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* DoAnythingRobot: The Curator was made in Elysia and has several different types of EyeBeams to do whatever he wishes - including DisintegratorRay, FrickinLaserBeams, TractorBeam, AgonyBeam and etc.
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* LukeIAmYourFather: "Henri, I am your father's father many times over." The sorcer Exior K'mool made a DealWithTheDevil with Cthulhu himself for immortality. Exior got ripped off, because Cthulhu pronounced that the only true immortality is continuing one's bloodline. So Cthulhu gave Exior some really [[GenerationXerox dominant genes]] - so much that Henri, who's a descendant million of years down the line, is a dead-ringer for Exior and even has Exior's talent for magic as does Henri's own father.
* OddlyOvertrainedSecurity: The Curator hasdevastating mighty EyeBeams and it can sense the slightest desire to steal an item from its Museum. The characters wonder why such a powerful being is guarding the museum. After discovering how to communicated with the alien Curator, it turns out that prevents the inhabitants of Dreamland from stealing dangerous items from into the museum and ruining the precious and unique dreams inside, while simultaneously preventing dangerous things nightmares in the museum from escaping into Dreamland.Dreamland.
* PowerPerversionPotential: Exior is one horny sorcerer and he uses his magic to make himself a harem of lamia and succubi who are constantly {{Mooning}} him or rubbing their breasts against him. When he discovers that Henri is a descendant of his, Exior exclaims that it looks like the lamia and succubi were good for something after all.
* OddlyOvertrainedSecurity: The Curator has
* PowerPerversionPotential: Exior is one horny sorcerer and he uses his magic to make himself a harem of lamia and succubi who are constantly {{Mooning}} him or rubbing their breasts against him. When he discovers that Henri is a descendant of his, Exior exclaims that it looks like the lamia and succubi were good for something after all.
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* BigNo: Cthulhu can only scream out "Nooo!!!" three times, once he realizes that Elysia is a trap and that he and the other Cthulhu Cycle Deities are going to be lobotomized by the Azathoth spawn that powers Elysia and is now going supernova and then transforming into a black hole.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Elysia is destroyed and the Elder Gods missing but the Great Old Ones are bound for another cycle which will probably last millions if not billions of years. And a new Elysia will be made on Arcturus.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Elysia is destroyed and the Elder Gods missing but the Great Old Ones are bound for another cycle which will probably last millions if not billions of years. And a new Elysia will be made on Arcturus.]]
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* EyeBeams: Kthanid can shoot these and they're even more powerful than the weapon on the Time Clock. Kthanid curbstomps Nyarlathotep with them.
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* EnemyMine: Henri works with Hero and Eldin's enemies: Zura of Zura, the Princess of Death and the eidolon Lathi of Thalarion to save Hero and Eldin from the moonbeast, Gudge the pirate. It helps that King Kuranes gave Zura and Lathi an ultimatum backed by force and Gudge had double-crossed both villainesses.
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* SpecialGuest: Hero of Dreams and Eldin the Wanderer from Lumley's ''Dream Cycle'' appear and have an important role in the story.
* StarfishRobot: The Curator is described as a robot that's vaguely man-like, but it's got many different arms and it likes to spend its days hanging upside down from the bridge to the Museum of Dreams. It's tall and spiky yet oddly lumpen as well. It has multi-faceted crystal eyes. All this combined, reminds Henri of a metallic insect.
* SpecialGuest: Hero of Dreams and Eldin the Wanderer from Lumley's ''Dream Cycle'' appear and have an important role in the story.
* StarfishRobot: The Curator is described as a robot that's vaguely man-like, but it's got many different arms and it likes to spend its days hanging upside down from the bridge to the Museum of Dreams. It's tall and spiky yet oddly lumpen as well. It has multi-faceted crystal eyes. All this combined, reminds Henri of a metallic insect.
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* MarsNeedsWomen: The Great Old Ones and Elder Gods are mostly male, lonely and they like the way humans look, so they often go looking for human mates. G
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* MarsNeedsWomen: The Great Old Ones and Elder Gods are mostly male, lonely and they like the way humans look, so they often go looking for human mates. Gmates to produce offspring that will look human.
* WifeHusbandry: Ithaqua had been kidnapping humans and making them reproduce so that eventually there'll be a girl beautiful enough for him to take and mate with. One time he did that he got a tribe of [[BrainlessBeauty beautiful idiots]] from too much selective inbreeding. The next time he lucked out and got some new people to start breeding, resulting in his latest would-be mate, Moreen.
