Brian Lumley Reading Order

55 books (1969–2018)

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

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

3 books (1986–1987)

Start with Hero of Dreams and read in order.

#	Title
1	Hero of Dreams 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	Ship of Dreams 1986Buy 🇺🇸
3	Mad Moon of Dreams / Second Visit 1987Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1990–1990)

#	Title
1	Iced on Aran and Other Dream Quests 1990Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1991–1998)

Start with The House of Doors and read in order.

#	Title
1	The House of Doors 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	Maze of Worlds 1998Buy 🇺🇸

17 books (1986–2020)

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

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

1 book (2007–2007)

#	Title
1	Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes! 2007Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1999–2001)

Start with Necroscope: Invaders and read in order.

#	Title
1	Necroscope: Invaders 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Necroscope: Defilers 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	Necroscope: Avengers 2001Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1995–1995)

#	Title
1	The Lost Years 1995Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1992–1994)

Start with Blood Brothers and read in order.

#	Title
1	Blood Brothers 1992Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Last Aerie 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	Bloodwars 1994Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2006–2009)

Start with Necroscope: The Touch and read in order.

#	Title
1	Necroscope: The Touch 2006Buy 🇺🇸
2	Necroscope: Harry and the Pirates 2009Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2015–2015)

3 books (1984–1985)

Start with Psychomech and read in order.

#	Title
1	Psychomech 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	Psychosphere 1984Buy 🇺🇸
3	Psychamok 1985Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1994–2013)

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

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

4 books (1975–2004)

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

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

22 books (1971–2023)

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

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

4 books (1974–2011)

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

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

3 books (1984–1991)

Start with The House of Cthulhu and read in order.

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

6 books (1974–1989)

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

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

1 book (1986–1986)

#	Title
1	The Compleat Crow 1986Buy 🇺🇸