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Loading... Return of the Deep Ones and Other Mythos Tales (original 1994; edition 1994)by Brian Lumley
Work InformationReturn of the Deep Ones and Other Mythos Tales by Brian Lumley (1994)
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HTML: Brian Lumley, author of the bestselling Necroscope and Vampire World series of novels, has for many years been a devotee' of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, by such nightmare fables as Dagon, The Call of Cthulhu The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Lovecraft's legendary Deep Ones have taken their place in terror fiction alongside the vampire and the werewolf. Now they are given the Lumley treatment inâ??RETURN OF THE DEEP ONES! But the Mythos was not restricted to tales of oceanic horror; nightmares out of space and timeâ??and inner earthâ??abound in Lovecraft's fiction. Thus, with the addition of Beneath the Moors, Inception, and the novella, Lord of the Worms, Brian Lumley offers his latest homage to Lovecraft the Master. Now, from forbidden depths of dream and ocean, the RETURN OF THE DEEP ONES! In the field of no-holds-barred terror fiction, there's Brian Lumleyâ??and then there's the r No library descriptions found. |
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The main meat, THE RETURN OF THE DEEP ONES is a short novel that feels like it could have been a lot shorter, given that the big reveal happens very early on and after that we're left with a lot of padding to make it up to a length.
BENEATH THE MOORS is better paced, and has a better sense of place, with its moorland and caverns setting being particularly well evoked. Again there's a bit of padding, in epistolary form, but the plot moves along quickly enough that it doesn't get in the way.
The other two tales are Titus Crow stories, one a nice origin story that was genuinely creepy, and the other the tale of Crow pitting his wits against an ancient sorceror that didn't do much for me at all.
So all in all, some hits, some misses, and nowhere near as imaginative and wild as his Necroscope work, but still, solid enough, and it passed the time well enough. (