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* FogOfAges: TheFogOfAges: The reason why the Elder Gods needed Titus Crowe. The Great Old Ones are coming back, but the Elder Gods forgot what they did the first time they defeated the Great Old Ones and accounts on account of what happened had long.the war happening so long ago.
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* ForgotAboutHisPowers: FogOfAges: The reason why the Elder Gods needed Titus Crowe. The Great Old Ones are coming back, but the Elder Gods forgot what they did the first time they defeated the Great Old Ones and accounts of what happened had long.
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* {{Cyborg}}: The Elder Gods make Titus into one of these, which works out well for him since he gains a much prolonged life as a result.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Tianna the Girl Goddess is a descendant of Kthanid.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Chthonians and their offspring are treated as this in the story despite later discoveries that the Elder Gods are just the "good" members of the Cthulhu Cycle.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Chthonians Cthonians and their offspring are treated as this in the story despite later discoveries that the Elder Gods are just the "good" members of the Cthulhu Cycle.Cycle.
* AndIMustScream: The Cthonians [[spoiler: extract Amery Wendy-Smith's brain]] and install it in an unkillable "body" of pliable black goo, then spend ''decades'' draining him of information about humanity.
* AndIMustScream: The Cthonians [[spoiler: extract Amery Wendy-Smith's brain]] and install it in an unkillable "body" of pliable black goo, then spend ''decades'' draining him of information about humanity.
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* BigBad: Shudde M'ell, the Great Old One MonsterLord of the Chthonians.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The primary method for which the Chthonians attack their enemies. [[RocksFallEveryoneDies The other method being earthquakes.]]
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* BigBad: Shudde M'ell, the Great Old One MonsterLord of the Chthonians.Cthonians.
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* MonsterLord: Shudde M'ell is the ruler of the Chthonians, their ancestor, and a gigantic mile-long member of their race.
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** One example is five psychics who drive themselves brain dead soothing Sleeping Cthulhu's mind when he threatens to destroy the world.
** The Great Old Ones are truly immortal so they can only be imprisoned, not killed. [[spoiler: Which the Foundation finds out to it's horror when they try to kill Shubb-Miell]]
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** One example is five psychics who drive themselves brain dead brain-dead soothing Sleeping Cthulhu's mind when he threatens to destroy the world.
** The Great Old Ones are truly immortal so they can only be imprisoned, not killed. [[spoiler: Which the Foundation finds out toit's its horror when they try to kill Shubb-Miell]]Shudde-M'ell]]
** The Great Old Ones are truly immortal so they can only be imprisoned, not killed. [[spoiler: Which the Foundation finds out to
* GiganticAdultsTinyBabies: The witness to the hatching of some newborn Cthonians describes them as being the size of a walnut. Adults never stop growing, such that Shudde M'ell, largest and eldest of their species, is ''a mile long''.
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* MonsterLord: Sudde Shudde M'ell is the ruler of the Chthonians, their ancestor, and a gigantic mile-long member of their race.race.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Noting that Star Stones are ways to block evil spirits (Lovecraftian monsters), a bunch of shamans dug them up in an area of Africa, unwittingly freeing Shudde M'ell and his evil species.
* NoSell: The Sea Shoggoth can't harm the heroes as long as they have a star stone.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Noting that Star Stones are ways to block evil spirits (Lovecraftian monsters), a bunch of shamans dug them up in an area of Africa, unwittingly freeing Shudde M'ell and his evil species.
* NoSell: The Sea Shoggoth can't harm the heroes as long as they have a star stone.
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* NoSell: The Sea Shoggoth can't harm the heroes as long as they have a star stone.
* NoSell: The Sea Shoggoth can't harm the heroes as long as they have a star stone.
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The Titus Crow series is a group of seven horror fiction books published throughout the 1970s by Creator/BrianLumley. The books are based on Creator/HPLovecraft's Franchise/CthulhuMythos.
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* {{Homage}}: Lumley has the heroes plane swept up [[Literature/TheWizardOfOz to an enchanted new world with a tornado.]]
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* BenevolentPrecursors: The Elder Gods fulfill this role in this version of the Cthulhu Mythos.
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* AmazonsWantHercules: Armandra is attracted to Hank because of his ability to kick ass.
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* AmazonsWantHercules: AllAmazonsWantHercules: Armandra is attracted to Hank because of his ability to kick ass.
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* AmazonsWantHercules: Armandra is attracted to Hank because of his ability to kick ass.
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: ''Spawn of the Winds'' stars Texan Silberhutte in a PlanetaryRomance against the Great Old One Ithaqua.
