Bibliography

In chronological order and first publication only.

 THE NOVELS AND COLLECTIONS: Updated March 2024.

 

The Caller of The Black. Arkham House, 1971. (US) Hardcover. Contents: A Thing About Cars, The Cyprus Shell, Billy’s Oak, The Writer in the Garret, The Caller of The Black, The Mirror of Nitocris, The Night Sea-Maid Went Down, The Thing from the Blasted Heath, An Item of Supporting Evidence, Dylath-Leen, de Marigny’s Clock, Ambler’s Inspiration, In the Vaults Beneath, The Pearl

Beneath the Moors. Arkham House, 1974. (US) Hardcover.

The Burrowers Beneath. DAW Books, Inc., 1974. (US) Paperback.

The Transition of Titus Crow. DAW Books, Inc., 1975. (US) Paperback.

The Horror at Oakdeene and Others. Arkham House, 1977. (US) Hardcover. Contents: The Viking’s Stone, Aunt Hester, No Way Home, The Horror at Oakdeene, The Cleaner Woman, The Statement of Henry Worthy, Darghud’s Doll, Born of the Winds.

The Clock of Dreams. Jove/HBJ, Inc., 1978. (US) Paperback.

Spawn of the Winds. Jove/HBJ, Inc., 1978. (US) Paperback.

In the Moons of Borea. Jove/HBJ, Inc., 1979. (US) Paperback.

Khai of Ancient Khem. Berkley Publishing, 1981. (US) Paperback.

Ghoul Warning and Other Omens. (Poetry) Spectre Press, 1982. (UK) Hardcover and paperback. Contents: Introduction, Ghoul Warning, Nyctalops, Y’ha-nthlei, Tindalos, Kraken, Old Houses Know Too Much, Enough, The Immortal Sword, Last of the Lizards, Whistler, Visions From Aeons … Dead?, Amber Man, Author! Author!, The Sea, The Unbearable, Black Prayer, Loup Garou, Foundling, In Pressure-Pounded Chasms, Survivors, Witch, Witching Hour, Inmate, A Cry at Night, Mirrors at Midnight, I Am the Bat, The Dreamer Wakes, City Out of Time, The Warlord, Sword, Warhorse, Good God! – Goodrod,” Afterword.

Ghoul Warning and Other Omens. (Poetry) Spectre Press, 1982. (UK) Hardcover and paperback. Contents: Introduction, Ghoul Warning, Nyctalops, Y’ha-nthlei, Tindalos, Kraken, Old Houses Know Too Much, Enough, The Immortal Sword, Last of the Lizards, Whistler, Visions From Aeons … Dead?, Amber Man, Author! Author!, The Sea, The Unbearable, Black Prayer, Loup Garou, Foundling, In Pressure-Pounded Chasms, Survivors, Witch, Witching Hour, Inmate, A Cry at Night, Mirrors at Midnight, I Am the Bat, The Dreamer Wakes, City Out of Time, The Warlord, Sword, Warhorse, Good God! – Goodrod,” Afterword.

The House of Cthulhu. Weirdbook Press, 1984. (US) Hardcover and paperback. Contents: Introduction, How Kank Thad Returned to Bhur-Esh, The Sorcerer’s Book, The House of Cthulhu, Tharquest and the Lamia Orbiquita, To Kill a Wizard, Cryptically Yours, Mylakhrion the Immortal, The Wine of the Wizard, The Sorcerer’s Dream.

Psychomech. Panther Books, Granada Publishing Ltd., 1984, (UK). Paperback.

Psychosphere. Panther Books, Granada Publishing Ltd., 1984, (UK). Paperback.

Psychamok. Panther Books, Granada Publishing Ltd., 1985, (UK). Paperback.

Hero of Dreams. W. Paul Ganley, 1986. (US) Slip-cased, signed, deluxe hardcover, trade hardcover, and trade paperback.

Ship of Dreams. W. Paul Ganley, 1986. (US) Slip-cased, signed, deluxe hardcover, trade hardcover, and trade paperback.

Necroscope®. Grafton, 1986, (UK). Paperback.

The Compleat Crow. W. Paul Ganley, 1987. (US) Slip-cased, signed, deluxe hardcover, trade hardcover, and trade paperback. Contents: Introduction, Inception, Lord of the Worms, The Caller of The Black, The Viking’s Stone, The Mirror of Nitocris, An Item of Supporting Evidence, Billy’s Oak, Darghud’s Doll, de Marigny’s Clock, Name and Number, The Black Recalled.

Mad Moon of Dreams. W. Paul Ganley, 1987. (US) Slip-cased, signed, deluxe hardcover, trade hardcover, and trade paperback.

Demogorgon. Grafton, 1987, (UK). Paperback.

Synchronicity, or Something. Dagon Press, 1988, (UK). A novelette in pamphlet format.

Necroscope® II: Wamphyri! Grafton, 1989, (UK). Paperback.

Necroscope® III: The Source. Grafton, 1989, (UK). Paperback.

Elysia: The Coming of Cthulhu. W. Paul Ganley, 1989. (US) Slip-cased, signed, deluxe hardcover, trade hardcover, and trade paperback.

The House of Doors. TOR Books, 1990. (US) Paperback.

Iced on Aran and Other Dream Quests. Headline, 1990, (UK). Paperback. Contents: Iced on Aran, Augeren, A Day in the Life, A-mazed in Oriab, Tale’s Tail.

Necroscope® IV: Deadspeak. TOR Books, 1990. (US) Paperback.

