The Taint and Other Novellas: Best Mythos Tales, Volume One

by Brian Lumley

Overview

A collection of thrilling tales from H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos by one of horror's biggest legends

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.

From Rising With Surtsey through to the eponymous The Taint, these tales plumb the very depths of horror and show Lumley at his twisted best.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844166374
Publisher:	Rebellion
Publication date:	10/28/2008
Series:	Mythos Tales , #1
Edition description:	US ed
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Brian Lumley is the author of the Necroscope series and many other novels of horror, adventure, and science fiction, including Khai of Khem, the Titus Crow series, and the Tales of The Primal Land. Lumley has won the British Fantasy Award for his short fiction.

Editorial Reviews

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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