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: ''Spawn of the Winds'' stars Texan Silberhutte in a PlanetaryRomance against the Great Old One Ithaqua.
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* {{Homage}}: Lumley has theWinds'' stars Texan Silberhutte in heroes plane swept up [[Literature/TheWizardOfOz to an enchanted new world with a PlanetaryRomance against the Great Old One Ithaqua.tornado.]]
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* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Armandra is Ithaqua's rebellious daughter. Notably, she was already in open rebellion against her father before meeting Hank.
* MagicalNativeAmerican: Inverted for once as the Native Americans are all dealing with magical white people.
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* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: How Elysia appears. It's a place halfway between Fantasia, heaven, and a 70s album cover.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Chthonians and their offspring are treated as this in the story despite later discoveries the Elder Gods are just the "good" members of the Cthulhu Cycle.
* BigBad: Shudde M'ell, the Great Old One MonsterLord of the Chthonians.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The primary method for which the Chthonians attack their enemies. [[RocksFallEveryoneDies The other method being earthquakes.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The primary method for which the Chthonians attack their enemies. [[RocksFallEveryoneDies The other method being earthquakes.]]
* DoingInTheWizard: Titus Crow and Henri decide that all magic in the world is actually just PsychicPowers and misunderstood Elder God science.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Peasley and the Wilmarth Foundation have been fighting the Mythos far longer than Titus and Henri.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Titus Crow and Henri have this sort of relationship with no sign of female companionship.
* MonsterLord: Sudde M'ell is the ruler of the Chthonians, their ancestor, and a gigantic mile-long member of their race.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The majority of the war against the Chthonians is handled via correspondence.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Noting that Star Stones are ways to block evil spirits (Lovecraftian monsters), a bunch of shamans dug them up in an area of Africa which unwittingly freed Shudde M'ell and his evil species.
* NoSell: The Sea Shoggoth can't harm the heroes as long as they have a star stone.
* ProperlyParanoid: Seisomographs, daily magic potions, ritual exorcisms, and a houseboat are all methods used against the Chthonians. They're barely enough.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Peasley and the Wilmarth Foundation have been fighting the Mythos far longer than Titus and Henri.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Titus Crow and Henri have this sort of relationship with no sign of female companionship.
* MonsterLord: Sudde M'ell is the ruler of the Chthonians, their ancestor, and a gigantic mile-long member of their race.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The majority of the war against the Chthonians is handled via correspondence.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Noting that Star Stones are ways to block evil spirits (Lovecraftian monsters), a bunch of shamans dug them up in an area of Africa which unwittingly freed Shudde M'ell and his evil species.
* NoSell: The Sea Shoggoth can't harm the heroes as long as they have a star stone.
* ProperlyParanoid: Seisomographs, daily magic potions, ritual exorcisms, and a houseboat are all methods used against the Chthonians. They're barely enough.
* {{Cyborg}}: The Elder Gods make Titus into one of these, which works out well for him since he gains a much prolonged life as a result.
* GoodCounterpart: Kthanid and the other Elder Gods turn out to be these for the CCD.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Tianna the Girl Goddess is a descendant of Kthanid.
* GoodCounterpart: Kthanid and the other Elder Gods turn out to be these for the CCD.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Tianna the Girl Goddess is a descendant of Kthanid.
* MeaningfulName: Elysia is a physical heaven or Elysium for Titus.
* PassingTheTorch: Titus Crow gives up the Clock of Dreams and his cloak to Henri in hopes of inspiring him to be an even better hero than himself.
* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: Kthanid is apparently so benevolent that Titus Crow finds him somewhat adorable despite the fact he's the same race as Cthulhu.
* PassingTheTorch: Titus Crow gives up the Clock of Dreams and his cloak to Henri in hopes of inspiring him to be an even better hero than himself.
* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: Kthanid is apparently so benevolent that Titus Crow finds him somewhat adorable despite the fact he's the same race as Cthulhu.
* PlanetaryRomance: The entire book is an extended homage to the ''Literature/WarlordOfMars'' books by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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* BadassInDistress: Henri has to go to the Dreamlands in order to rescue Titus Crow and his bride.
* BigBad: Nyarlathotep plays the role of the central villain this time around.
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* BadassInDistress: Henri has to go to the Dreamlands in order to rescue Titus Crow and his bride.
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* AffablyEvil: Exior the Sorcerer is an awful-awful human being but never anything but friendly to our heroes.
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*AffablyEvil: Exior AlwaysChaoticEvil: All of the Sorcerer is an awful-awful human being but never anything but friendly to our heroes.