The Compleat Khash: Volume One: Never a Backward Glance. W. Paul Ganley, 1991. (US) Slip-cased, signed, deluxe hardcover, trade hardcover, and trade paperback. Contents: Treasurer of the Scarlet Scorpion, Isles of the Suhm-Yi, Told in the Desert, Curse of the Golden Guardians, Kiss of the Lamia, In the Temple of Terror.

Necroscope® V: Deadspawn. TOR Books, 1991. (US) Paperback.

Vampire World I: Blood Brothers. TOR Books, 1992. (US) Hardcover. A Necroscope® novel.

The Last Rite. Jwindz, 1992. (US) Deluxe hardcover, paperback, and “defective” paperback copies. Contents: Introduction, Vanessa’s Voice, The Thing from the Blasted Heath, Back Row, A Thing About Cars, The Last Rite, Uzzi.

Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi. TOR Books, 1993. (US) Hardcover. Contains: Introduction, Fruiting Bodies, The Man Who Photographed Beardsley, The Man Who Felt Pain, The Viaduct, Recognition, No Way Home, The Pit-Yakker, The Mirror of Nitocris, Necros, The Thin People, The Cyprus Shell, The Deep-Sea Conch, Born of the Winds.

Vampire World II: The Last Aerie. TOR Books, 1993. (US) Hardcover. A Necroscope® novel.

The Return of the Deep Ones and Other Mythos Tales. Penguin/Roc, 1994, (UK). Paperback. Contents: Foreword, Inception, Lord of the Worms, Beneath the Moors, The Return of the Deep Ones.

Dagon’s Bell and Other Discords. Hodder & Stoughton, NEL, 1994, (UK). Paperback. Contents: Introduction, Dagon’s Bell, No Sharks in the Med, In the Glow-Zone, The Caller of the Black, The Picnickers, The Fairground Horror, Problem Child, Aunt Hester, The Whisperer, The Statement of Henry Worthy, The Strange Years, Big ‘C’, The Disapproval of Jeremy Cleave.

Vampire World III: Bloodwars. TOR Books, 1994. (US) Hardcover. A Necroscope® novel.

The Second Wish and Other Exhalations. Hodder & Stoughton, NEL, 1995, (UK). Paperback. Contents: Introduction, The Second Wish, The Sun, the Sea, and the Silent Scream, de Marigny’s Clock, The Luststone, Mother Love, What Dark God?, The Thief Immortal, The House of the Temple, Back Row, Name and Number, Snarker’s Son, Rising With Surtsey, David’s Worm.

Necroscope®: The Lost Years, Volume I. Hodder & Stoughton, 1995, (UK). Hardcover.

Necroscope®: The Lost Years, Volume II. Hodder & Stoughton, 1996. (UK) Hardcover. US Title: Necroscope®: Resurgence.

Brian Lumley’s Mythos Omnibus, Volume One. HarperCollins, 1997, (UK). Paperback. Contents: The Burrowers Beneath, The Transition of Titus Crow, The Clock of Dreams.

Brian Lumley’s Mythos Omnibus, Volume Two. HarperCollins, 1997, (UK). Paperback. Contents: Spawn of the Winds, In the Moons of Borea, Elysia.

In His Own Write, Brian Lumley: Necroscribe. Necronomicon Press, 1997. (US) Chapbook. Contents: Foreword, The Thing in the Moonlight (by Lovecraft/Lumley), The Writer in the Garret, Synchronicity, or Something.

A Coven of Vampires. Fedogan & Bremer, 1998. (US) Signed, deluxe slipcase hardcover, and in hardcover. Contents: Foreword, What Dark God?, Back Row, The Strange Years, The Kiss of the Lamia, Recognition, The Thief Immortal, Necros, The Thing From the Blasted Heath, Uzzi, Haggopian, The Picnickers, Zack Phalanx IS Vlad the Impaler!, The House of the Temple.

The House of Doors: Second Visit. Hodder & Stoughton, 1998, (UK). Hardcover. US Title: Maze of Worlds.

Ghoul Warning and Other Omens … and Other Omens. Jointly published by W. Paul Ganley and Necronomicon Press, 1999. (US) Hardcover and paperback Contents: Preface, Introduction, Acrostics: Nyctalops; Tindalos; The Warlord; Weirdbook; Dylath-Leen; Fantasy Tales; Y’ha-Nthlei; Kadath; The Wind-Walker; Escape!. The “Stories:” City Out of Time; Old Houses Know Too Much; Shadow Man; Sea Fret; Survivors; A Cry At Night; In Pressure-Pounded Chasms; The Immortal Sword; Dream; Loup Garou; Last of the Lizards; Swamp Call; Mammoth Rider; Whistler; Sword; Foundling; Enough; Warhorse; Amber Man. Odds and Ends: Ghoul Warning; The Sea; Da Vinci’s Ghost; Witching Hour; Author! Author!; Inmate; Destiny; Kraken; I Am the Bat; Mirrors at Midnight; Black Prayer; The Unbearable; The Dreamer Wakes; Visions From Aeons ... Dead?; Good God! –, Goodrod; Witch; Three “Stories” in Fifty Words Each: The Do-it-yourself Carpenter, War of the Worlds II: Earthlings V Pondlings; Decreation. Preface to original. Afterword to original. NOTE: Weirdbook, Dylath-Leen, Kadath, Escape!, Da Vinci’s Ghost were not in the original Ghoul.

E-Branch: Invaders. Hodder & Stoughton, 1999, (UK). Hardcover.

Necroscope: Defilers. TOR Books, 2000. (US) Hardcover.

Necroscope: Avengers. Hodder & Stoughton, 2001, (UK). Hardcover.

