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The Titus Crow novels are adventure horror, full of acts of nobility and heroism, featuring travel to exotic locations and alternate planes of existence as Titus Crow and his faithful companion and record-keeper fight the gathering forces of darkness wherever they arise. The menaces are the infamous and deadly Elder Gods of the work of H.P. Lovecraft. Chthulu and his dark minions are bent on ruling the earth--or destroying it. A few puny humans cannot possibly stand against these otherworldly evil gods, yet time after time, Titus Crow defeats the monsters and drives them back into the dark from whence they came. Volume One contains two full novels, The Burrowers Beneath and The Transition of Titus Crow.
- Sales Rank: #162431 in Books
- Published on: 1999-01-15
- Released on: 1999-01-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 228.60" h x .78" w x 6.00" l, .87 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
Amazon.com Review
The two novels contained in the first volume of Titus Crow--"The Burrowers Beneath" and "The Transition of Titus Crow" (originally published in 1974 and 1975)--are a matched set marking the introduction of Brian Lumley's Sherlockian paranormal investigator, Titus Crow, and Crow's Watsonesque partner, Henri-Laurent de Marginy. Both tales are grounded in the Cthulu mythos originated by H.P. Lovecraft, but Lumley offers an effortless introduction to Cthulu for newcomers.
While Lumley is perhaps best known now for Necroscope, the Crow novels (which also include those collected in Titus Crow, Volume Two and Titus Crow, Volume Three) offer an early glimpse at the creative talents of a contemporary horror master. Crow is a fascinating character--an obsessed genius uncovering ancient gods in a late-20th-century world that is blind to its imminent destruction. At the same time, de Marginy, writing through epistles and journals, brings a naive immediacy to the narratives. Lumley's prose has a baroque feel that lends an antique patina to Crow's world (supposedly in the 1960s and '70s), and his blend of horror à la Lovecraft, adventure reminiscent of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and techno-science fiction with shades of Asimov is always pleasantly surprising. Titus Crow makes for solid and enjoyable reading that deftly crosses genres. It's a pleasure to have these novels in a readily available form again. --Patrick O'Kelley
From Publishers Weekly
Although horror writer Lumley is best-known in the U.S. for his Necroscope series, he first achieved international attention for his Titus Crow saga, modeled on H.P. Lovecraft's seminal Cthulhu mythos. This volume, containing the short novels The Burrowers Beneath and The Transition of Titus Crow, is the first of three Titus Crow volumes to be published by Tor, each of which will contain two novels. Lumley's style here is straight out of the classic pulp era, fast-paced and full of eerie landscapes and sinister plots. Titus Crow and his Watsonian sidekick, Henri Laurent de Marigny, face one danger after another with a mix of horrified fascination and grim determination. In The Burrowers Beneath, research into a series of underground disturbances leads the duo into a deadly encounter with the evil minions of Cthulhu. A cliffhanger ending segues directly into The Transition of Titus Crow, in which an antique grandfather clock turns out to be a vehicle for traveling through space and time. Lumley's settings are worthy of H.G. Wells as well as Lovecraft. The ornate style retains the distinctive tone of Lovecraft's work without being excessive, offering a refreshing change of pace from the usual, hard-driving modern horror novel.
