The Compleat Crow
MASTER OF ARCANE ARTS
‘He was tall and broad-shouldered, and it was plain to see that in his younger days he had been a handsome man. Now his hair had greyed a little and his eyes, though they were still very bright and observant, bore the imprint of many a year spent exploring – and often, I guessed, discovering – along rarely trodden paths of mysterious and obscure learning.’
Mysterious, obscure learning...
To many thousands of readers all over the world Titus Crow is the occult investigator, psychic sleuth and cosmic voyager of Brian Lumley’s novels of the Cthulhu Mythos from The Burrowers Beneath to Elysia.
But before the Burrowers and Crow’s Transition, his exploits were chronicled in a series of short stories and novellas previously uncollected in a British edition. Now these stories can be told. From ‘Inception’, which tells of his origins, to ‘The Black Recalled’, a tale of vengeance from beyond the grave, here in one volume, from the bestselling author of the epic NECROSCOPE series, is THE COMPLEAT CROW.
Contents:
- Concerning Titus Crow (essay)
- Inception
- Lord of the Worms
- The Caller of the Black
- The Viking's Stone
- The Mirror of Nitocris
- An Item of Supporting Evidence
- Billy's Oak
- Darghud's Doll
- De Marigny's Clock
- Name and Number
- The Black Recalled
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Brian Lumley
Brian Lumley, 1937-2024, was an English horror fiction writer.
Born in County Durham, he joined the British Army's Royal Military Police and wrote stories in his spare time before retiring with the rank of Warrant Officer Class 1 in 1980 and becoming a professional writer.
He added to H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos cycle of stories, including several tales featuring the character Titus Crow. Others pastiched Lovecrafts's Dream Cycle and featured the characters David Hero and Eldin the Wanderer. Lumley once explained the difference between his Cthulhu Mythos characters and Lovecraft's: "My guys fight back. Also, they like to have a laugh along the way."
Titus Crow
Titus Crow consists of six primary books, and includes one additional book that complement the series but is not considered mandatory reads. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
Main series Cthulhu Cycle Deities Novels
Related series Titus Crow (omnibus editions)