The Whisperer and Other Voices. TOR Books, 2001. (US) Hardcover. Contents: Introduction, Snarker’s Son, Aunt Hester, The Whisperer, No Sharks in the Med, Vanessa’s Voice, The Statement of Henry Worthy, The Disapproval of Jeremy Cleave, The Luststone, and the complete novel The Return of the Deep Ones.

Beneath the Moors and Darker Places. TOR Books, 2002. (US) Hardcover. Contents: Introduction, David’s Worm, Dagon’s Bell, The Sun, the Sea, and the Silent Scream, The Second Wish, A Thing About Cars, Rising With Surtsey, Big ‘C’, The Fairground Horror, and the complete novel Beneath the Moors.

Brian Lumley Companion, The. TOR Books, 2002, edited by Brian Lumley and Stanley Wiater. (US) Hardcover slipcase limited to 400 and standard hardcover. In depth interview, articles, complete A-Z of the Necroscope novels and some others as well.

Harry Keogh: Necroscope® & Other Weird Heroes. TOR Books, 2003. (US) Hardcover. Contents: Introduction, Titus Crow: Inception, Lord of the Worms, Name and Number. Hero & Eldin: The Weird Wines of Naxas Niss, The Stealer of Dreams. Harry Keogh: Necroscope®: Dead Eddy, Dinosaur Dreams, Resurrection.

Sixteen Sucking Stories. Delirium Books, Ultra Collectors Series, 2003. (US) Hardcover. Contains: Introduction, The Caller of the Black, What Dark God?, Back Row, The Strange Years, Kiss of the Lamia, Recognition, The Thief Immortal, Necros, The Thing From the Blasted Heath, Uzzi, Haggopian, The Picnickers, Zack Phalanx Is Vlad the Impaler, Auguren, The Mirror of Nitocris, The Black Recalled.

The House of the Temple. Endeavor Press Novelette Series, 2004. (US) Hardcover. Contents: Introduction, The House of the Temple, Swamped.

Brian Lumley’s Freaks. Subterranean Press, 2004. (US) Hardcover. Contains: Foreword, In the Glow Zone, Problem Child, The Ugly Act, Mother Love, Somebody Calling.

Khai of Khem. Tor Books 2004. (US) Hardcover.

Screaming Science Fiction. Subterranean Press, 2006. (US) Hardcover. Contains: Foreword, Snarker’s Son, The Man Who Felt Pain, The Strange Years, No Way Home, The Man Who Saw No Spiders, Deja Viewer, Feasibility Study, Gaddy’s Gloves, Big 'C.’

Necroscope®: The Touch. Tor Books June 2006. (US) Hardcover. Necroscope®. Subterranean Press 2006. (US) Deluxe slipcase. Numbered Slipcase. Standard Hardcover.

A Coven of Vampires. Subterranean Press 2007. (US) Numbered and standard hardcover plus a chapbook which contains Clean Slate and the trade paperback. Contents: What Dark God?, Back Row, The Strange Years, The Kiss of the Lamia, Recognition, The Thief Immortal, Necros, The Thing from the Blasted Heath, Uzzi, Haggopian, The Picknickers, Zack Phalanx Is Vlad the Impaler, The House of the Temple.

The Taint and Other Novellas. Subterranean Press 2007. (US) Hardcover. Lettered, numbered and trade paperback. Contents: The Horror at Oakdeene, Born of the Winds, The Fairground Horror, The Taint, Rising with Surtsey, Lord of the Worms, The House of the Temple.

Haggopian and Other Stories. Subterranean Press 2007. (US) Hardcover. Lettered, numbered and standard hardcover. Contents: The Caller of The Black, Haggopian, Cement Surroundings, The House of Cthulhu, The Night Sea-Maid Went Down, Name and Number, Recognition, Curse of the Golden Guardians, Aunt Hester, The Kiss of Bugg-Shash, De Marigny’s Clock, Mylakhrion the Immortal, The Sister City, What Dark God?, The Statement of Henry Worth, Dagon’s Bell, The Thing from the Blasted Heath, Dylath-Leen, The Mirror of Nitocris, The Second Wish, The Hymn, Synchronicity or Something, The Black Recalled, The Sorcerer’s Dream.

Necroscope®: Harry and the Pirates. Tor Books 2009. (US) Hardcover. Contents: For the Dead Travel Slowly, Harry and the Pirates, Old Man With A Blade.

The Nonesuch. Subterranean Press 2009. (US) Lettered and standard hardcover. Contents: The Thin People, Stilts, The Nonesuch.

The Fly-by-Nights. Subterranean Press 2010. (US) Hardcover.

Necroscope®: The Plague-Bearer. Subterranean Press 2011. (US) Hardcover.

No Sharks In The Med & Other Stories. 2012. Subterranean Press. Hardcover. Contains: Introduction, Fruiting Bodies, The Sun, The Sea, and the Silent Scream, The Picknickers, The Viaduct, The Luststone, The Whisperer, No Sharks in the Med, The Pit-Yakker, The Place of Waiting, The Man Who Killed Kew Gardens, My Thing Friday, The Disapproval of Jeremy Cleave.

Necroscope®: The Möbius Murders. Subterranean Press 2013. (US) Hardcover.

The Compleat Crow: Subterranean Press 2014. (US) Hardcover. Contents: Introduction, Inception, Lord of the Worms, The Caller of The Black, The Viking’s Stone, The Mirror of Nitocris, An Item of Supporting Evidence, Billy’s Oak, Darghud’s Doll, de Marigny’s Clock, Name and Number, The Black Recalled.

