Series
Titus Crow
Brian Lumley · 6 novels · 1 novella · 2 novelettes · 9 short stories · 1 collection · 1970–1989
Brian Lumley's Titus Crow series follows the occult investigator of the same name as he confronts the Great Old Ones of the Cthulhu Mythos across time and alternate dimensions, aided by a sentient clock capable of interdimensional travel. Building on Lovecraft's cosmic-horror framework, Lumley leans further into pulp adventure and heroic confrontation than Lovecraft's own restraint. The core novels have been repackaged many times across overlapping omnibus editions.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(5 editions)
Map
Titus Crow at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s12
- 1980s7
Shape
6 novels · 1 novella · 2 novelettes · 9 short stories · 1 collection
1 author · completed series
reads like:cosmic horrorgodsotherworldtimeless or unspecifieddarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 90% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book10 of 19 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Black Recalleddarkest · calmest
- The Transition of Titus Crowbrightest · most intense