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* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: The Wilmarth Foundation's fight takes a heavy toll. [[spoiler: By the end of the first novel, Crow and De Marigny almost die when Crow's house is destroyed.]]
** One example is five psychics who drive themselves brain dead soothing Sleeping Cthulhu's mind when he threatens to destroy the world.
** The Great Old Ones are truly immortal so they can only be imprisoned, not killed. [[spoiler: Which the Foundation finds out to it's horror when they try to kill Shubb-Miell]]
** [[spoiler: Miskatonic University is destroyed in a flood in revenge for their interference in the second book.]]
** One example is five psychics who drive themselves brain dead soothing Sleeping Cthulhu's mind when he threatens to destroy the world.
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* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Averted in the short stories. Prior to the events of ''The Burrowers Beneath'', Crow has no direct contact with the Mythos, save for human sorcerers or agents of the Great Old Ones.
** Played straight when an organization of human psychic researchers are able to get into a psychic battle with the minds of the Great Old Ones, and not only hold their own against them, but also ''tire them out''.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Very common. Unusually, the main ones are extremely attractive.
* TheHero: Titus Crow is this for the first few novels.
** Later becomes Henri de Marginy.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Peasley in the second book.]]
* LaResistance: The People of the Plateau are this against Ithaqua.
** The Wilmarth Foundation is this for the Cthulhu Cycle as a whole.
* TheHero: Titus Crow is this for the first few novels.
** Later becomes Henri de Marginy.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Peasley in the second book.]]
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Very common. Unusually, for a Mythos series, the main ones are extremely attractive.
* TheHero: Titus Crow is this for the first few novels.
** Later becomes Henri de Marginy.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Peasley in the second book.]]
* LaResistance: The People of the Plateau are this against Ithaqua.
** The Wilmarth Foundation is this for the Cthulhu Cycle as a whole.attractive.
* TheHero: Titus Crow is this for the first few novels.
** Later becomes Henri de Marginy.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Peasley in the second book.]]
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*TheWatson: Henri-Laurent de ApocalypticLog: A number of these form the basis for the story.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: The Wilmarth Foundation's fight takes a heavy toll. [[spoiler: By the end of the first novel, Crow and De Marignyserves as this almost die when Crow's house is destroyed.]]
** One example is five psychics who drive themselves brain dead soothing Sleeping Cthulhu's mind when he threatens toTitus Crow. He eventually becomes destroy the lead protagonist.world.
** The Great Old Ones are truly immortal so they can only be imprisoned, not killed. [[spoiler: Which the Foundation finds out to it's horror when they try to kill Shubb-Miell]]
* ContinuityNod: To ''The Shadow over Innsmouth'' in the discussion of the Innsmouth Raid.
* ContinuityPorn: Every single Lovecraft story he could even vaguely reference was done so here. This includes many obscure works which were done as collaborations as well as the mythology of August Derleth.
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* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: The Wilmarth Foundation's fight takes a heavy toll. [[spoiler: By the end of the first novel, Crow and De Marigny
** One example is five psychics who drive themselves brain dead soothing Sleeping Cthulhu's mind when he threatens to
** The Great Old Ones are truly immortal so they can only be imprisoned, not killed. [[spoiler: Which the Foundation finds out to it's horror when they try to kill Shubb-Miell]]
* ContinuityNod: To ''The Shadow over Innsmouth'' in the discussion of the Innsmouth Raid.
* ContinuityPorn: Every single Lovecraft story he could even vaguely reference was done so here. This includes many obscure works which were done as collaborations as well as the mythology of August Derleth.
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* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: Miskatonic University is destroyed in a flood in revenge for their interference]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Peasley meets his end at the hands of the Great Old Ones in retaliation for his role in ''The Burrowers Beneath.'']]
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* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: ''Spawn of the Winds'' stars Texan Silberhutte in a PlanetaryRomance against the Great Old One Ithaqua.
* LaResistance: The People of the Plateau are this against Ithaqua.
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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Henri's future girlfriend Moreen.
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* AffablyEvil: Exior the Sorcerer is an awful-awful human being but never anything but friendly to our heroes.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Elysia is destroyed and the Elder Gods missing but the Great Old Ones are bound for another cycle which will probably last millions if not billions of years.]]
