Brian Lumley

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:06 pm

Rodr-Evil wrote:on topic, how much books of titus crow exist?

Too many.

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:31 am

So... one?

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:12 pm

One would count, but . . .

six novels, 11 short stories (according to Wikipedia).

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:22 pm

Ouch.

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:37 pm

When Lumley dies, Lovecraft will greet him on the other side . . . with a bitch slap.

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:47 am

Only when he's finished with Derleth.

Rodr-Evil · Post by **Rodr-Evil** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:51 am

wow that is really too many..

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 11:46 am

Jesus Prime wrote:Only when he's finished with Derleth.

You think he's still working him over?

Howie is probably just jealous that he doesn't have a memorial bridge like Augie does.

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:55 pm

Another reason to keep working him over. Plus, I'm still none-too-pleased with Derleth's take on the mythos, and I have the attention span of a magpie in Liberachi's house.

Double Yuggoth · Post by **Double Yuggoth** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:36 pm

Lumley purposely tried to make his stuff more action based than Lovecraft. He wrote somewhere that he couldn't stand to have all his characters fainting.

I agree some of his stuff isn't that great, but "Return of the Deep Ones" is awesome. While not really Mythos, the short story "Snarker's Son" is wonderfully creepy.

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 11:16 pm

Double Yuggoth wrote:Lumley purposely tried to make his stuff more action based than Lovecraft. He wrote somewhere that he couldn't stand to have all his characters fainting.

I respect that. Personally, I have trouble with the rampant loss of sanity in Mythos tales; it just doesn't jive with human nature.

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 11:45 pm

human nature is irrelevant!

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:45 am

Locutia!

a_Lex · Post by **a_Lex** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:18 am

Well, IMHO the smaller of Lumeley stories are... decent.
Titus Crow sucks, however, and it sucks in almost any way imaginable.

Also, Lumeley's way of scientifically explaining away Mythos entities is lame. Not because it is a wrong thing to do, as Lovecraft actually leaned strongly towards sci-fi, but because Lumeley is quite lame when dealing with "science" in science fiction...

Rodr-Evil · Post by **Rodr-Evil** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 12:56 pm

Nobody loves Titus Crow.