Brian Lumley

Born 2nd December, 1937, Brian Lumley came into the world just nine months after the most obvious of his forebears - meaning of course a "literary" forebear, namely, H. P. Lovecraft - had departed from it. By his pre-teens Lumley had read Dracula and some other horror classics, but having followed the adventures of Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future in the British Eagle comic, his first love was Science Fiction. Then, in his early teens - as a result of reading Robert Bloch's Lovecraft pastiche Notebook Found in a Deserted House in a British SF magazine - he became more surely attracted to macabre fiction, an attraction that has lasted a lifetime.