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In a departure from many Cthulhu Mythos stories, Lumley's characters are not [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu helpless victims of unimaginable forces which can drive humans mad by merely manifesting themselves.themselves]]. Instead, Titus Crow, his friend Henri-Laurent de Marigny, and other Lumley characters confront Cthulhu's minions in a series of increasingly large-scale encounters, in which humans, although outmatched, try to fight back. In a letter to the journal Crypt of Cthulhu, Lumley wrote:
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Crow has been known to survive any number of encounters with monsters, although he may not always be able to defeat the creatures. For instance, he may fall unconscious upon running into a monster that kills anything that moves. Eventually, his series falls to his sidekick Henri-Laurent de Marigny when [[spoiler: he AscendsToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.]]
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Crow has been known to survive any number of encounters with monsters, [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu although he may not always be able to defeat the creatures.creatures]]. For instance, he may fall unconscious upon running into a monster that kills anything that moves. Eventually, his series falls to his sidekick Henri-Laurent de Marigny when [[spoiler: he AscendsToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.]]
The books were released in the 1970s but have recently been re-released in audiobook form as narrated by SimonVance.
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The titular character is an occult investigator based loosely on SherlockHolmes who, accompanied by TheWatson Henri-Laurent de Marigny, investigates the Cthulhu Mythos on behalf of the Wilmarth Foundation and later the Elder Gods. The series is notable for switching from Titus Crow as a protagonist fairly early to Henri and later Hank Silberhutte.
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The titular character is an occult investigator based (based loosely on SherlockHolmes SherlockHolmes) who, accompanied by TheWatson [[TheWatson Henri-Laurent de Marigny, Marigny]], investigates the Cthulhu Mythos on behalf of the Wilmarth Foundation and later the Elder Gods. The series is notable for [[PassingTheTorch switching from Titus Crow as a protagonist fairly early to Henri Henri]] and later [[TheHero Hank Silberhutte.
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* AffablyEvil: Exior the Sorcerer is an awful-awful human being but never anything but friendly to our heroes.
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: ''Spawn of the Winds'' stars Texan Silberhutte in a PlanetaryRomance against the Great Old One Ithaqua.
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** Randolph Carter morphs from being a powerful dreamer into ''John'' Carter, Warlord of Mars except in the Dreamlands.
*** Hank Silberhutte is a more subdued {{Expy}} for John Carter.
** David Hero and Eldin the Wanderer are Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Sword and Sorcery heroes of the Dreamlands.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Henri'sbride-to-be.future girlfriend Moreen.
*** Hank Silberhutte is a more subdued {{Expy}} for John Carter.
** David Hero and Eldin the Wanderer are Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Sword and Sorcery heroes of the Dreamlands.
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* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: A lot of them. One of them is the ultra-hot wind sorceress daughter of a Great Old One (who ISN'T a deformed horror like Lovecraft would state such unions produce but quite the opposite).
** The 'girl goddess' Tianna is another example.
** The 'girl goddess' Tianna is another example.
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* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: A lot of them. One of them is the ultra-hot wind sorceress daughter of a Great Old One (who ISN'T a deformed horror like Lovecraft would state such unions produce but quite the opposite).
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** The 'girl goddess' Tianna is another example. She's the niece of Cthulhu.
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** Later becomes Henri de Marginy.
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* LaResistance: Against Ithaqua.The People of the Plateau are this against Ithaqua.
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Titus Crow is the main character in the eponymous series of horror fiction books by Creator/BrianLumley. The books are based on Creator/HPLovecraft's CthulhuMythos.
In a departure from many Cthulhu Mythos stories, Lumley's characters are not helpless victims of unimaginable forces which can drive humans mad by merely manifesting themselves. Instead, Titus Crow, his friend Henri-Laurent de Marigny, and other Lumley characters confront Cthulhu's minions in a series of increasingly large-scale encounters, in which humans, although outmatched, try to fight back. In a letter to the journal Crypt of Cthulhu,
Lumley wrote:
'' "I have trouble relating to people who faint at the hint of a bad smell. A meep or glibber doesn't cut it with me. (I love meeps and glibbers, don't get me wrong, but I go looking for what made them!) That's the main difference between my stories...and HPL's. My guys fight back. Also, they like to have a laugh along the way."''
Crow has been known to survive any number of encounters with monsters, although he may not always be able to defeat the creatures. For instance, he may fall unconscious upon running into a monster that kills anything that moves. Eventually, his series falls to his sidekick Henri-Laurent de Marigny when [[spoiler: he AscendsToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.]]
[[folder:Novels and collections by Brian Lumley]]
* ''The Burrowers Beneath'' (1974)
* ''The Transition of Titus Crow'' (1975)
* ''The Clock of Dreams'' (1978)
* ''Spawn of the Winds '' (1978)
* ''In the Moons of Borea '' (1979)
* ''The Compleat Crow '' (1987). Omnibus collection, which collected the various short stories featuring Crow.
** "An Item of Supporting Evidence" (1970)
** "Billy's Oak" (1970)
** "The Caller of the Black" (1971)
** "De Marigny's Clock" (1971)
** "The Mirror of Nitocris" (1971)
** "Darghud's Doll" (1977)
** "The Viking's Stone" (1977)
** "Name and Number" (1982)
** "The Black Recalled" (1983)
** "Lord of the Worms" (1983)
* ''Elysia'' (1989). Crossover with the '' Dreamlands'' and ''Primal Land'', two other series by Lumley.
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Not to be confused with the common object of [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd the AVGN's]] [[BerserkButton wrath.]]
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These books contain the following tropes:
* ApocalypticLog: Used extensively in ''The Burrowers Beneath.''
* AncientTradition: Not much of an ancient one but the Wilmarth Foundation was founded after the events of ''The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward.''
* ArtifactOfDoom: Inverted with the Clock of Dreams. It's an Artifact of Doom which turns out to be the heroes' best weapon against the Great Old Ones.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: Titus Crow goes to live on Elysia with his bride for all eternity.]]
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Horned Men.
** The Chthonians too.
* BadassBookworm: Titus and Henri. The entire Wilmarth Foundation. All of them are extremely well-learned occult scholars.
* BigBad: Cthulhu. Notable for the fact that Cthulhu is presented as the Lord of All Great Old Ones rather than just his race.
** More often, the reigning evil doer in the Titus Crow novels is Ithaqua.
* BigGood: Kthanid is pretty much the universe's guardian of nobility and justice, being a hyper-friendly Cthulhu. No, seriously.
** The Wilmarth Foundation's head holds this role before Kthanid's appearance.
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Like Derleth, Lumley's Great Old Ones are a great deal more human than Lovecraft intended. They're all malevolent jerkasses opposed by the saintly Elder Gods.
** Lumley mixes it up a bit by having "good" examples of the Great Old Ones' races too.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: The Wilmarth Foundation's fight takes a heavy toll. [[spoiler: By the end of the first novel, Crow and De Marigny almost die when Crow's house is destroyed.]]
** One example is five psychics who drive themselves brain dead soothing Sleeping Cthulhu's mind when he threatens to destroy the world.
** The Great Old Ones are truly immortal so they can only be imprisoned, not killed. [[spoiler: Which the Foundation finds out to it's horror when they try to kill Shubb-Miell]]
** [[spoiler: Miskatonic University is destroyed in a flood in revenge for their interference in the second book.]]
* CaptainErsatz: Early on Titus Crow acquires a time clock just about the size of a coffin (or maybe a police telephone box) that allows him to [[TimeAndRelativeDimensionsInSpace travel anywhere in time and space]], controlled by his thoughts, and is BiggerOnTheInside. He crashes it, dies and then is given a [[EmergencyTransformation new, ageless body]] by an advanced race of robotic life (you could almost say he ''regenerated''). He returns home in the time clock and tells all of this to a ''companion''. He then goes on to have adventures in time and space, combating evil aliens and gods. [[Series/DoctorWho Does this remind you of someone?]]
* ContinuityPorn: ''The Burrowers Beneath'' is an example of this. Every single Lovecraft story he could even vaguely reference was done so.
* DecoyProtagonist: Titus Crow is actually something of an example of this as he is rapidly replaced by Henri-Lauren de Marigny.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Averted in the short stories. Prior to the events of ''The Burrowers Beneath'', Crow has no direct contact with the Mythos, save for human sorcerers or agents of the Great Old Ones.
** Played straight when an organization of human psychic researchers are able to get into a psychic battle with the minds of the Great Old Ones, and not only hold their own against them, but also ''tire them out''.
* {{Expy}}: A lot of them, basically it's every Pulp Hero ever made teaming up against the Mythos.
** Titus Crow himself seems halfway between Abraham Van Helsing, Sherlock Holmes, and ''Series/DoctorWho'''s Doctor. [[spoiler: He even has a Tardis equivalent.]]
** Henri-Laurent de Marigny is later [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]] himself, though he starts off as something equivalent to Watson.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Henri's bride-to-be.
* GoodCounterpart: Kthanid is essentially a good (?!) Cthulhu. Even more than that, he's actually Cthulhu's brother (?!?!?!).
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: A lot of them. One of them is the ultra-hot wind sorceress daughter of a Great Old One (who ISN'T a deformed horror like Lovecraft would state such unions produce but quite the opposite).
** The 'girl goddess' Tianna is another example.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Very common. Unusually, the main ones are extremely attractive.
