Brian Lumley
Brian Lumley
Brian Lumleyis an English horror-fiction writer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth2 February 1937
aspiring book commented course happen maybe soon tale tales work
He commented that maybe I could write a mythos tale for a book he would soon edit, called Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. Of course I got to work on it right away. Hey, I mean, this should happen to every aspiring writer!
influenced time top writer
I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.
crow necessary novels six
If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.
guy hours
But there's a little guy who sits astride my brain with a whip, and if I'm away from the machine for more than a couple of hours during the day, this little guy's lashing away.
Now, after 18 years, not a sign of Lovecraft in my work.
chance english-writer great sleeping surface waiting
He went on about monsters, sleeping in great caverns underground and especially under the sea, waiting for a chance to take over the surface world.
giving entertainment pleasure
Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.
crazy romantic-love evil
But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.
hurt thinking forever
But while our parting was mutually acceptable and even expedient, still it was painful. And I would like to think it hurt both of us, for I certainly felt it: a wrenching inside, like some small but improbably necessary organ was no longer in there, that it was missing, torn or fallen out. And at the time I'd thought that was the end of it; what was missing was gone forever
father army years
If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didnt see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.
book greek
I have friends who read my books in Greek.
lifetime certain findings
And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.
real knowing thrill
German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.
writing ideas giving
I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore.