Brian Lumley Reading Order

56 books (1969–2018)

Brian Lumley's Anthologies series comprises 55 books published between 1969 and 2018, presenting a comprehensive collection of horror and dark fiction spanning nearly five decades. The series is complete and should be read in publication order, beginning with Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Vol. 1. These anthologies feature various horror subgenres including Lovecraftian cosmic horror, supernatural tales, and action-oriented dark fiction, making it an extensive resource for readers interested in horror anthology collections.

Start with Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Vol. 1, the first of 55 books in the Anthologies series.

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1	Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Vol. 1 1969Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series II 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Year's Best Horror Stories No. 3 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Nameless Places 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Satyr's Head: Tales of Terror 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Disciples of Cthulhu 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IV 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Cold Fear 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Weirdbook 12 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Spine-Chillers 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Gaslight & Ghosts 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Weird Tales 295 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Best New Horror 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Dark Voices 2 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Dante's Disciples 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Dark Voices 3 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Mammoth Book of Vampires 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Giant Book of Best New Horror 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	The Giant Book of Zombies 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	The Mammoth Book of Zombies 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Sea-Cursed 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H.P. Lovecraft 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Dark Terrors 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Dark Terrors 2 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Giant Book of Fantasy Tales 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Seductive Spectres 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Crimes of Passion 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	The Mammoth Book of Dracula 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	In the Shadow of the Gargoyle 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Dark Detectives 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Unnatural Selection of Darwinian Nightmares 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Dark Homage, Volume 1 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Keep Out The Night 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	Great Ghost Stories 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	The Mammoth Book of New Terror 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Dark Delicacies 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	Best New Horror 17 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Summer Chills 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	The Mammoth Book of Monsters 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	The Ghost Quartet 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	Best New Horror 20 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	Best New Horror 21 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	Lore: A Quaint and Curious Volume of Selected Stories 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	Stranger by Night 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	The Book of Cthulhu 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	Danse Macabre 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	Mammoth Books presents More Than Human 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	The Mammoth Book of Body Horror 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	Weird Tales #360 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	Blood Rites 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	Darker Terrors 7 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53	Dark Places, Evil Faces 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54	In the Footsteps of Dracula 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
55	Masters of Horror 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
56	Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (1986–2026)

Brian Lumley's Dreamlands trilogy, a complete horror and action-adventure series, follows a cohesive narrative across three books published between 1986 and 1987. The three interconnected novels—Hero of Dreams, Ship of Dreams, and Mad Moon of Dreams—should be read in publication order to experience the story as intended. This self-contained series offers a full storyline that concludes without requiring additional volumes.

Start with Hero of Dreams and read in order.

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1	Hero of Dreams 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Ship of Dreams 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Mad Moon of Dreams / Second Visit 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Questers for Kuranes 2026

1 book (1990–1990)

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1	Iced on Aran and Other Dream Quests 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1991–1998)

Brian Lumley's House of Doors series consists of two complete horror and action-adventure novels published in 1991 and 1998. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with The House of Doors followed by Maze of Worlds. This finished series offers readers a pair of interconnected stories that build upon each other chronologically.

Start with The House of Doors and read in order.

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1	The House of Doors 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Maze of Worlds 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

17 books (1986–2020)

The Necroscope series is a 17-book horror and action franchise by Brian Lumley, following a protagonist with the supernatural ability to communicate with the dead as he faces escalating supernatural threats. Published between 1986 and 2020, the series concludes with its final entry, making it a complete saga. The books should be read in publication order, beginning with Necroscope and progressing through the numbered sequels before moving into the later volumes that continue and expand the established world.

Start with Necroscope, the first of 17 books in the Necroscope series.

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1	Necroscope 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Necroscope II: Wamphyri! / Vamphyri! 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Necroscope III: The Source 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Necroscope IV: Deadspeak 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Necroscope V: Deadspawn 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Blood Brothers 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Last Aerie 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Bloodwars 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Necroscope: The Lost Years 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Necroscope: Resurgence: The Lost Years, Volume 2 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Necroscope: Invaders 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Necroscope: Defilers 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Necroscope: Avengers 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Necroscope: The Touch 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Necroscope: The Plague-Bearer 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Necroscope: The Mobius Murders 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Necroscope: The Last of the Lost Years, Vol. II 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2007–2007)

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1	Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes! 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1999–2001)

The Necroscope: E-Branch trilogy comprises three horror and action novels published between 1999 and 2001 in the Necroscope universe. This complete series should be read in publication order, beginning with Invaders, followed by Defilers, and concluding with Avengers. The books build upon each other's events and developments, making sequential reading essential for following the narrative arc.

Start with Necroscope: Invaders and read in order.

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1	Necroscope: Invaders 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Necroscope: Defilers 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Necroscope: Avengers 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (1995–1995)

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1	The Lost Years 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1992–1994)

Brian Lumley's Necroscope: Vampire World trilogy concludes the extended Necroscope saga with three horror-action novels published between 1992 and 1994. The complete series should be read in publication order, beginning with Blood Brothers and continuing through The Last Aerie and Bloodwars. This concluded subseries combines elements of supernatural horror with adventure plotting within Lumley's established Necroscope universe.

