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| Title | : | Necroscope (Necroscope #1) |
| Author | : | Brian Lumley |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 383 pages |
| Published | : | December 1st 1994 by Tor Books (first published June 26th 1986) |
| Categories | : | Horror. Paranormal. Vampires. Fantasy. Fiction |
Brian Lumley
Hardcover | Pages: 383 pages Rating: 4 | 18438 Users | 663 Reviews
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DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES...Except to Harry Keogh, Necroscope. And what they tell him is horrifying.
In the Balkan mountains of Rumania, a terrible evil is growing. 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 world domination. He will rule the world with knowledge raped from the dead.
His only opponent: Harry Koegh, champion of the dead and the living.
To protect Harry, the dead will do anything--even rise from their graves!
Details Books Conducive To Necroscope (Necroscope #1)
| Original Title: | Necroscope |
| ISBN: | 031285787X (ISBN13: 9780312857875) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Necroscope #1 |
| Characters: | Harry Keogh, Faethor Ferenczy, Thibor Ferenczy, Boris Dragosani, Max Batu |
| Setting: | London, England(United Kingdom) Moscow,1971(Russian Federation) Wallachia,1972(Romania) …more County Durham, England(United Kingdom) Pitești,1975(Romania) Titu,1975(Romania) Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, Scotland,1976 Leipzig(Germany) Endor …less |
| Literary Awards: | British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (1987) |
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Ratings: 4 From 18438 Users | 663 ReviewsCrit Appertaining To Books Necroscope (Necroscope #1)
I really should have loved this book, set in the years after WII with the traditional Cold War adversaries and an added supernatural twist, competing divisions made up of agents with unusual abilities. But there were long passages of background information that I really struggled to wade through. This is a series of books so I guess you can consider this a set-up book but it just seemed like there could have been a better way to incorporate all the information without resorting to these extendedIt seems like Ive had Necroscope and some of its sequels on my bookshelves forever. I think my early twenties I tried reading one of them and got bored in the first chapter so didnt get back to it. Thanks for a group read at Horror Aficionados group, I finally dug in, stuck with it, and soon became absorbed.It still takes a mighty long time to take off, but its just a slower style, a long tome that promises interest but divides its action sequences randomly. When fight is present, it stands out
Really more like 4.5 stars, but I'll be generous because there were entire sections here that were 5-star worthy. The first 1.5 hours or so of the audio recording were a bit long-winded and made me worry that I'd been duped into reading a book solely about political espionage (or in this case, E.S.P.ionage). However, once that bit was over the story really unfolded and took off in a couple of different and more interesting directions. I really enjoyed listening to the sections focusing on Harry
4.0 to 4.5 stars. I just finished re-reading this book and had forgotten just how much fun it was. Harry Keogh is an absolutely fantastic character and his powers (i.e., the powers of the Necroscope) are original and very cool. This is a book that I have not heard come up very often in discussions of really great series and I think that is a shame. This is extremely well written and very engaging. Highly recommended. Most recently read: August 10, 2009.
First few chapters are slow. Very slow. But then the book picks up and just keeps getting better. What I'd believed to be a vampire/horror novel revealed itself to be much more. Necroscope is a Cold War spy novel, where world powers use ESP-gifted agents to spy, interrogate, and assassinate. There is a vampire. It's a beautifully grotesque re-imagining of the monster, more Lovecraft than Stoker.
I am officially calling it quits on this book. I have been trying to read it for 10 days and barely made it to 35% of a less than 400 page book. No bueno.I kinda feel guilty about not finishing this, because it was selected for my bookclub, and I hate not finishing bookclub books. BUT, then I remember that life is too fucking short to waste on terrible books, and I have given this one more than enough of my time already. And it's not like I wanted to finish but couldn't... I just couldn't bring
Very cool story that ended up being more mature than I had expected. It starts out with a bang, kind of meanders around for a while in the middle but the last hundred pages brings everything together with a decent amount of action and bloodshed. Totally not a typical vampire story this book really scores high in originality.
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