Titus Crow: In the Moons of Borea. Elysia : The Coming of Cthulhu [Hardcover]

Brian Lumley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1997

With Volume Three, containing In the Moons of Borea and Elysia, the bestselling series concludes as Titus Crow, de Marigny, and heroes from other Lumley series join forces to face the greatest of all evils, Cthulhu himself, risen from his ancient slumber and ready for war!.

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From Kirkus Reviews

Third double-volume, after The Clock of Dreams and Spawn of the Winds (p. 668), ending the Titus Crow sextette, the first hardcover reprint of a series based on Lumley's borrowings from H.P. Lovecraft. Best known for his gigantic and still-growing Harry Keogh Necroscope vampire cycle, Lumley's youthful occult detective Titus Crow series is more Edgar Rice Burroughsstyled heroic fantasy than Lovecraftian horror. Deep under the magma of our planet are imprisoned the immensely huge and hideous plasmal telepaths known as Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth, Shub-Niggurath, and Nyarlathotep, who want to destroy mankind. Far back in the abysses of time, Cthulhu and the Great Gods rose up against the Elder Gods of Elysia and eventually destroyed Elysia, an event that gets repeated in cyclical time. The Elder Gods, however, drove Cthulhu's horde under Earth's mantle. As Cthulhu visited various disasters upon mankind, the Elder Gods empowered Titus Crow and his chronicler Henri- Laurent de Marigny with a grandfather clocklike time machine that can pierce the extradimensional lairs of Cthulhu. Spawn of the Winds (in volume two) left off with brawny, telepathic Texan Hank Silberhutte battling Ithaqua, the abominable Force of Evil known as ``Wind Walker in the Arctic.'' Here, In the Moons of Borea returns us to Borea (the Arctic), Silberhutte, and Wind Walker, with Titus and Henri joining the battle. Elysia, a variation on Lovecraft's The Dream Quest of the Unknown Kadath, is more sword-and-sorcery than occult tale. Lumley's lively but adolescent gouache is complete, but, unlike Lovecraft's miasmic oils, it lacks a style you'd revisit for the glow alone. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About the Author

Brian Lumley is the author of the bestselling Necroscope series of vampire novels. The first Necroscope, Harry Keogh, also appears in a collection of Lumley's short fiction, Harry Keogh and Other Weird Heroes, along Titus Crow and Henri Laurent de Marigny, from Titus Crow, Volumes One, Two, and Three, and David Hero and Eldin the Wanderer, from the Dreamlands series.

An acknowledged master of Lovecraft-style horror, Brian Lumley has won the British Fantasy Award and been named a Grand Master of Horror. His works have been published in more than a dozen countries and have inspired comic books, role-playing games, and sculpture, and been adapted for television.

When not writing, Lumley can often be found spear-fishing in the Greek islands, gambling in Las Vegas, or attending a convention somewhere in the US. Lumley and his wife live in England.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 380 pages
• Publisher: Tor Books (October 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312863659
• ISBN-13: 978-0312863654
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,567,233 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Brian Lumley is the author of the bestselling Necroscope series of vampire novels. An acknowledged master of Lovecraft-style horror, Brian Lumley has won the British Fantasy Award and been named a Grand Master of Horror. His works have been published in more than a dozen countries and have inspired comic books, role-playing games, and sculpture, and been adapted for television. When not writing, Lumley can often be found spear-fishing in the Greek islands, gambling in Las Vegas, or attending a convention somewhere in the US. Lumley and his wife live in England.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Strange, But Has Some Great Moments., July 19, 2002

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Daniel V. Reilly (Upstate New York, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Titus Crow: In the Moons of Borea. Elysia : The Coming of Cthulhu (Hardcover)

With flying, time-jumping, interstellar Grandfather clocks, immortal Outer-Space monsters, drop-dead gorgeous alien women, and an (unintentional, I assume...) oddly homoerotic "friendship", Volume Three of Brian Lumley's Titus Crow series wraps up the set in a mostly satisfying manner.

The first half, In The Moons of Borea, unites Hank Silberhutte, former Texan turned Warlord of the Ice-Planet Borea, with Henri-Laurent de Marigny, the former crony of Titus Crow. Together they ride a HURRICANE through Space (!) to try to retrieve the Time-Clock from the clutches of Ithaqua. With Outer-Space Vikings, frozen evil priests, and space-travel-via-weather-anomaly, this is perhaps the weirdest story I have ever read. Lumley manages to save the story by introducing some truly unique bad guys at the end, the aforementioned Ice-Priests of Ithaqua, but his penchant for describing the Eyes of Ithaqua as "Burning Carmine Orbs...." almost made me throw the book in the trash. He must use that line, or some "Carmine_ _ _" variation line, at least once a page in the "Moons" half of the book.

In the second half, "Elysia, The Coming of Cthulhu" we should be getting an epic battle between the forces of good and evil, but we get almost 200 pages of Henri pining over his friend Crow, while scouring the Universe for characters from other Lumley books. (Considering the fact that Henri and Crow are both involved with women who are portrayed as stunningly beautiful, they seem to spend a lot of time thinking about how much they miss each other. Strange...)The characters of Hero and Eldin (and the villainess Zura) are very interesting, though, and the brief final battle against The Elder Gods is compelling, with an ending worthy of a summer popcorn movie. All in all, not a great book, but some truly original moments make it worth a look.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brian Scores Again, August 13, 2000

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Jack L. Whitley "retro-tv afficianado" (ODESSA, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Titus Crow: In the Moons of Borea. Elysia : The Coming of Cthulhu (Hardcover)

This the final installment of Titus & Henri's adventures against the Elder gods is another masterpiece from the mind of Brian Lumley. Continuing the saga of Silbuerhutte and his allies/friends in IN THE MOONS OF BOREA by conecting De Marigny with the Borean saga and then sliding in to the final battle with Cthulhu and his allies is a spellbinding tale woven as only Lumley can. A great, great example of his work.

0 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Brian Lumley Is Indescribably Bad., April 26, 2010

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Merlin Falcon-Gates - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Titus Crow, Volume 3: In The Moons of Borea, Elysia (Paperback)

I always check the book section when we go grocery shopping. Whenever there's a Brian Lumley book on the shelves, I grab it and read a random paragraph at Gwyneth because it makes her wince amusingly. Yes, I'm a bad parent.

In that vein, here are two random paragraphs from "In The Moons of Borea."

"Slowing the speed of the cloak as they approached the settlement, de Marigny asked the Warlord: 'What now, Hank? Do we simply fly in and see what develops?'"

"And approaching, seeing his friend standing there alone atop the peak, finally de Marigny understood. He had not wondered how Armandra might go about sending them a tornado, for he knew well enough that she was capable of that. What had puzzled and worried him was how such a whirlwind could possibly pick them up and then power them on their way to Dromos; and, with fighting still in progress and increasing in ferocity along the ridges, how such a rescue could be achieved in time. Now he saw that no such intervention from Borea was planned, that their passage to Dromos would have its origin right here on Numinos!"

Read out loud to friends for best effect.