The Primal Land Trilogy: Subterranean Press 2015. (US) Hardcover. The House of Cthulhu, Tarra Khash: Hrossak!, Sorcery in Shad.

The Gathering: Fedogan & Bremer 2017. (US) Contents: Lord of the Worms, Born of the Winds, The Gathering, The Changeling.

Necroscope®: Harry and the Pirates. Solaris, UK 2017. (US) Hardcover. Contents: For the Dead Travel Slowly, Harry and the Pirates, Old Man With A Blade, Dead Eddy, Dinosaur Dreams, Resurrection.

Necroscope®: The Last of the Lost Years, Volume One, Crossroad Press, 2020, Kindle. Contents: In Dublin’s Fair City, Dinosaur Dreams, The Plague-Bearer, Harry and the Pirates.

Necroscope® The Last of the Lost Years, Volume Two, Crossroad Press, 2020, Kindle. Contents: Dead Eddy, Mobius Murders, For the Dead Travel Slowly Old Man With a Blade, Resurrection.

Short Tall Tales: Crossroad Press 2023, Trade paperback, Kindle. Contents: The Man in the Dream (with H. P. Lovecraft), Late Shopping, Spider in the Bath, Memory, The Lecture, Hell is a Personal Place, Problem Child, The Sorcerer’s Dream, Mother Love, Not a Creature was Stirring, In the Glow Zone, Little Man Lost, Snarker’s Son, What Dark God?, The Strange Years, The Man Who Saw No Spiders, Swamped, A Really Game Boy, A Dreamer’s Tale, In Dublin’s Fair City. Three stories in 50 words or less and four favourite poems from Ghoul Warning.

The Best of the Rest: Crossroad Press 2023, Trade paperback, Kindle. Contents: The Challenge, The Man Who Photographed Beardsley, The Cyprus Shell, Clean Slate, The Deep-Sea Conch, The Ugly Act, Irving’s Story, The Running Man, Somebody Calling, Vanessa’s Voice, The Vehicle, Mandraki, Two Stone Tom, The Long Last Night, The Weird Wines of Naxas Niss, The Stealer of Dreams.

 

Unfinished or never to be published.

 

Kiss, Kiss (2018) Finished. A horror novella. Unfortunately, this will never see publication and it’s against Brian’s wishes … however, it was a good one.

Christmas Village, The (2019) Unfinished, but would have been another good novella.

A Mist from the Abyss Unfinished novella.

Underdog Unfinished novella.

Goo Unfinished novella.

Vegas Vampires Unfinished novella.

The Cold Blue Glow of Gold (2023) Unfinished novella. This was the last after story that Brian was working on before he became ill. It was a rewrite of the story Spaghetti which he was turning into a Mythos novella. And this again would have been a good one.

 

THE STORIES:

(Arranged Alphabetically … English Language … First Publications.) Updated March 2024.

 

A Malediction. Written for the JerseyDevilCon, Souvenior Convention Book, April 2003. (US)

A Place of Waiting. (2003) The Ghost Quartet, Tor Books, 2008. (US)

A Really Game Boy. Dark Terrors 2, edited by Steve Jones and David Sutton, published by Victor Gollancz, an imprint of the Cassell Group, 1996. (UK)

A Thing About Cars. The Caller of the Black, published by Arkham House, 1971. (US)

A-mazed in Oriab. Iced on Aran and Other Dream Quests, published by W. Paul Ganley’s Weirdbook Press, 1990. (US)

Ambler’s Inspiration. The Caller of the Black, published by Arkham House, 1971. (US)

An Item of Supporting Evidence. The Arkham Collector, No. 7, Summer 1970, edited and published by August Derleth for Arkham House. (US)

Augeren. Iced on Aran and Other Dream Quests, published by W. Paul Ganley’s “Weirdbook Press,” 1990. (US)

Aunt Hester. The Satyr’s Head, edited by David Sutton, published by “Corgi Books,” 1975. (UK)

Bad Habit. A “lost” story of about two thousand words. (The author says, “It was just an exercise, really … I can’t remember the theme and I certainly don’t miss it.”)

Back Row. Terror Australis, Vol. 1, No. 1, Autumn 1988. (Australia)

Beneath the Moors. Arkham House, 1974. (US)

Big “C”. In the anthology Lovecraft’s Legacy, edited by Robert E. Weinberg and Martin H. Greenberg, published by “TOR Books.”

Billy’s Oak. In The Arkham Collector, No. 6, Winter 1970, edited and published by August Derleth, for Arkham House.

Bloodwars. Extract in Fantasycon XIX, 1994 Convention Book. (A Necroscope® novel.)

Born of the Winds. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Vol. 49, No. 6 (WN 295), December 1975. Published by Mercury Press.

Breasts. Destroyed. (The author says, “It was bloody and a mess! I tried it as an experiment and found that I couldn’t ‘hack’ it!”).

Brothers Cova, The. A “lost” Mythos story of nine or ten thousand words. (According to the author: “Francesco Cova, an Italian friend and once-publisher of Kadath – an excellent fanzine – lost his copy during his return to Genoa after a British convention. He was going to press with a new issue of Kadath and requested a second copy. Like a clown I sent him my only copy! I can only think it never reached him, and various attempts to contact him have failed.”)

Burrowers Beneath, The. HPL, Frierson, Meade III and Penny editors. Birmingham, Al., The Editors, 1972, 1975. Chapter One - without "The Nethermost Caverns". (UK)

Caller of The Black, The. In the collection of the same name, published by Arkham House, 1971. (US)

Cement Surroundings. Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, edited by August Derleth, Arkham House, 1969. (US)

Challenge, The. Dancing with the Dark: True Encounters with the Paranormal by Masters of the Macabre, edited by Stephen Jones. Published by Vista, an imprint of the Cassell Group, 1997. (UK)

Changeling, The. 2012. First published in Fearie Tales Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome, Edited by Stephen Jones, published by Jo Fletcher Books, London, 2013.

