Wish Second - The Second Wish and Other Exhalations

By Brian Lumley

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Introduction copyright Brian Lumley, 1995.

The Second Wish, copyright Brian Lumley, 1980, first published in New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, ed. Ramsey Campbell, Arkham House, 1980.

The Sun, the Sea, and the Silent Scream, copyright Brian Lumley, first published in F&SF, Feb. 1988.

De Marignys Clock, copyright Brian Lumley, 1971, from The Caller of The Black, Arkham House, 1971.

The Luststone, copyright Brian Lumley, 1991, first published in Weird Tales, Fall 1991.

Mother Love, copyright Brian Lumley, 1971, first published in Witchcraft & Sorcery, May 1971.

What Dark God, copyright Brian Lumley, 1975. first published in Nameless Places, ed. G.W. Page, Arkham House, 1975.

The Thief Immortal, copyright Brian Lumley, first published in Weirdbook 25, Autumn 1990.

The House of the Temple, copyright Brian Lumley, 1980, first published in Kadath Vol I, No. 3, Nov. 1980.

Back Row, copyright Brian Lumley, 1988, first published in Terror Australis, Autumn 1988.

Name and Number, copyright Brian Lumley, 1982, first published in Kadath Vol II, No. 1, July 1982.

Snarkers Son, copyright Brian Lumley, 1980, first published in New Tales of Terror, ed. Hugh Lamb, Magnum 1980.

Rising with Surtsey, copyright Brian Lumley, 1971, first published in Dark Things, ed. August Derleth, Arkham House, 1971.

Davids Worm, copyright Brian Lumley, 1972, first published in Years Best Horror No. 2, ed. Richard Davis, Sphere Books, 1972.

Born in County Durham, he joined the British Armys 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.

In the 1970s he added to H. P. Lovecrafts Cthulhu Mythos cycle of stories, including several tales and a novel featuring the character Titus Crow. Several of his early books were published by Arkham House. Other stories pastiched Lovecrafts Dream Cycle but featured Lumleys original characters David Hero and Eldin the Wanderer. Lumley once explained the difference between his Cthulhu Mythos characters and Lovecrafts: My guys fight back. Also, they like to have a laugh along the way.

Later works included the Necroscope series of novels, which produced spin-off series such as the Vampire World Trilogy, The Lost Years parts 1 and 2, and the E-Branch trilogy. The central protagonist of the earlier Necroscope novels appears in the anthology Harry Keogh and Other Weird Heroes. The latest entry in the Necroscope saga is The Mobius Murders.

Lumley served as president of the Horror Writers Association from 1996 to 1997. In March 2010, Lumley was awarded Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association. He also received a World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2010.

Bibliography

Psychomech Trilogy

Psychomech

Psychosphere

Psychamok

Necroscope Series

Necroscope

Necroscope II: Wamphyri!

Necroscope III: The Source

Necroscope IV: Deadspeak

Necroscope V: Deadspawn

Vampire World I: Blood Brothers

Vampire World II: The Last Aerie

Vampire World III: Bloodwars

Necroscope: The Lost Years, Volume I

Necroscope: The Lost Years, Volume II

Necroscope: Invaders

Necroscope: Defilers

Necroscope: Avengers

Harry Keogh: Necroscope & Other Weird Heroes

Necroscope: The Touch

Necroscope: The Mbius Murders

H.P. Lovecrafts Dreamland Series

Hero of Dreams

Ship of Dreams

Mad Moon of Dreams

Iced on Aran

Other Novels and Collections

A Coven of Vampires

Beneath the Moors

Beneath the Moors and Darker Places

Brian Lumleys Freaks

Dagons Bell and Other Discords

Demogorgon

Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi

Ghoul Warning and Other Omens

Ghoul Warning and Other Omens and Other Omens

Haggopian and Other Stories

Harry and the Pirates

In the Moons of Borea

Khai of Ancient Khem

Maze of Worlds

No Sharks In The Med & Other Stories

Screaming Science Fiction

Sixteen Sucking Stories

Spawn of the Winds

Synchronicity, or Something

The Burrowers Beneath

The Caller of The Black

The Clock of Dreams

The Compleat Crow

The Compleat Khash: Volume One: Never a Backward Glance

The Fly-by-Nights

The Horror at Oakdeene and Others

The House of Cthulhu

The House of Doors

The House of the Temple

The Last Rite

The Nonesuch

The Plague-Bearer

The Return of the Deep Ones and Other Mythos Tales

The Second Wish and Other Exhalations

The Taint and Other Novellas

The Transition of Titus Crow

The Whisperer and Other Voices

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A couple of years ago I cropped Fruiting Bodies & Other Fungi; then Dagons Bell & Other Discords rang out; by all rights The Second Wish & Other Exhalations should be the last gasp, so to speak. A trilogy, with each book containing a witchs dozen of stories from across my twenty-five-year span as an author. So that by the time this one sees print, all or most of the short stories and novelettes that I would wish to preserve will have been collected in this, that, or the other volume.