Like Harry, Boris can hear the dead.but only when he is mutilating their corpses. The head of Russia's ESPionage 'firm' is Boris Dragosani. Seeking revenge after his beloved mother is murdered by a psychic-and psychotic-Russian spy, Harry is recruited by Britain's super-secret, psychically-powered spy organization, E-Branch. Mathematician August Mobius, dead for more than a century, teaches Harry how to fold space and time, to travel anywhere and any when. Through Harry, dead composers and writers reach new audiences dead inventors see their creations come to life. The dead have been his friends, his counselors, his inspiration. Since childhood, Harry Keogh has been able to hear and speak to dead people. But Harry is the only person who knows about Thibor Ferenczy, a vampire long buried in the mountains of Romania-still horribly alive, in undeath-and Thibor's insane 'offspring,' Boris Dragosani, who rips information from the souls of the dead in a terrible, ever-lasting form of torture.Eldritch horror meets international espionage as a bloodthirsty vampire attempts to conquer humanity in this first book of a titanic and terrifying trilogy! In Necroscope, Harry is startled to discover that he is not the only person with unusual mental powers-Britain and the Soviet Union both maintain super-secret, psychically-powered espionage organizations. Harry Keogh is the man who can talk to the dead, the man for whom every grave willingly gives up its secrets, the one man who knows how to travel effortlessly through time and space to destroy the vampires that threaten all humanity. And also for all the people who have read more than one mass market copy of the book to tatters. It also includes chapter ornaments by Hugo-Award-Winning artist Bob Eggleton, long identified with Lumley's blood-sucking monsters.Īs a classic, Necroscope rightfully claims a place in the Orb trade paperback list, for scholars of the field and the dedicated Lumley collector.

This new edition of Necroscope uses the author's preferred text and includes a special introduction by Brian Lumley, telling how the Necroscope saga came to be. Nominated for the British Fantasy Award, Necroscope has inspired everything from comic books and graphic novels to sculptures and soundtracks. Millions of copies of Necroscope and its successors are in print in a dozen languages throughout the world.

St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series)Īn instant classic, Brian Lumley's astonishing feat of imagination spawned a universe which Lumley has explored and expanded through more that a baker's dozen of novels and novellas.

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