* TheHero: Titus Crow.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Peasley in the second book.]]
* LaResistance: Against Ithaqua.
* LighterAndSofter: Odd for a Brian Lumley work, but the humans are remarkably well off despite living in the Mythos-run universe.
* LovecraftLite: One of the big examples of this.
* MayDecemberRomance: How relationships with Dream people go on the humans side, reversed with Elysians.
* OccultDetective: Titus Crow, being a scholar of the mystical arts. Henri-Laurent de Marigny is another.
** All of the heroes have some degree of this.
* PsychicPowers: Almost all of the protagonists have this.
* {{Retcon}}: Azathoth is the Big Bang and not a monster. Nyarlathotep doesn't exist save as a telepathic network between the Great Old Ones. Shub-Niggurath is just the Great Old Ones ability to have offspring with anything.
* ShoutOut: Natural for a Mythos work, Lumley includes references to other Mythos tales, including to fellow British Mythos author Ramsey Campbell.
* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: By ''The Burrowers Beneath'', Crow deduces that the Great Old Ones [=/=] Elder Gods are really advanced aliens, and their “magic” simply a higher science.
* TheWatson: Henri-Laurent de Marigny serves as this to Titus Crow. He eventually becomes the lead protagonist.
* WeaksauceWeakness: The Chthonians are vulnerable to water.
* WhoYouGonnaCall: [[{{NGO}} The Wilmarth Foundation]], a secret society devoted to the destruction of the Cthulhu Cycle.
* WouldNotHitAGirl: Henri-Laurent has a huge case of this.
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In a departure from many Cthulhu Mythos stories, Lumley's characters are not helpless victims of unimaginable forces which can drive humans mad by merely manifesting themselves. Instead, Titus Crow, his friend Henri-Laurent de Marigny, and other Lumley characters confront Cthulhu's minions in a series of increasingly large-scale encounters, in which humans, although outmatched, try to fight back. In a letter to the journal Crypt of Cthulhu,
Lumley wrote:
'' "I have trouble relating to people who faint at the hint of a bad smell. A meep or glibber doesn't cut it with me. (I love meeps and glibbers, don't get me wrong, but I go looking for what made them!) That's the main difference between my stories...and HPL's. My guys fight back. Also, they like to have a laugh along the way."''
Crow has been known to survive any number of encounters with monsters, although he may not always be able to defeat the creatures. For instance, he may fall unconscious upon running into a monster that kills anything that moves. Eventually, his series falls to his sidekick Henri-Laurent de Marigny when [[spoiler: he AscendsToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.]]
[[folder:Novels and collections by Brian Lumley]]
* ''The Burrowers Beneath'' (1974)
* ''The Transition of Titus Crow'' (1975)
* ''The Clock of Dreams'' (1978)
* ''Spawn of the Winds '' (1978)
* ''In the Moons of Borea '' (1979)
* ''The Compleat Crow '' (1987). Omnibus collection, which collected the various short stories featuring Crow.
** "An Item of Supporting Evidence" (1970)
** "Billy's Oak" (1970)
** "The Caller of the Black" (1971)
** "De Marigny's Clock" (1971)
** "The Mirror of Nitocris" (1971)
** "Darghud's Doll" (1977)
** "The Viking's Stone" (1977)
** "Name and Number" (1982)
** "The Black Recalled" (1983)
** "Lord of the Worms" (1983)
* ''Elysia'' (1989). Crossover with the '' Dreamlands'' and ''Primal Land'', two other series by Lumley.
[[/folder]]
Not to be confused with the common object of [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd the AVGN's]] [[BerserkButton wrath.]]
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These books contain the following tropes:
* ApocalypticLog: Used extensively in ''The Burrowers Beneath.''
* AncientTradition: Not much of an ancient one but the Wilmarth Foundation was founded after the events of ''The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward.''
* ArtifactOfDoom: Inverted with the Clock of Dreams. It's an Artifact of Doom which turns out to be the heroes' best weapon against the Great Old Ones.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: Titus Crow goes to live on Elysia with his bride for all eternity.]]
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Horned Men.
** The Chthonians too.
* BadassBookworm: Titus and Henri. The entire Wilmarth Foundation. All of them are extremely well-learned occult scholars.
* BigBad: Cthulhu. Notable for the fact that Cthulhu is presented as the Lord of All Great Old Ones rather than just his race.
** More often, the reigning evil doer in the Titus Crow novels is Ithaqua.
* BigGood: Kthanid is pretty much the universe's guardian of nobility and justice, being a hyper-friendly Cthulhu. No, seriously.