Clean Slate. The Fifth Book of After Midnight Stories, edited by Amy Myers. Published by Robert Hale, Ltd., 1991. (UK)

Cleaner Women, The. The Horror at Oakdeene and Others, published by Arkham House, 1977. (US)

Concerning Titus Crow. The Compleat Crow, published by Weirdbook Press, 1987. (US)

Cryptically Yours. Escape!, Number One, Fall 1977. (US)

Crystal Thing, The. A “lost” short story. (Submitted before 1980 to an editor in the USA but never published. The author has no copy.)

Cthatt Aquadingen. (According to the author, “This purports to be an excerpt from this so-called ‘black book’.”) In the “Pulp Thriller & Theological Journal” known as The Crypt of Cthulhu, 3, No. 7, (WN 23), St. John’s Eve 1994.

Curse of the Golden Guardians. The Compleat Khash: Never a Backward Glance Volume 1. Published by W. Paul Ganley’s Weirdbook Press, 1991. (US)

Cyprus Shell, The. In The Arkham Collector, No. 3, Summer 1968, edited and published by August Derleth for Arkham House. (US)

Dagon’s Bell. Weirdbook, 23/24, 1988, and published by W. Paul Ganley. (US)

Darghud’s Doll. The Horror at Oakdeene and Others, published by Arkham House, 1977. (US)

Dark Wisdom, The. A “lost” short story. (According to the author it was scheduled to appear in the 1970s in a “thing called IS.” It never appeared, and the author lost his personal copy.)

David’s Worm. Pulp, 1971, no other information available. (US)

De Marigny’s Clock. The Caller of the Black, published by Arkham House, 1971. (US)

Dead on Time. The Fourth Book of After Midnight Stories, edited by Amy Myers and published by William Kimber & Co., Ltd., 1988. (UK)

Deadspawn. Extract from in Fear Magazine, #32 August 1991. (US) (A Necroscope® novel.)

Deadspeak. Extract from in Fear Magazine, #22 October 1990. (US) (A Necroscope® novel.)

Deep-Sea Conch, The. Dark Things, edited by August Derleth, Arkham House, 1971. (US)

Dead Eddy. Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes, Tor Books, U.S., 2003. (US)

Decreation. 50 words or less. Ghoul Warning and Other Omens…and Other Omens, W. P. Ganley, Publisher and Necronomicon Press, 1999. (US)

Deja Viewer. Maelstrom, Volume 1, edited by Paul Calvin Wilson, published by Calvin House, Div. of Lighthouse Media One. (UK)

Dinosaur Dreams. Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes, Tor Books, 2003. (US)

Disapproval of Jeremy Cleave, The. Weird Tales, No. 295, Winter 1989/90. Published by the Terminus Publishing Co. (US)

Do-It-Yourself Carpenter, The. 50 words or less. Ghoul Warning and Other Omens…and Other Omens, W. P. Ganley, Publisher and Necronomicon Press, 1999. (US)

Dracula Vs. the Burrowers. Presumably a “lost” story. (An original story featuring Titus Crow and Henri-Laurent de Marigny, written for the Marvel comic Dracula Lives! Submitted in 1975, the author was paid – “quite well paid” – but kept no copy. It would appear that Marvel decided not to use it.)

Dylath-Leen. The Caller of the Black, Arkham House, 1971. (US)

Enemy, The. Etchings & Odysseys, published by The Strange Co. in 1985/86. (US)

Facts in the Hammond Case, The. A “lost” Mythos story. (The author says, “Derleth saw a copy at Arkham House. It needed some revision. Since then … who can say?”)

Fairground Horror, The. The Disciples of Cthulhu, edited by E. P. Berglund. Published by DAW Books, 1976. (US)

Familiar, The. An unfinished, “lost” story. (The author says, “I don’t remember what happened to it, but no big deal.”)

Feasibility Study. Screaming Science Fiction, Subterranean Press, 2006. (US)

For the Dead Travel Slowly. Necroscope®: Harry and the Pirates, Solaris, UK, 2009. (UK)

Fruiting Bodies. Weird Tales, No. 291, Summer 1988. Published by the Terminus Publishing Co. (US)

Gaddy’s Gloves. British Fantasy XVI Convention Book, 1991. (UK)

Gathering, The. Earth, Wind, Fire and Water, Fedogan & Bremer, US, 2017.

Genseric’s Fifth-Born Son. Fantasy Crossroads, No. 15, edited by Jonathan Bacon and published by the Stygian Isle Press, January 1979. (US)

Girl With Toilet-Roll Eyes, The. Destroyed. (The author says, “I don’t know what it was about, only that it was experimental and very poor.”)

Grotesques Before Nine. Skeleton Crew, Vol. 2, No. 3, edited by Dave Reeder and dated September 1990. (UK)

Haggopian. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 44, o. 6 (WN 265), June 1973. (US)

Harry and the Pirates. Necroscope®: Harry and the Pirates, Solaris, 2009. (UK)

Hell is a Personal Place. Fantasy Tales, Vol. 9, No. 17, edited and published by Steve Jones and David Sutton, Summer 1987. (UK)

Horror at Oakdeene, The. Published by Arkham House, 1977. (US)

House of Cthulhu, The. Whispers, Vol. 1, No. 1, July 1973. Published by Stuart David Schiff’s Whispers Press. (US) House of the Temple, The. Kadath, Vol. 1, No. 3, November 1980. Edited and published by Francesco Cova. (Italy.)

