by Brian Lumley
When Harry saw what he was up against with Janos, and after the vampire had taken Harry’s woman for his own, he knew he must somehow regain his deadspeak and his command over the mysterious Möbius Continuum. Without these powers … he just wouldn’t stand a chance.
The ghost of Faethor Ferenczy, whose place was the crumbling, deserted, overgrown ruins of a house close to Ploiesti in Romania, contacted Harry and offered to help. The damage done to Harry’s mind was the work of The Dweller, Harry Jr., a vampire with hugely enhanced mentalist powers. If Harry would not allow Faethor’s spirit into his mind, perhaps that “father” of vampires would remove the blockage and unlock the closed-off regions. Harry did not like the idea (to allow a vampire, this vampire into his mind?) and knew it was an experiment fraught with the most terrifying dangers, but beggars can’t be choosers.
As to why Faethor should want to help: he could not bear the thought of his bloodson, Janos, up and about in the world while he was nothing but a fading memory, shunned even by the dead. He wanted Janos put down again, indeed desired to be the instrument of that termination. And Harry Keogh was the only one who could do it. At least, this was the explanation which Faethor offered to Harry …
In Romania, Harry slept overnight in the ruins of Faethor’s last refuge, and while he slept the father of vampires entered his mind and reopened certain mental “doors” which Harry Jr. had closed there. Waking up, Harry discovered his deadspeak returned to him. Now he could contact the long-dead mathematician Möbius and have him enter his mind, hopefully to give him back his numeracy and mastery of the so-called Möbius Continuum. But Faethor had lied; once inside Harry’s mind the vampire would not leave it; the Necroscope now had an unwelcome tenant.
Finally, at Janos’ castle in the Zarandului Mountains of Transylvania, Harry recovered his powers in full, returned Janos to dust, and committed the spirit of Faethor to an eternity of emptiness and utter loneliness in the infinite future time-streams of the Möbius Continuum.
But his victory was not without cost.
Strange urges are part of Harry now, and stranger hungers. His life-thread unwinds as before into the unending future of Möbius time. Except … where once that life-thread was pure blue, as are the threads of all entirely human beings, now it is tinged with red!
About the Author
BRIAN LUMLEY has been a full-time writer since 1980, when he left the British army. His twenty-two year army career included a stint as Quartermaster of Edinburgh Castle, which he drew on when writing The House of Doors and Deadspawn, the fifth book in the Necroscope series.
Lumley’s Necroscope series—Necroscope, Vamphyri!, The Source, Deadspeak, and Deadspawn—demonstrates his unique ability to combine horror, thriller, and science fiction themes, an ability demonstrated as well in the upcoming Psychomech series. In addition to these books, Lumley has written several novels featuring Titus Crow and has penned over 100 short stories, which have often been selected for inclusion in The Year’s Best Horror.
Brian Lumley has won the British Fantasy Award for a short story, “Fruiting Bodies,” the title story in an upcoming collection of his short fiction. The first three Necroscope books are being adapted for comic book and graphic novel publication.
Lumley has traveled widely, living in or visiting the United States, Cyprus, Berlin, Malta, and more than a dozen Greek islands. Brian and his wife, Dot, return to Greece every year, where Lumley practices his skin-diving and spear-fishing (he gave up hang-gliding after turning 40).
When not traveling, the Lumleys live in Devon, England, with a demented cat.
Brain Lumley is currently at work on the sixth and seventh books in the Necroscope series.
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental.
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Copyright © by Brian Lumley 1987
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eISBN 9781466818712
First eBook Edition : April 2012
First Tor edition: February 1992