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From Kirkus Reviews
First hardcover volume of three, each holding two Titus Crow novels from Lumley's earlier days as an H.P. Lovecraft disciple. Lumley is best-known for his Harry Keogh Necroscope vampire cycle (Necroscope: Resurgence Vol.II, The Lost Years, p. 1178, etc.). The two ``adventure-horror'' novels in the present book, The Burrowers Beneath and The Transition of Titus Crow, were written back in 1974 and 1975, when fantastic elaboration and great arabesques of description spooled out like bolts of paisley were more highly prized than they are today. Lumley borrows wholesale from Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos, going into greater anthropological detail than the master cared to on those indescribable protoplasmic horrors with tentacled faces, the underground spawn of the gray, milelong mass of evil called Cthulhu, who swims ``into the deeper magma, against strange tides of molten-rock oceans, those oceans which hold these lily pads we call continents afloat!'' Cthulhu's children build nests, slowly multiply, and are given such names as Yibb-Tsill, Yog-Sothoth, Ithaqua, Hastur, and Lloigor. In The Burrowers Beneath, Titus Crow and Henri de Marigny join forces with a secret group pledged to fight the subterranean monsters. The telepathic creatures, it turns out, fear radiation and water, so Titus, Henri, and their comrades devise some ingenious ways to use these elements against them. At novel's end, Crow and Marigny tumble into a time-machine. In Transition, they return ten years later, looking hardly a day older. In fact, a robot culture in time-space has rebuilt Titus, turning him into a synthetic man in a considerably improved version of a human body. Transition follows Titus's adventures in time, ranging from his tour of Earth's earliest days to his trip forward to the end of time, and including his visit to Elysia, the home of the Elder Gods who were responsible for imprisoning the evil Cthulhu underground. Hideous mobile sludge, hellish dreams, babbling madness, the horror, the horror! -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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The World's Greatest Dreamers........
By Arthur von Boennighausen
Friends:
Dean Koontz has a story called " The Ancient Enemy " that is similar to this. It was made into a movie called " Phantoms " starring Peter O'Toole for those who would enjoy seeing this sort of story on DVD.
I am reading this book and the others in the series as I read " The Clock of Dreams " many, many years ago and want to savor the stories published before and after this one. Brian Lumley may be a better storyteller than HP Lovecraft or at least his equal but he is standing on the shoulder of a giant.
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Best Stories I have ever read
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In the late 1970's while I was serving in the US Navy I read a lot, I love History, and Science, but also Science Fiction. I must have read thousands of stories, one of the stories that really stood out for me was The Transition of Titus Crow, and the Clock of Dreams, I read these books in a Navy Library where you must read the book on the premises. For many years following I looked for these books every where and could never find them. Here I am now in the future and I finally have these great books thanks to Amazon.com. Thank you Amazon, your friend Daniel of Nebraska.
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Poorly paced jumble
By Gregory
First of all, I own Burrower Beneath on my Kindle. The electronic editions of The Burrower Beneath and The Transition of Titus Crow are not bundled together, but because Amazon's review system is totally unable to cope when different "editions" of the same book are substantially different from one another, I'm fairly sure that my review of this one book will appear as a review for the two-book paperback bundle. Nothing I can do about that, but do be aware that I'm only reviewing the one book here (they are two different books, published a year apart, even if the one seems to lead directly into the other).
Second of all, there's kind of a divide among Lovecraft fans re: August Derleth, who was massively important in publicizing Lovecraft, and started the careers of many aspiring Mythos writers, but who imposed a cosmology on the Mythos very different from anything Lovecraft envisioned. So if you're the kind of fan who gets upset over Derleth, turn away--this novel is very much in the Derleth vein of good versus evil. Personally, I always find it interesting to see different writers re-image the same basic concept in their own way, so I don't mind that, but I certainly can understand why a Lovecraft fan might want his Lovecraft pastiche to be Lovecraftian, and this really isn't. (I mean, you can see from the two star rating that I'm not going to recommend this book, but it won't be because of Derleth's influence.)
The beginning of the book is functional; Titus Crow and Henri are introduced (damnation via faint praise: they're as well-developed as any of Lovecraft's protagonists), and we get a story of a miner who went down into a mine and saw certain things. Then we get a chapter called Cement Surroundings; this was originally a short story published elsewhere, and you start to get the sense that Lumley isn't quite sure what he's doing. "Cement Surroundings" is one of those mystery/horror stories so dear to Lovecraft where both the reader and narrator start the story with no real idea of what's going on; the truth slowly dawns on them together until the (hopefully) shocking conclusion where all is revealed. Lumley put this story in a novel named after the main monster, after a chapter that will (together with the title) already have given away what's going on in "Cement Surroundings." That could have been better done.
