- Hardcover
- Publisher: W Paul Ganley Pub (Jun 1986)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0932445187
- ISBN-13: 978-0932445186
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,540,239 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"One of the best writers in the field."--John Farris
"Lumely wields a pen with the deft skill of a surgeon."--"The Phoenix Gazette"
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"Lumely wields a pen with the deft skill of a surgeon."--"The Phoenix Gazette"
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Something vital is missing from David Hero's comfortable, ordinary existence. One day is much like the next, simple, predictable...boring.
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Format:Paperback
This is probably my favorite Brian Lumley story based in the Dreamlands of HP Lovecraft, including his much hyped Titus Crow series. In this one, Lumley keeps it simple which is what suits him most as an author. Two guys are bored of life but they love to dream, they both cross paths but not in the waking world and become freelance swords-for-hire. This books establishes Lumley's take on the Lovecraftian dream-cycle and it's a fun read while it lasts. His characters are fun loving, wine drinking, swash buckling vagabonds with a lust for life and beautiful women. They slay wicked sorcerers and demi-gods, climb mountains, explore subterranean worlds and rescue comely maidens from certain death and worse. It's a short little book but contains a lot of imagination and epic, fantastical imagery. I've read all four books in this series and I must say that this one is the best.
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Pulp Adventure set in HPL's Dreamlands
2 Mar 2001
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This novel is a series of action-oriented stories set in H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands (which themselves are largely inspired by the work of Dunsany).
The characters, adventures and pacing are very reminiscent of the sort of thing you'll find in Burroughs novels, Leiber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser stories, or some of the less gloomy fantasy books by Moorcock. The protaganists are out of the "loveable rogue" mold, guys who are selfish and a bit shifty, but with good hearts, who wind up doing the right thing when their backs are to the wall.
Lovecraft's Dreamlands provide an interesting setting for all the action. HPL's own stories in the setting are usually more about exploration, with nary a fight scene to be found. However, the setting suits an action story well.
So, overall, it's entertaining in the same sort of fun mindless way that a Sinbad movie is. Fans of the kinds of fantasy stories I mentioned above will enjoy the novel, and may find the setting interesting enough to interest them in HPL's dreamlands stories. Or, if you're an open-minded Lovecraft fanatic, you'll be fascinated by the little extensions and additions to the original Lovecraft setting.
Yes, it's self-indulgent; yes, it's not terribly original; yes, it's somewhat shallow. But, if you're willing to accept all that, it's great fun.
Not Lovecraft, but a fun read
14 Mar 2007
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Lumley has the wonderful talent to make Lovecraft more commercial. This series is no different. It's about two ne'er do wells in our world who die and now live in Lovecraft's Dreamland. There, when they are not drinking or wenching, they help the people in Dreamland fight off the denizens of the Cthulhu mythos, up to and including Cthulhu him or her self. It's fun, but if you are REAL Lovecraft scholar you probably won't like it. I really love Lovecraft's writing and his concepts of horror, but these are just so much fun to read that I think even HPL would love it.
Offspring of Lovecraft and Edgar Rice Burroughs
16 Sep 2006
Format:Mass Market Paperback
If you were to cross H.P. Lovecraft' with Edgar Rice Burroughs the end result would probably be Brian Lumley's HERO OF DREAMS. Add a dash of Conan the Barbarian and you get the picture. The story takes place in the Dreams of the two main characters, David Hero and Professor Dingle, known as Hero and Eldin in the Dreamlands. The dreamlands are the same ones described and created by H.P. Lovecraft in his novel The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and the monsters encountered by Hero and Eldin are from the same cloth. This is where the resemblence to Lovecraft ends and the pulpish sword & sorcery reminicent of Howard or Burroughs begins. The protagonists of this story are your typical good-hearted rouges who do the right thing in the end although their motives are not always pure.
Altogether an enjoyable tale if you are into sword & sorcery and pulp fiction type adventures.
Altogether an enjoyable tale if you are into sword & sorcery and pulp fiction type adventures.
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