and in Cyprus. He was in Cyprus when he began to write seriously, and the island inspired his first professional short story, "The Cyprus Shell." It and others were collected to make his first book, The Caller of the Black, published by Arkham House in 1970. Arkham House specialized in books in the H. P. Lovecraft horror tradition. Lumley adopted the Lovecraft myth of cthulhu, the idea of ancient demonic forces that had been pushed aside by the forces of civilization but lay just beneath the surface of civilization awaiting any opportunity to return to power. This myth stood behind his first novels, The Burrowers Beneath (1974) and Beneath the Moors (1974), and most of his subsequent writings. | |
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