But the real problem is what comes after: nothing much. The main characters talk about the events of Cement Surroundings for a chapter. They summarize the Lovecraft Mythos (as envisioned by August Derleth). Crow offers up his theories about the occult (they are very, very silly, and involve the Great Old Ones being brainwashed by the Elder Gods). The bad guys prove how dangerous they are by giving the narrator bad dreams until Crow puts a stop to that with some holy water. An organization (the Wilmarth Foundation) dedicated to destroying the Great Old Ones is introduced, and we have to suffer through a chapter-long summary of their history. We're 65% of the way through the book (reading it on my Kindle, so I can't give you a page count) before anything interesting happens, and that interesting thing ... is a previously published short story (The Night Sea-Maid Went Down) that has literally nothing to do with the plot of the novel. ("... I had no idea it would be so easy to convert you to the Foundation's cause. Because of my uncertainty I gathered together certain testimonials which I hoped would convince you" is the excuse the book gives for including this story). Despite how completely ridiculous it was, I was glad for it, because even if the plot wasn't advancing, at least it was better than reading about the Wilmarth Foundation for another twenty pages.
After the Wilmarth Foundation is introduced, the pacing manages to get even worse, because now the action is being carried by a bunch of nameless Foundation members, mostly offstage. There is one OK chapter, where Crow and Henri are attacked directly by one of the monsters (they came into contact with one earlier, who actually tells them to "feel his wrath." The chapter I'm talking about is helped incredibly by the fact that the monster doesn't talk during it). But you can't get away from the fact that if Crow and Henri had died during the first chapter, the story would pretty much have carried on regardless--in fact, it's hard for me to say why the monster attacks them during that chapter I mentioned, since they don't seem to be doing anything. During the second-to-last chapter, we even get a moment where the Foundation asks Henri to take part in their monster-hunting activity, and he's like, "Sorry dudes, I have a real job" (OK, so he doesn't phrase it exactly like that, but the basic idea--Wilmarth Foundation does stuff offstage while Henri and Crow just sort of hang out--is the same). The last chapter is a cliffhanger to try to get me to buy the next book; but since even reviewer who liked Burrowers don't seem to have enjoyed Transition, I think I'll give that a miss.
Putting aside the absolutely dreadful pacing, Lumley makes most of the traditional mistakes Mythos writers make. He has his characters trying to talk like Lovecraft, and just sounding ridiculous ("I recall him saying something about frightening dimensions, 'a gateway to hideous times and spaces,' and his mention of 'a lake of elder horror, where nightmare entities splash by a cloud-wave shore as twin suns sink into distant mists.'" Yeh, I'll bet you do). He's so desperately eager to root his story into the Mythos that every entity Lovecraft ever mentioned (and some only mentioned by Derleth and company) is crammed awkwardly into the story; as well as plenty of badly placed references to Lovecraft stories that don't really fit into his narrative, only he wants to remind everyone that he's writing a Mythos novel (e.g. there's a summary of Shadow Over Innsmouth that comes out of left field and serves absolutely no purpose except to assure the reader that Lumley read Shadow Over Innsmouth). Having come up with his own conception of how facets of the mythos work, he shoehorns them into his novel, because goddammit, if he went to the trouble of deciding that Nyarlathotep is actually just telepathic communication between the Great Old Ones, then we can go to the trouble of reading it! But the novel has nothing to do with Nyarlathotep? So what? Let's shove it in there anyway, right after the paragraph about Ithaqua (which has nothing to do with the plot of the novel; see my second complaint in this paragraph), but before the paragraph where he explains that there are Lovecraftian monstrosities living on the Moon.
In the end, two republished short stories and one good chapter can't drag this novel up past two stars. If you want to read Lumley (and I actually rather like him, as a short story writer--this was his first novel, which I think explains his pacing issues), I recommend Haggopian and Other Tales, which includes both Cement Surroundings and The Night the Seamaid Went Down, as well as some short Titus Crow Stories and some unrelated Mythos stuff)
p.s. For Kindle readers only: it's fine. Working table of contents, not a lot of typos or any of the other problems that Kindle editions sometimes have.
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