Start with Blood Brothers and read in order.

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1	Blood Brothers 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Last Aerie 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Bloodwars 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2006–2009)

The New Adventures of the Necroscope is a two-book horror and action series by Brian Lumley, published between 2006 and 2009. The series is complete and should be read in publication order, beginning with Necroscope: The Touch followed by Necroscope: Harry and the Pirates. This closed series continues Lumley's established Necroscope universe with new adventures in the action-horror genre.

Start with Necroscope: The Touch and read in order.

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1	Necroscope: The Touch 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Necroscope: Harry and the Pirates 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2015–2015)

3 books (1984–1985)

Brian Lumley's Psychomech trilogy is a complete three-book horror and action series published between 1984 and 1985. The series consists of Psychomech, Psychosphere, and Psychamok, and should be read in publication order to follow the story's progression. These books combine elements of horror with action and adventure, offering readers a cohesive narrative arc across all three installments.

Start with Psychomech and read in order.

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1	Psychomech 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Psychosphere 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Psychamok 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1994–2013)

The Shadows Over Innsmouth series is a complete trilogy of horror anthologies published between 1994 and 2013, edited by Stephen Jones and featuring contributions from various authors including Hugh B. Cave. These three books should be read in publication order to experience the full collection. The series represents a collaborative exploration of weird fiction and cosmic horror themes across its span.

Start with Shadows Over Innsmouth(By: Stephen Jones) and read in order.

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1	Shadows Over Innsmouth(By: Stephen Jones) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth(By: Hugh B. Cave,Stephen Jones) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (1975–2004)

Brian Lumley's Short Stories and Novellas series comprises four collected works of horror and adventure fiction published between 1975 and 2004. The series is complete and should be read in publication order, beginning with Born of the Winds and continuing through Name and Number, Fruiting Bodies, and The House of the Temple. These volumes gather Lumley's shorter fiction, showcasing his distinctive voice across multiple horror narratives and adventure-tinged tales.

Start with Born of the Winds, the first of 4 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

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1	Born of the Winds 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Name and Number 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Fruiting Bodies 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The House Of The Temple 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

22 books (1971–2023)

Brian Lumley's Short Story Collections series comprises 22 books of horror and science fiction tales published from 1971 to 2023, beginning with The Caller of the Black and progressing through works like Dagon's Bell and Other Discords, Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi, and A Coven of Vampires. The series appears to be complete and should be read in publication order to experience Lumley's evolving style across five decades. These collections showcase the author's range within horror and action-adventure genres, including contributions from collaborators and companion volumes that provide critical context for his work.

Start with The Caller of the Black, the first of 22 books in the Short Story Collections series.

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1	The Caller of the Black 1971Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Horror at Oakdeene and Others 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Ghoul Warning And Other Omens 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Dagon's Bell and Other Discords 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Synchronicity, Or Something 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Return of the Deep Ones 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Compleat Khash 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Second Wish And Other Exhalations 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	A Coven of Vampires 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Whisperer and Other Voices 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Beneath the Moors and Darker Places 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Brian Lumley Companion(With: Stanley Wiater) 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Brian Lumley's Freaks 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Screaming Science Fiction 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes! 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Taint and Other Novellas 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Haggopian and Other Stories 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	The Nonesuch and Others 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	No Sharks in the Med and Other Stories 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Earth, Air, Fire & Water 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Brian Lumley's The Best of the Rest 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (1974–2011)

Brian Lumley's four standalone horror novels span from 1974 to 2011 and should be read in publication order: Beneath the Moors, Khai of Khem, Demogorgon, and The Fly-By-Nights. Though each book stands independently with its own story and setting, reading them chronologically by release date provides the best experience of Lumley's evolving style across horror and adventure fiction. The series is now complete.

Start with Beneath the Moors, the first of 4 books in the Standalone Novels series.

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1	Beneath the Moors 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Khai of Khem 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Demogorgon 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Fly-By-Nights 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1984–1991)

Brian Lumley's Tales of the Primal Land is a three-book fantasy horror series set in a distant, primordial world filled with dark magic and eldritch danger. The complete series was published between 1984 and 1991, with the three volumes being The House of Cthulhu, Sorcery in Shad, and Tarra Khash. Readers should follow the publication order to experience the story as intended, beginning with The House of Cthulhu.

Start with The House of Cthulhu and read in order.

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1	The House of Cthulhu 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Sorcery in Shad 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Tarra Khash 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

6 books (1974–1989)

Brian Lumley's Titus Crow series consists of six complete horror and adventure novels following the character through increasingly cosmic encounters. Published between 1974 and 1989, the books should be read in publication order beginning with The Burrowers Beneath and continuing through The Transition of Titus Crow, Spawn of the Winds, The Clock of Dreams, In the Moons of Borea, and concluding with Elysia. This finished series offers a full narrative arc across its six installments.

Start with The Burrowers Beneath, the first of 6 books in the Titus Crow series.

#	Title
1	The Burrowers Beneath 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Transition of Titus Crow 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Spawn of the Winds 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Clock of Dreams 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	In the Moons of Borea 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Elysia 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (1986–1986)

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1	The Compleat Crow 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible