Titus Crow, Volume 3: In The Moons of Borea, Elysia (Paperback)

by Brian Lumley (Author) "They skirted the forest on foot, the Titan bears shambling along behind on all fours, their packs piled high so that there was no room..." (more)
Key Phrases: Titus Crow, The Searcher, Elder Gods (more...)

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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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description
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.

Volume Three contains two full novels, In the Moons of Borea and Elysia.


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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Tor Books; 1st edition (October 20, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312868669
• ISBN-13: 978-0312868666
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #509,099 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Daniel V. Reilly (Upstate New York, United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

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.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Jack L. Whitley "retro-tv afficianado" (ODESSA, TX USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.