Product Description

Harry Keogh is a necroscope -- he knows the thoughts of corpses in their graves. Unfortunately for Harry, his talent works both ways. The outer limits of horror are unleashed when Harry Keogh is recruited by the E-Branch (E for ESP) of the British Secret Service to combat his own evil counterpart, the deadly Romanian Boris Dragosani. Long buried in hallowed ground, bound by earth and silver, the master vampire schemes and plots. Trapped in unlife, neither dead nor living, Thibor Ferenczy hungers for freedom and revenge. The vampire's human tool is Boris Dragosani, part of a super-secret Soviet spy agency. Dragosani is an avid pupil, eager to plumb the depthless evil of the vampire's mind. Ferenczy teaches Dragosani the awful skills of the necromancer, gives him the ability to rip secrets from the mind and bodies of the dead. Dragosani works not for Ferenczy's freedom but is in the pay of an ultra-secret Soviet paranormal agency over which he means to gain power for himself with knowledge raped from the dead. His speciality is tearing secrets from the souls of newly dead traitors. His only opponent: Harry Koegh. Like Dragosani, Harry is a necroscope who can speak with the dead.But Harry is a champion of the dead -- and the living. From the Romanian mausoleum where the undead vampire tests the limits of his bonds, the stage is set for the most horrifying, violent supernatural confrontation ever when Harry Keogh is recruited by the British Secret Service to take on Dragosani. To protect Harry, the dead will do anything -- even rise from their graves!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #61239 in Books
• Published on: 1986-06-26
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

Review
'Since reading Lumley's Necroscope series, I know that vampires really do exist.' H.R. Giger 'Like the vampires it so full-bloodedly portrays, Brian Lumley's Necroscope series just gets stronger. His lively mix of action and monstrosity transmutes the base cliche of the vampire and turns it into a wonderfully contemporary bane.' Fear Magazine

About the Author
Brian Lumley is the author of the bestselling Necroscope series of vampire novels. An acknowledged master of Lovecraft-style horror, Brian Lumley has won the British Fantasy Award and been named a Grand Master of Horror. His works have been published in more than a dozen countries and have inspired comic books, role-playing games, and sculpture, and been adapted for television. When not writing, Lumley can often be found spear-fishing in the Greek islands, gambling in Las Vegas, or attending a convention somewhere in the US. Lumley and his wife live in England.

Customer Reviews

An amazing beginning to an amazing saga
I came across this book while I was looking at Brian Lumley's Vampire World Trilogy in a bookshop. I was told by the well clued-in employee there that I should start of reading Necroscope, as Vampire World was just one trilogy of the whole saga.

Being a massive Vampire and horror fan I was amazed at how Lumley manages to combine so many different subject areas into this saga and pull it off. His take on the vampire is on of the most unique I have ever come across, but definitely the most well thought out. The amount of thought that has been put into this series is incredible, with each character described beautifully so you can paint a really detailed mental picture of them (or it).

The book does take a little while to get into before the story starts flowing, but once the main plot is unfolded I can guarantee that you won't be able to put it down. By the end of the book you will feel like you know Harry Keogh like a good friend.

It is simply an amazing beginning to a huge saga spanning around 13 books. I can't read them fast enough!!!!

Truly an original story idea
I have often considered reading Brian Lumley but until now I have always put off buying his books. It always seemed to me that Lumley wrote pure horror (not my favourite) but despite appearances (his book covers) Necrosope is not a simple horror story. I would class this as a paranormal thriller.

Harry Keogh is a very special boy that grows into a talented man. He can speak to the dead and they listen! This makes him a Necroscope, a valuable resource to the British Secret Service. Just imagine, an agent is killed with vital information that the British needs. What do they do? Call Harry!

The book is full of great ideas that I have never read about. There are departments within the Russian and British secret services that use ESP to track nuclear Subs, predict the future, question the dead, kill with the evil eye!

Since reading this story, I have bough every single one of Lumley's books. That's how much I enjoyed this story.

Mark E Cooper

The Necroscope books
What I liked most about the Necroscope range, apart form the fact it is quite possibly the most in depth, imaginitive and atmospheric reading I have ever encountered in this genre, is that Harry Keogh is not one of your "never hit a bad guy when he's down" heroes, but a man with a mean streak himself, who is not above using his rapport with the dead and his incredible powers over space and time to exact appalling revenge on his enemies. This might sound tacky as I have worded it here, but I simply cannot possibly do Brian Lumley justice.