BRIAN LUMLEY's 4 hardcover DREAMLAND books (featuring Hero & Eldin)

Description: Four "Dreamland" booksby BRIAN LUMLEY HERO OF DREAMS SHIP OF DREAMS MAD MOON OF DREAMSICED ON ARAN and Other Dream Quests first edition trade hardcovers LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES illustrated by: JEAN CORBIN, ALLEN KOSZOWSKI, DAVE CARSON, and STEPHEN E. FABIAN "Swords & Sorcery" with a Cthulhuvian twist! These books were published in first-edition trade hardcover editions, limited to 1000 copies. (The numbered, slipcased hard cover editions are out of print.) Note: if you want just one or two of these titles, each is now listed separately in my eBay store. David Hero is an Edinburgh artist who has odd snatches of memory that seem to come from another world — the world of dreams. But DREAMLAND is real, located in a parallel dimension of the multiverse, created by the dreams of mankind... and by the dreams of others, including Cthulhu. When Hero first met his friend Eldin the Wanderer in Dreamland, and then encountered him again in Edinburgh, there was a crisis... and both ended up in Dreamland together as adventurers, with only vague memories of the waking world.Dreamland was devised by H P Lovecraft, and most extensively utilized in his short novel, "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath," which is as close as HPL could get to a sword-and-sorcery story (his hero, Carter, did carry a sword at one point but it didn't do him much good). When I looked back at HPL's story after reading Lumley's, I was vastly impressed by Lumley's detailed knowledge of the "Dream-Quest!" Lumley's "dreams" novels are swords-and-sorcery stories too, with some nasty horrors encountered on the way. But whereas HPL wrote in the style of the 19th century (which he naturally inbibed as a child from reading the old books in his grandfather's library), Lumley is a modern storyteller. Let me repeat my comment on these Dreams novels... These novels are not intended to be taken too seriously (which does NOT mean that there are no moments of sheer horror through these novels). Elsewhere, Brian Lumley tells us that what he had in mind while writing them was Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in their old "Road" movies. So just enjoy them as they are! (And anyway, how serious was H P Lovecraft when he took Randolph Carter back from Dreamland's moon in a "great leap of cats.") In HERO OF DREAMS we meet night-gaunts, Thinistor Udd and Yibb-Tstll, the Great Tree, the Eidolon Lathi and her noxious hive, Thalarion, the First Ones who settled in Theem'hdra, and the Mad First One who worshipped Cthulhu and sought to release him from his age-old imprisonment in R'lyeh. In SHIP OF DREAMS we meet night-gaunts again (including a human gaunt-master), King Kuranes, Zura the zombie queen, and have lots of fun with flying armadas from the sky-city of Serannian. In MAD MOON OF DREAMS, the whole world is turned about: former enemies become allies against two Great Old Ones, Mnomquah (in his moon prison) and Oorn (on Dreamland's earth). Baleful yellow beams strike earth and suck up people and animals to be used as fodder in an evil plot to destroy the Dreamlands (and with them, the Waking World). ... And Hero and Eldin suffer a curious fate there on the moon... In ICED ON ARAN we find several stories about Hero and Eldin, sometimes funny, sometimes exquisitely terrifying. Two other Hero/Eldin novelettes are not included in this book (The Weird Wines of Naxas Niss and Stealer of Dreams) because they were written later: they appeared in print for the first time ever in WEIRDBOOK numbers 26 & 27, however — issues which are still in print (check my other buy-it-now items for more details). First edition (first printing) hardcover books published at $21 to $25 apiece by W. Paul Ganley: Publisher in 1986-1987. They have wonderful artwork including the dust jackets and lots of interior art... check out the individual copy listings for some examples of the artwork! WOW! I wrote a book!!! — Want to take a look??? ———just go here:http://www.ebay.com/itm/CTHULHU'S-COUSINS-and-Other-Weirdnesses-W-Paul-Ganley-Wildside-Press-2016-/255154711891?hash=item3ace43fc32 Want to look at my other first-edition Lumley books? CLICK HERE For all "buy it now" items, please use ADD TO CART if you plan to order more than one item at the same time.

Price: 76 USD

Location: Buffalo, New York

End Time: 2024-10-10T19:17:58.000Z

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