Brian Lumley_Titus Crow Series #.05-#6 (Horror)

'He was tall and broad-shouldered, and it was plain to see that in his younger days he had been a handsome man. Now...his hair had greyed a little, and his eyes, though still very bright and observant, bore the imprint of many a year spent exploring--and often, I guessed, discovering--along rarely trodden paths of mysterious, obscure learning.'

Mysterious, obscure learning...

To many thousands of readers world-wide Titus Crow is the psychic sleuth--the cosmic voyager and investigator--of Brian Lumley's Cthulhu Mythos novels, from The Burrowers Beneath to Elysia.

But before The Burrowers and Crow's Transition, his exploits were chronicled in a series of short stories and novellas uncollected in the USA except in limited editions. Now these stories can be told again. From Inception which tells of Crow's origins, to The Black Recalled, a tale of vengeance from beyond the grave, here in one volume, from the best-selling author of the epic Necroscope series, is The Complete Crow.



For millennia, men have strutted their pride over the fragile surface of the Earth, arrogantly proclaiming themselves masters of creation. But now their feeble investigations have disturbed the planet's original rulers far beneath the globe's crust.



THE TRANSITION OF TITUS CROW: Continues the exploits of Titus Crow, chronicled in the Burrowers Beneath (-30-6). "Transition" is second in Lumley's "Cthulhu Mythos" series: five novels originally published in paperback in the seventies, plus the concluding novel. Elysia: the coming of Cthulhu. (HC, - 33-0)** When this project is completed, all six will be available in first edition hard covers. (See THE COMPLEAT CROW (HC, - 22-5)** for associated shorter fiction). Employing some of the characters & locales invented by H. P. Lovecraft, Lumley creates horror-fantasy & adventure stories (with science-fiction overtones), as humans seek the Elder Gods & dare to battle the maligned "Old Ones." These powerful entitites from another universe were imprisoned by the mysterious Elder Gods after a titanic battle aeons ago. But their leader, Great Cthulhu, plots not only to escape but to destroy earth & ravage Elysia, mysterious & hidden place where dwell the Elder Gods. And some have escaped already. Occultists Titus Crow, de Marigny. & others attempt to forestall them if possible. (**Also available in trade paper. Check the author's listing for similar books.)



In the Clock of Dreams, Cthulhu, one of the Elder Gods, sleeps and dreams - dreams so potent, so powerful, that they can warp reality itself. The mysterious Clock that is capable of hurling men through space and time, even into the monster's dreams, is de Marigny's only hope of finding Titus Crow and saving him from a soul destroying fate.



Stolen from Earth by Ithaqua the Wind-Walker and transported to the alien world of Borea, a team of ERP-talented earthmen are faced with a terrible choice: join with the Thing That Walks on the Wind in his eternal war with Armandra and the People of the Plateau, and become his mindless slaces or side with Armandra and risk the perils of the Plateau - especially its Cavern of Madness! Such a choice might seem easy, for at least the People of the Plateau are human...but is Armandra herself human As Ithaqua's daughter, who can say which way her loyalties will turn when the chips are down and Ithaqua walks on the wind?



Following the Timelock, the Quester, de Maringy, finds himself on the parallel universe of Borea. Borea - ice-planet - is a ravaged arena of psychic combat between the Warlord of the Plateau, Armandra and the Wind-Walker. This is the sequel to "The Clock of Dreams" and "Spawn of the Winds".



The Titus Crow novels are full of acts of nobility and heroism. Titus Crow and his faithful companion fight the forces of darkness--the infamous and deadly Elder Gods of H.P. Lovecraft--wherever they arise. The powerful Cthulhu and his dark minions are bent on ruling the earth--or destroying it, yet time after time, Titus Crow drives the monsters back into the dark from whence they came.