BRIAN LUMLEY:

The Great Old Ones (as H P Lovecraft originally told us) existed long before the dawn of the human race. They conquered worlds, fought incredible battles, and mastered magic and science. Yet to us they seemed evil. And since that era, unable to be killed, they have been imprisoned in special places: Cthulhu in aeon-sunken R'lyeh; Hastur in the lake of Hali in Carcosa; Ithaqua in the wastes of the Arctic, etc. But they have their worshippers who seek to free them...

The Cthulhu Mythos was devised by H P Lovecraft, and extensively utilized in such stories as "The Call of Cthulhu." Furthermore, he urged his author-friends to add to the Mythos. As stories by Robert E. Howard, Henry Kuttner, Robert Bloch, and August Derleth poured forth, the mythos grew ... and in some ways became very different from his original conception. One of the many modern writers (such as Ramsey Campbell, Stephen King, the list is almost endless) who have used the concept of the mythos is Brian Lumley.

But who imprisoned the Great Old Ones? One answer to this is the Elder Gods who live in Elysia, a mysterious land not in our universe.

This is the culminating novel in "Titus Crow" series of Cthulhu Mythos novels by Lumley... and it also includes some other characters from the Hero/Eldin Dreams books and from the Khash novels.  For further information, check photo #2, which shows the dust jacket flaps.

Even if you have this novel in another edition, you may enjoy having this illustrated first hard cover edition.

Some of the interior full page art has been photographed and displayed in photographs 3-7.