How Kank-Thad Returned to Bhur-Esh. Fantastic, Vol. 26, No. 2, published by the Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., 1977. (US)

Hymn, The. H. P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror, Issue Number 3, Fall 2006. Wildside Press. (US)

Iced on Aran. Weird Tales, No. 295, Winter 1989. Published by the Terminus Publishing Co. (US)

In Dublin's Fair City. (Molly Malone). Dark Discoveries Magazine, January 2017 issue #37. Inception. The Compleat Crow. Published by W. Paul Ganley’s Weirdbook Press, 1987. (US)

In the Glow-Zone. Cold Fear: New Tales of Terror, edited by Hugh Lamb. Published by W. H. Allen, 1977. (US)

In the Temple of Terror. Weirdbook, No. 22, Summer 1997, and published by W. Paul Ganley’s Weirdbook Press. (US)

In the Vaults Beneath. The Caller of the Black, Arkham House, 1971. (US)

Irving's Story. Dark Fuse, 2017, Internet story and #1 in the Erikotis April 2017. Isles of the Suhm-Yi. The House of Cthulhu. Published by W. Paul Ganley’s Weirdbook Press, 1984. (US)

Kiss of Bugg-Shash, The. Cthulhu 3: Three Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. Published by Jon M. Harvey’s Spectre Press, 1978. (UK)

Kiss of the Lamia. Weirdbook, No. 20, Spring 1985. (US)

Last Rite, The. Witchcraft & Sorcery, No. 10, published by the Fantasy Publishing Co., Ltd. in 1974. (US)

Late Shopping. Weirdbook, No. 18, 1983. (US)

Lecture, The. Eeriecon Chapbook, #3, Produced by the Buffalo Fantasy League in collaboration with W. Paul Ganley, Buffalo, New York, 2004. Little Man Lost. Etchings & Odysseys, No. 7, 1985. Published by The Strange Company. (US)

Long, Last Night, The. Weird Tales Magazine #360, Fall 2012. (US)

Lord of the Worms. Weirdbook, No. 17, 1983. (US)

Lords of the Morass. The House of Cthulhu. Published by W. Paul Ganley’s Weirdbook Press, 1984. (US)

Luststone, The. Weird Tales, Fall 1991. Published by the Terminus Publishing Co. (US) Mandraki. The 22nd World Fantasy Convention Souvenir Book, Chicago 1996. (US)

Man in the Dream, The. (Titled by August Derleth “The Thing in the Moonlight II,” as by Lovecraft and Lumley.) Published in The Arkham Collector, Arkham House, Winter 1969. (US)

Man Who Felt Pain, The. Fantasy Tales, Vol. 10, No. 2, Spring 1989, edited by Stephen Jones and David Sutton. (UK)

Man Who Killed Kew Gardens, The. Dark Homage Series Volume 1, Delirium Press, 2003. (US)

Man Who Got Slotted, The. Kadath, Vol. 1, No. 3, November 1980. (Italy.)

Man Who Photographed Beardsley, The. The Star Book of Horror, No. 2, edited by Hugh Lamb. Published by Wyndham Publications, 1976. (UK)

Man Who Saw No Spiders, The. Weirdbook, No. 13, 1979. (US)

Mandelt’s Meteorite. A “lost” story. (The author says, “August Derleth saw it at Arkham House. It was about three thousand words long, a ‘visitor from out there’ story; lost, but no great loss.”) Memory. HPL Magazine of Horror, Volume 1, Number 1, Summer 2004, Wildside Press. (US) Mirror of Nitocris, The. The Caller of the Black, published by Arkham House, 1971. (US)

Mother Love. Witchcraft & Sorcery, Vol. 1, No. 6, May 1971. Publisher: Fantasy Publishing Co. (US)

My Thing Friday. Dark Delicacies: Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre by the World’s Greatest Writers, edited by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb, published by Carroll & Graff, NY 2005. Mylakhrion the Immortal. Fantasy Tales, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1977. Editors Steve Jones and Dave Sutton. (UK) Name and Number. Kadath, Vol. 2, No. 1, July 1982. (Italy.)

Necros. The Second Book of After Midnight Stories, edited by Amy Myers. Published by William Kimber & Co., Ltd., 1986. (UK)

Necroscope® Excerpt, Seductive Spectres, edited by Amarantha Knight, Masquerade Books, NY, 1996. Night Sea-Maid Went Down, The. The Caller of the Black, published by Arkham House, 1971. (US)

Nitre. A “lost” story. (The author reports, “This was a good little story – I think. Derleth saw it, and then it went missing. In my Army days I didn’t always keep copies.”) No Sharks in the Med. Weird Tales, No. 295, Winter 1989/90. Published by the Terminus Publishing Co. (US)

No Way Home. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 49, No. 3, September 1975. Published by Mercury Press. (US)

Nonesuch, The. The Nonesuch, Subterranean Press, USA, 2009. Not A Creature Was Stirring. December 2012. Lost track of first pub, I believe it was in a magazine. However, it was in the Short Tall Tales, collection. Old Man With A Blade. Necroscope®: Harry and the Pirates, Solaris, 2009. (UK)

On Receiving a Small RPG Piece. In a role-playing-game fanzine called Dagon, No. 13, June-September 1986, edited and published by Carl Ford’s Dagon Press. (UK)

Othuum! Witchcraft & Sorcery, Number 10, 1974, (formerly Coven 3), Fantasy Publishing Company. (US)

