I haven’t started on the novels as yet though I feel this gave me a pretty solid idea of the titular white wizard, his sidekick Henri de Marigny and the setting in mid-20th century England.
It’s preposterous that the world is seething with so many unnatural menaces and it’s also a lot of silly fun. That includes such varieties as Judeo-Christian, Cthulhu Mythos, Norse, African, you name it really. Titus Crow is very much a Sherlock Holmes figure, if Holmes were in a bonkers alternate universe where every ancient mystery and occult, mystical and supernatural horror is real. That is, thoroughly entertaining and high quality pulp. But then, ‘everyone’ can get knotted because this is exactly what I hoped it would be. The Compleat Crow is not going to be a five star book for everyone. 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. 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.īut 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 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.’ ‘He was tall and broad-shouldered, and it was plain to see that in his younger days he had been a handsome man.
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