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For millennia men have strutted their pride over the fragile surface of the Earth, arrogantly proclaiming themselves masters of creation. But now their feeble investigations have disturbed the planet's original rulers far beneath the globe's crust.

©1974 Brian Lumley (P)2016 David N. Wilson Fantasy Fiction Ghosts Horror Scary Haunted Paranormal
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A wonderful intro. to Lumley, the Cthulhu Mythos etc. It is far superior to his Dreamlands series, and not so dated. A must for all Mythos fans!

wonderful intro. to Lumley, the Cthulhu Mythos etc

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Simon Vance's naration is eminently appropriate to the material. Gripping listen, finished as quick as I could and will get the others in the series.

I have always enjoyed HP Lovecraft and Brian Lumley carries on his tradition admirably.

Lumley has mastered Cthulhu literature

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A good, if somewhat rambling, tale of Lovecraftian horror. There's no single story but a series of narratives that chronicle the Titus Crow's first encounters with the 'burrowers' (together with his friend Henri-Laurent de Marigny) and his later adventures allied with the New England 'Wilmarth Foundation'. I enjoyed it enough to get the second book in the series.

Fantastic narration by Simon Vance. Very impressive.

Decent Lovecraftian story

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The Burrowers Beneath is the fantastic opening chapter in the Titus Crow series. This story finds Crow and his companion Henri-Laurent de Marigny battling an ancient evil that has been lurking beneath the earth for centuries. The story is told via a series of letters, articles and diary entries.
Simon Vance provides a classy and compelling narration. Each character is clearly differentiated and his work on regional UK accents is superb.
Another absolute gem from the guys at Crossroad Press.
Highly recommended.

Brilliant Beginning to an Epic Series

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This is by far the best book I have read in the entire Cthulhu Mythos canon - by Lovecraft or anyone else, and the superb narration by Simon Vance makes it all the more enthralling. The fact this is being typed as I listen for the third time bears testament to that, and the more I hear the more I want to read on.

Written very much in the Lovecraft vein, but thankfully with far less archaic purple prose or swooning male heroes, this thrilling cosmic horror novel was right up my street. Being the first in the Titus Crowe series, it is written in epistolary fashion, leading off with a series of exchanges between Titus and others, before continuing into Henri de-Marigny's notebooks. Marigny is very much the Watson to Crowe's Holmes (not surprisingly, Vance has also narrated several Sherlock Holmes books) and I found the story equally captivating.

The story regards the mysterious disappearance of a noted professor and his "weird writer"nephew following strange tremors which began after said professor unearths mysterious buried globes and brings them home. The globes are actually eggs, belonging to monstrous Cthonian monsters who, not surprisingly, are a bit upset and burrow their way to the surface doing nasty things to any humans they meet - such as removing a living brain and implanting it into a globulous "thing" which then visits Crowe and Henri before dissolving into yuk. Simon Vance deserves his fifth star for this scene alone, a masterly yet poignant performance.

As the first in a series, this book introduced people and organisations which will become regulars in future stories, and I'm already looking forward to book 2. One big query - the monsters are seemingly allergic to water, which doesn't explain why one of the most exciting passages (the attempted sinking of Henri's river boat by a Cthonian) almost succeeds, the monster blithely striking out for the open sea having menacingly attacked them with all tentacles seemingly oblivious to corrosion. Maybe this repulsion doesn't apply to "big poppa"Shudde M'Ell, the leader and the largest of the Burrowers who I'm assuming this was? I'll have to read again, as I'm pretty sure Lumley wouldn't have overlooked this in light of how tightly the rest of the book is written.

PLENTY TO CROWE ABOUT!

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