Pearl, The. The Caller of the Black, Arkham House, 1971. (US)

Picnickers, The. Final Shadows, edited by Charles L. Grant and published by Doubleday, 1991. (US)

Pit-Yakker, The. Weird Tales, No. 294, Fall 1989. Published by the Terminus Publishing Co. (US) Problem Child. Vampires, Werewolves and Other Monsters, edited by Roger Elwood and published by Curtis Books, 1974. (US)

Recognition. Weirdbook, No. 15, 1981. (US)

Resurrection. Necroscope®: Harry Keogh and Other Weird Heroes, Tor Books, 2003. (US)

Return of the Deep Ones. Fantasy Book, Vol. 3, No. 1 (WN 11), March 1984. (Part One): Chapter 1, The Conch; Chapter 2, The Place On The Beach; Chapter 3, Tide of Terror; Fantasy Book, Vol. 3, No. 2 (WN 12), June 1984. (Part Two: Sea Change): Chapter 4, The Tank, Chapter 5, The Second Prisoner; Chapter 6, Haggopian; Fantasy Book, Vol. 3, No. 3 (WN 13), September 1984. (Part Three: The Deeps Await): Chapter 7, Escape!, Chapter 8, Changeling, Chapter 9, The Unending Nightmare. (US)

Return to Arkham. The script for a Cthulhu Mythos comic strip, (art by Martin McKenna) in Carl Ford’s Dagon, No. 15, November-December 1986. Published by Dagon Press. (UK)

Rising With Surtsey. Dark Things, edited by August Derleth, Arkham House, 1971. (US)

Running Man, The. (Nothing to do with “Big Arnie!”) In the RPG Cthulhu source-pack titled Green and Pleasant Land, compiled by Pete Tamlyn, published by Games Workshop, 1987. (UK)

Second Wish, The. New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, edited by Ramsey Campbell, Arkham House, 1980. (US)

See the Creature. Extract from E-Branch Survivors in The World Horror Convention VIII, April 1998. (US)

Sister City, The. Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, edited by August Derleth, Arkham House, 1969. (US)

Snarker’s Son. New Tales of Terror, edited by Hugh Lamb and published by Magnum Books, Methuen Ltd., in 1980. (UK)

Somebody Calling. Brian Lumley’s Freaks, Subterranean Press, 2004. (US)

Sorcerer’s Book, The. The House of Cthulhu and Other Tales of the Primal Land, Weirdbook Press, 1984. (US)

Sorcerer’s Dream, The. Whispers, Vol. 4, No. 1-2 (WN 13/14). Whispers Press, October 1979. (US)

Source, The. Extract from in Fear Magazine ‘8, August 1989. (US) Spaghetti. Weirdbook, No. 21, Aug. 1985. (US)

Spider in the Bath. Etchings & Odysseys, No. 5, Oct. 1984. Published by The Strange Company. (US)

Stilts. World Fantasy Convention Souvenir Book, 2003. (US)

Statement of Henry Worthy, The. The Horror at Oakdeene, Arkham House, 1977. (US)

Statement of One John Gibson, The. The Crypt of Cthulhu, No. 19, Candlemas 1984, The Brian Lumley Issue. Edited by Robert M. Price. (US)

Stealer of Dreams. Weirdbook, No. 27, Spring 1992. (US)

Strange Years, The. Fantasy Tales, Vol. 5, No. 9, Spring 1982. (US)

Sun, the Sea and the Silent Scream, The. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1988. (US)

Swamped. Etchings & Odysseys, No. 9, 1986. Published by The Strange Company. (US)

Swordsmith and Sorcerer. (See “Genseric’s Fifth-Born Son.”) Fantasy Crossroads, #15, January 1979 (Round Robin). (US)

Synchronicity, or Something. A Cthulhu Mythos-based story, written on commission for Carl Ford’s Dagon Press, and published in 1989 in the same format as Ford’s RPG fanzine Dagon. (UK)

Taint, The. Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth, edited by Stephen Jones, Fedogan & Bremer, 2005. (US)

Tale’s Tail. Iced on Aran and Other Dream Quests, published by W. Paul Ganley’s Weirdbook Press, 1990. (US)

Tharquest and the Lamia Orbiquita. Fantastic Sword and Sorcery and Fantasy Stories, Vol. 25, No. 5, November 1976. Published by the Ultimate Publishing Co. (US)

Thief Immortal, The. Weirdbook, No. 25, Autumn 1990. (US)

Thin People, The. Whispers, Vol. 6, No. 23-24, October 1987. Published by Whispers Press. (US)

Thing From the Blasted Heath, The. The Caller of the Black, Arkham House, 1971. (US)

Thing in the Moonlight II, The. The Arkham Collector, No. 4, Winter 1969, Vol. 1, 1971. (US)

To Kill A Wizard. The House of Cthulhu, 1984. Published by W. Paul Ganley’s Weirdbook Press. (US)

Told in the Desert. Kadath, Vol. 2, No. 2/3, Fall 1984. (Italy.)

Too Much Monkey Business. Kadath, Vol. 1, No. 3, November 1980. (Italy.)

Treasure of the Scarlet Scorpion. Weirdbook, No. 16, 1982. (US)

Two Stone Tom’s T.O.E. Subterranean Press Magazine Fall 2012 online magazine. (US)

Ugly Act, The. 2 AM Magazine, No. 9, Fall 1988. 2AM Publications. (US)

Ugly Act, The. Revised in 2007/2008.