** The Wilmarth Foundation's head holds this role before Kthanid's appearance.
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Like Derleth, Lumley's Great Old Ones are a great deal more human than Lovecraft intended. They're all malevolent jerkasses opposed by the saintly Elder Gods.
** Lumley mixes it up a bit by having "good" examples of the Great Old Ones' races too.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: The Wilmarth Foundation's fight takes a heavy toll. [[spoiler: By the end of the first novel, Crow and De Marigny almost die when Crow's house is destroyed.]]
** One example is five psychics who drive themselves brain dead soothing Sleeping Cthulhu's mind when he threatens to destroy the world.
** The Great Old Ones are truly immortal so they can only be imprisoned, not killed. [[spoiler: Which the Foundation finds out to it's horror when they try to kill Shubb-Miell]]
** [[spoiler: Miskatonic University is destroyed in a flood in revenge for their interference in the second book.]]
* CaptainErsatz: Early on Titus Crow acquires a time clock just about the size of a coffin (or maybe a police telephone box) that allows him to [[TimeAndRelativeDimensionsInSpace travel anywhere in time and space]], controlled by his thoughts, and is BiggerOnTheInside. He crashes it, dies and then is given a [[EmergencyTransformation new, ageless body]] by an advanced race of robotic life (you could almost say he ''regenerated''). He returns home in the time clock and tells all of this to a ''companion''. He then goes on to have adventures in time and space, combating evil aliens and gods. [[Series/DoctorWho Does this remind you of someone?]]
* ContinuityPorn: ''The Burrowers Beneath'' is an example of this. Every single Lovecraft story he could even vaguely reference was done so.
* DecoyProtagonist: Titus Crow is actually something of an example of this as he is rapidly replaced by Henri-Lauren de Marigny.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Averted in the short stories. Prior to the events of ''The Burrowers Beneath'', Crow has no direct contact with the Mythos, save for human sorcerers or agents of the Great Old Ones.
** Played straight when an organization of human psychic researchers are able to get into a psychic battle with the minds of the Great Old Ones, and not only hold their own against them, but also ''tire them out''.
* {{Expy}}: A lot of them, basically it's every Pulp Hero ever made teaming up against the Mythos.
** Titus Crow himself seems halfway between Abraham Van Helsing, Sherlock Holmes, and ''Series/DoctorWho'''s Doctor. [[spoiler: He even has a Tardis equivalent.]]
** Henri-Laurent de Marigny is later [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]] himself, though he starts off as something equivalent to Watson.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Henri's bride-to-be.
* GoodCounterpart: Kthanid is essentially a good (?!) Cthulhu. Even more than that, he's actually Cthulhu's brother (?!?!?!).
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: A lot of them. One of them is the ultra-hot wind sorceress daughter of a Great Old One (who ISN'T a deformed horror like Lovecraft would state such unions produce but quite the opposite).
** The 'girl goddess' Tianna is another example.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Very common. Unusually, the main ones are extremely attractive.
* TheHero: Titus Crow.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Peasley in the second book.]]
* LaResistance: Against Ithaqua.
* LighterAndSofter: Odd for a Brian Lumley work, but the humans are remarkably well off despite living in the Mythos-run universe.
* LovecraftLite: One of the big examples of this.
* MayDecemberRomance: How relationships with Dream people go on the humans side, reversed with Elysians.
* OccultDetective: Titus Crow, being a scholar of the mystical arts. Henri-Laurent de Marigny is another.
** All of the heroes have some degree of this.
* PsychicPowers: Almost all of the protagonists have this.
* {{Retcon}}: Azathoth is the Big Bang and not a monster. Nyarlathotep doesn't exist save as a telepathic network between the Great Old Ones. Shub-Niggurath is just the Great Old Ones ability to have offspring with anything.
* ShoutOut: Natural for a Mythos work, Lumley includes references to other Mythos tales, including to fellow British Mythos author Ramsey Campbell.
* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: By ''The Burrowers Beneath'', Crow deduces that the Great Old Ones [=/=] Elder Gods are really advanced aliens, and their “magic” simply a higher science.
* TheWatson: Henri-Laurent de Marigny serves as this to Titus Crow. He eventually becomes the lead protagonist.
* WeaksauceWeakness: The Chthonians are vulnerable to water.
* WhoYouGonnaCall: [[{{NGO}} The Wilmarth Foundation]], a secret society devoted to the destruction of the Cthulhu Cycle.
* WouldNotHitAGirl: Henri-Laurent has a huge case of this.
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