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The House of the Temple By Brian Lumley Cover art by Alan M. Clark, Interior art by Allen K Release Date: NOW AVAILABLE! Limited Edition (300 copies) $45.00   Traycased Lettered Edition (52 copies) $150.00

Editions:

Limited Edition of only 300 copies; numbered and signed by the author and artist.

Traycased Lettered Edition of only 52 copies, signed by the author and artists,
and including an audio CD of But Where is Harry Keogh? by Brian Lumley,
excerpted from Necroscope: The Lost Years read by the author.

Wrap Around Cover Art:

Description:

Not seen in the United States since 1981 (an appearance in Weird Tales), and out of print worldwide for years, The House of the Temple will be released in Limited Edition hardcover by Endeavor Press in the summer of 2003. Accompanying the title story will be Brian Lumley's short story Swamped, not seen in print in the USA since 1986.

After the mysterious death of his uncle, author John McGilchrist returns to his
ancestral home in Scotland: the ancient estate known as "Temple House". His
uncle's strange will leaves everything to John—but only upon fulfillment of a
most unusual condition...

Lettered Edition Traycase:

The prototype traycase for the Lettered Edition of The House of the Temple is finished!! Production of the traycases will begin immediately. Each case will be hand-crafted and bound in rich, genuine leather, each with a unique, three dimensional face molded into the lid. The eyes are taxidermy-quality glass eyes, and several different colors will be used (if you preordered this book and have a preference for eye color, let us know immediately. If you place a new order for this book and have a preference for eye color, tell us with your order. Eye color preferences will be honored only as available, but if you act immediately - before the cases are made - we will try our best to honor your request). Inside the lid of each case, a built-in pocket will contain the audio CD of Brian Lumley reading But Where is Harry Keogh?, a chapter excerpted from Necroscope: The Lost Years.

The traycases are hand-crafted by artist Melissa Smith, owner of Grichels, LTD.

Author Bio:

“With the E-Branch Trilogy's final volume, Avengers, Brian has recently completed his epic Necroscope saga in an amazing thirteen volumes…” At least, that’s how things stood – and how a thumbnail bio-bibliography of the author read – until recently. But please read on…

Brian’s list of titles now runs to 48 and counting. A prolific if not compulsive writer, the bulk of his work has seen print in the last twenty-one years, this following a full span of twenty-two years of military service.

Although he retired from the Army in December 1980, Lumley’s first work – short stories, and eventually three collections – had been published many years earlier by the then dean of macabre publishers, August Derleth, at Arkham House in Wisconsin, USA. Thus, though he’d long been an acknowledged master of the “Cthulhu Mythos” sub-genre inspired by H. P. Lovecraft’s fiction, it wasn’t until 1986, with his military career behind him, that the UK first saw publication of Brian’s dead-waking, ground-breaking horror novel Necroscope, featuring Harry Keogh, the man who talks to dead people.

The instant success of Necroscope resulted in four more books in the original series: Wamphyri!, The Source, Deadspeak and Deadspawn. Complemented by George Underwood’s jacket paintings in the UK, and by Bob Eggleton’s in America, these books have all seen multiple reprints.

This success spawned Lumley’s massive Vampire World Trilogy: Blood Brothers, The Last Aerie, and Bloodwars, and almost seven years after first publication of Necroscope in paperback, such was its continuing impact that TOR re-issued the novel in hardcovers – a very rare event! Since then, three more of the first five have appeared in hardcover, with Deadspawn still to come.

Thirteen countries (and counting) have now published or are in the process of publishing these books, which in the US alone have sold over 2,000,000 copies. In addition Necroscope comic books, graphic novels, a role-playing game, and quality figurines have been created from themes and characters in the books, and Brian has gone on to add his “real” voice to Dangerous Ground, a Downliners Sect rock-&-roll album released in the UK. Moreover, a quality CD-ROM is in production from UK-based “Möbius Entertainment.”

Other books to Brian’s credit are: The House of Doors, (a sequel has recently been published in UK and USA), Demogorgon, six novels in the Titus Crow series, four in the Dreams series, the Psychomech Trilogy, several other one-off novels, and over 100 short stories – one of which Fruiting Bodies, won a British Fantasy Award in 1989 and became the title of a TOR Books hardcover Lumley collection. A year later in 1990, “Fear Magazine” readers voted Brian the best established genre author for The Source, and he received the award accordingly.

Another short story, Necros (nothing to do with Necroscope) was adapted for Ridley Scott’s “The Hunger” series on the Showtime Television Network, and other tales from Brian’s short fiction list have often been selected for various “Year’s Best Horror” anthologies. Also, at the World Horror Convention in Phoenix, Arizona, 1998, Lumley received the genre’s much coveted Grand Master Award in recognition of his work…
A widely travelled man, Brian has visited or lived in the USA, France, Italy, Cyprus, Germany, Malta, not to mention at least a dozen or more Greek islands. His hobbies have included hang-gliding in Scotland and spear-fishing and octopus-hunting in the Greek islands. He still makes regular visits to the Mediterranean, indulging his passion for moussaka, retsina, just a little ouzo … and Metaxa, of course! In addition – as icing on the baklava – Necroscope and its sequels are now appearing in Greek translation!

And finally: Brian Lumley “thought that the E-Branch Trilogy, Invaders, Defilers and Avengers, would be the last” (of the incredibly popular Necroscope novels) “… but maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to end the series on a count of 13 after all.” And thus he recently handed in (to editor Melissa Singer, at TOR Books) the 14th volume in the series, entitled Harry Keogh: Necroscope, & Other Weird Heroes.

As for the future: “well, the future is always uncertain.” But with several books from Brian’s extensive backlist awaiting reissue, it certainly isn’t over yet…

When not travelling, Brian and his American wife Barbara Ann (“Silky”) keep house in Devon, England.

Learn more about his work at www.brianlumley.com