Unbeliever, The. Fantasy Book, Vol. 2, No. 3, (WN 9), August 1983. Published by Fantasy Book Enterprises. (US)

Uzzi. Fear, No. 2, September/October 1988. Edited by John Gilbert and published by Newsfield, Leisure Monthly. (UK)

Vanessa’s Voice. Whispers 3, No. 3/4 (WN 11/12), October 1978, published by Whispers Press. (US)

Vehicle, The. Amulet, No. 1 and No. 2, 1987, Amulet Publications. (US)

Viaduct, The. Superhorror, edited by Ramsey Campbell, published by W. H. Allen, 1976. (UK)

Viking’s Stone, The. The Horror at Oakdeene, Arkham House, 1977. (US)

War of the Worlds II: Earthlings V Pondlings. 50 words or less. Ghoul Warning and Other Omens…and Other Omens, W. P. Ganley, Publisher and Necronomicon Press, 1999. (US)

Weird Wines of Naxas Niss, The. Weirdbook, No. 26, Autumn 1991. (US)

What Dark God? Nameless Places, edited by G. W. Page, Arkham House, 1975. (US)

Whisperer, The. Frights, edited by Kirby McCauley and published by St. Martin’s Press, 1976. (US)

Wine of the Wizard, The. The House of Cthulhu and Other Tales of the Primal Land, Weirdbook Press, 1984. (US)

Wratha’s Story. Necon XX 2000, edited by Bob Booth, published by Necon Committee, July 2000. (US)

Writer in the Garret, The. The Caller of the Black, Arkham House, 1971. (US)

Zack Phalanx Is Vlad the Impaler! Weirdbook, No. 11, 1977. (US)

 

THE POETRY

The English Publications – Arranged Alphabetically – First Publication. Updated March 2024.

NOTE: Brian’s memory with regard to his “poems” (he does not regard himself by any means a poet) is vague to non-existent. And he has no notes worth mentioning. But his poems have appeared in many publications over the years, and it is entirely possible that other or previous “first” publications do exist. Leigh Blackmore’s 1984 “New Bibliography” was very helpful to my research into these last bits of Brian’s output.

 

A Cry At Night. Midnight Fantasies, No. (?) Pre-1977. (It was written in 1968).

A Dreamer. Fantasy & Terror #5, edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson, published by Richard H. Fawcett, US, 1985.

Amber Man. Ghoul Warning, Spectre Press, 1982.

Author! Author! Astral Dimensions, No. 6, 1979.

Black Prayer. Eerie Country, No. 5, 1981.

City Out of Time. Fantasy Tales, Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 1977.

Da Vinci's Ghost. Royal Military Police Journal, the 3rd Quarter, 1975.

Destiny. Weirdbook, No. 11, 1977.

Dream. Ghoul Warning and Other Omens…and Other Omens, W. P. Ganley, Publisher and Necronomicon Press, 1999.

Dreamer Wakes, The. Ghoul Warning, 1982.

Dylath-Leen. In the fanzine Kadath, Vol. 2, No. 1, July 1982

Fantasy Crossroads. Fantasy Crossroads, Nos. 10/11, March 1977.

Fantasy Tales. Fantasy Tales, Vol. 2, No. 3, Summer 1978.

Foundling. Ghoul Warning and Other Omens…and Other Omens, W. P. Ganley, Publisher and Necronomicon Press, 1999.

Ghoul Warning. Ghoul Warning, 1982.

Good God! – Goodrod. Ghoul Warning, 1982.

I Am the Bat. Ghoul Warning, 1982.

Immortal Sword, The. Ghoul Warning, 1982.

In Pressure-Pounded Chasms. The Arkham Collector, No. 9, Spring 1971. Published by Arkham House.

Inmate. Ghoul Warning, 1982.

Kadath. In the Brian Lumley Special Edition Kadath, Vol. 1, No. 3, November 1980.

Kraken. Ghoul Warning, 1982.

Last of the Lizards. Ghoul Warning, 1982.

Loup Garou. Ghoul Warning, 1982.

Mad Dreamer. Apazine 1976.

Maggot. Nyctalops, Vol. 3, No. 1, #15, January 1980.

Mammoth Rider. Crypt of Cthulhu, Vol. 3, No. 3 (whole number 19), Candlemas 1984.

Mirrors at Midnight. Ghoul Warning, 1982.

Nyctalops. Nyctalops, Vol. 2, No. 6 (whole number 13), May 1977.

Old Houses Know Too Much. Ghoul Warning, 1982.

Pesh-Tlen. Nyctalops, Vol. 2, No. 1 (whole number 8), April 1973. (Written in 1968.)

Sea, The. Ghoul Warning, 1982.

Sea Fret. Crypt of Cthulhu, No. 19, 1984.

Shadow Man, The. The HPL Supplement, July 1973.

Skull of H. P. L., The. Weirdbook, No. 12, 1977.

Survivors. Ghoul Warning, 1982.

Swamp Call. Fantasy Tales, Vol. 4, No. 8, Summer 1981.

Sword. Ghoul Warning, 1982.

Tindalos. Nyctalops, Vol. 2, No. 7, March 1978.

Unbearable, The. Ghoul Warning, 1982.

Visions From Aeons … Dead? Omniumgathum, 1976.

Warhorse. Ghoul Warning, 1982.

Warlord, The. Ghoul Warning, 1982.

Weirdbook. Weirdbook, No. 13, 1977.

Whistler. Eerie Country, No. 1, 1976.

Wind-Walker, The. Fantasy Tales, Vol. 3, No. 6, Summer 1980.

Witch. Ghoul Warning, 1982.

Witching Hour. Ghoul Warning, 1982.

Y’ha-nthlei. Ghoul Warning, 1982.