Tumithak of the Corridors

"Far and away the best and most exciting story I had ever read up to that time. I found the characters human and the hero all the more admirable because because he could feel fear. I found the plot exciting and a deep humanity in the sentence 'Tumithak had to learn that in no matter what nation or age one finds oneself, he will find gentleness, if he looks, as well as savagery." Isaac Asimov "The writings of H.P. Lovecraft had been the inspiration for my father's Tumithak stories. There is to some extent a similar theme in many of Lovecraft's stories, especially in 'the Color Out of Space' to the world of Tumithak, where a man's world has decayed and given way to beings from space." Jim Tanner

"Untold ages ago a man was driven underground by the invading Shelks, there to live like rats in the endless corridors...until the coming of Tumithak. A classic from the Golden Age of Fantasy." John O'Neill, Black Gate Magazine