Brian Lumley was born on the north-east coast of England on 2nd December 1937. He began writing relatively late in life in 1967, while serving in the British Army’s Corps of Royal Military Police, with 13 years still to go to complete a full military career of 22 years. In short he was a so-called“lifer.” He produced his early work very much under the influence of the best of the Weird Tales authors, Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith, and his first stories and books were published by the then “dean of macabre publishers,” August W. Derleth at the now legendary Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin.

Released from the Army December 1980, Lumley began writing full time and four years later completed his breakthrough novel, Necroscope®featuring Harry Keogh, a psychically endowed hero for the Great Majority, the teeming dead,with whom he is able to communicate as easily as with the living.

Necroscope® has now grown to 18 volumes published in 13countries and many millions of copies. In addition Necroscope® comicbooks, graphic novels, a role playing game, quality figurines and a series of audio books have been created from the much loved series. Moreover, the original story has been optioned for movies, a project that is still very much alive and kicking.

Along with the Necroscope® series, Lumley is the authorof more than 35 other titles; he is the winner of a British Fantasy Society short story award, of a Fear Magazine Award for Necroscope: the Source®, of a Lovecraft Film Festival Association “Howie,” of the World Horror Convention’s “Grand Master Award” and The Horror Writers Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award...and also, most recently, yet another Lifetime Achievement Award from The World Fantasy Convention.

For all of seven years Brian Lumley’s American wife Barbara Ann (Silky,) ran a small convention, an annual gathering of friends, fans and readers in general, dedicated to her husband’s work – more especially to Necroscope®. Alas that this friendly little con, KeoghCon, had tocome to an end when the Shedden Hall Hotel in Torquay, Devon,was sold back in 2007.

Although he is no longer (or seldom) writing novels, Lumley is still writing short stories and novellas, word of which is alwaysavailable on his websites at www.brianlumley.net and www.brianlumley.com; but he can also be found on Facebook as brianlumley.com, and Twitter. And lastly he does still attend the occasional convention, especially if it is close to home. (“For the USA,” as Brian is wont to say, “is a very long way; it’s also very expensive to get to–and sometimes a whole lot of work once you’re there!”)