BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES

BRIAN LUMLEY
Brian Lumley was born on the north-east coast of England on 2nd December 1937. He began writing, relatively late in life, in 1967 in Berlin, while a career Sergeant, a “lifer,” in the British Army’s Corps of the Royal Military Police. He produced his early work very much under the influence of the best of the Weird Tales authors, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith, and his first stories and books were published by the then “dean of macabre publishers,” August W. Derleth at the now legendary “Arkham House,” in Sauk City, Wisconsin.
Released by the Army back into civilian life (after serving at the RMP HQ as the Training Sgt. Major and Administrative Warrant Officer), Lumley began a full-time writing career and five years later completed his breakthrough novel, Necroscope®, featuring Harry Keogh, a hero for the Great Majority (the teeming dead), with whom Harry, the Necroscope, was able to communicate as easily as with the living.
Necroscope® has now grown to 20 volumes, been published world-wide in many millions of copies, and will soon add Japan to the present list of 13 countries. This list covers most of Europe along with the Czech Republic and Russia. Necroscope® is a Lumley trademark across Europe and the US, where a role-playing game, graphic novels, quality figurines and many E- and Audio-books have been created from the much-loved series.
Along with the books of the Necroscope® series, Lumley is the author of more than 40 additional novels, novellas and/or collection titles he is also the winner of a “British Fantasy Society” short story award for Fruiting Bodies, a “Fear Magazine’s Award” for Necroscope®: The Source, a “Lovecraft Film Festival Association’s ‘Howie,’” for his Lovecraftian work, the World Horror Convention’s prestigious “Grand Master Award,” and “The Horror Writers’ Association’s ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’”... and also, most recently, another “Lifetime Achievement Award” from The World Fantasy Convention.
For seven years Lumley’s American wife, Barbara Ann, ran a small convention, a gathering of friends and fans in general, dedicated to her husband’s work. Alas that this friendly get-together had to come to an end when the venue, The Sheddon Hall Hotel, a beach-front hotel in Torquay, Devon, UK, was sold in 2007.
Although he is no longer (or seldom) found writing novels, Brian keeps busy with short stories and novellas, news of which is available on websites at www.brianlumley.net in the What's Happening link.
You can also find information on Brian at www.brianlumley.com as well as on Facebook. Facebook is Brian Lumley, brianlumley.com and Barbara Ann Lumley and IMDB.Brian no longer does the conventions.

BARBARA ANN (SILKY) LUMLEY

A 1967 graduate of Glen Burnie High School in Maryland, Barbara Ann received a diploma in the Commercial Business Course. Before settling down in any one specific field, she spent several working at The Mercantile Safe Deposit & Trust Bank in Baltimore, then worked as a temp and as a result benefited from all kinds of diversified training. This period included work at Eastern Petroleum in Glen Burnie, at the Westinghouse Corporation in publishing in Linthicum, and five years at Exxon in the Towson Accounting Center, doing work in the secretarial pool as well as doing statistical typing. When the accounting center relocated she declined an offer of further work in Houston.One half of her 26 year career before moving to the UK was spent in publishing. She worked for Technical Typesetting in Arbutus for 15 years. This was typing text and mathematical equations and doing pagination for journals for the likes of electronic and electrical engineers, chemistry, combustion and flame, antennas and propagation, etc. Most of the work was done for The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.) which is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology.Since moving to UK in 1993 and becoming Mrs. Lumley she has been self-employed … she still works in publishing as Brian's full time Literary Agent and in addition is the Secretary/Business Manager to Brian. Her favorite way to pass the time is reading … when time allows.