Necroscope
by:
Brian Lumley (author)
The first new Necroscope novel in four years. An ordinary man with extraordinary abilities, Harry Keogh can travel through time and space--and converse with the dead. Through them he learns of the vampire that plagues mankind. The Lost Years tells of Harry's encounter with two warring vampires,...
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The first new Necroscope novel in four years. An ordinary man with extraordinary abilities, Harry Keogh can travel through time and space--and converse with the dead. Through them he learns of the vampire that plagues mankind. The Lost Years tells of Harry's encounter with two warring vampires, as he desperately searches for his missing wife and son.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780765320186 (0765320185)
Publish date: June 10th 2008
Publisher: Orb Books
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Series: Necroscope (#1)
Brian Lumley's Necroscope is not heroic fiction, which I typically focus on. It is very entertaining and has connections to Weird Sword & Sorcery adventure which led me to read it: 1) Heroes of Dreams & Khash series: I discovered Lumley’s writing via his Weird Sword & Sorcery. Vintage dark fantasy...
There’s a lot going on in this one. It is much more than the standard blood sucker tale that I thought it was going to be. Brian Lumley pens a unique take on the vampire mythos and adds some very cool paranormal esponiage elements as well. His characterizations were very well drawn and while the pac...
Man, do I remember this book. I discovered horror when I was in high school, thanks to Stephen King, and the Necroscope books always caught my eye whenever I browsed the bookstore, enough so that I have no idea why I never read it. I may have appreciated this novel more had I read it back in high ...