Brian Lumley

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Brian Lumley

Necroscope Avengers

pbk 20 Sep 01

Necroscope Defilers

Books By Brian Lumley

About the Author

Bibliography

First British Edition Hodder & Stoughton (2001)

Paperback - NEL (2001)

Necroscope Avengers
E-Branch Volume 3
They're on the run! Now that their monstrous vampire 'gardens' under London, in Australia and on the Greek island of Krassos have been razed, two 'Lords' and a 'Lady' of the Wamphyri - Malinari the Mind, Lord Szwart and the hag Vavara - have joined forces, leaving a trail of undead destruction as they flee headlong from Ben Trask's E-Branch and the dead-waking Necroscope, Jake Cutter.
But headstrong Jake has problems of his own. In the metaphysical Mobius Continuum, it appears that his blue life-thread - the emblem of his humanity - is gradually fading, changing to red.
And not only red but blood red, dreaded insignia of the Great Vampire!
Could this be the downside of Harry Keogh's legacy? And if so, are the Necroscope and Trask's ESP-talented Avengers - his team of precogs, telepaths, and locators - hastening in pursuit of their own hideous doom? Earth's fate is undecided, mankind's destiny on hold, the future a page as yet unwritten.
And the future was ever a devious thing...
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Praise for Brian Lumley
'Vast in scope ... This new novel carries on the tradition in fine form. During an explosive start, the novel introduces Jake Cutter, another of Lumley’s gutsy populist heroes. A climactic encounter in the Australian mountains gets the action roaring [at] the story's finale' Publishers Weekly (E-Branch: Invaders)
'Lumley is an excellent contemporary horror writer` The Guardian
'One of the best writers in the field' John Farris
'Wide-angle horror of a scope too rarely seen in modern fiction ... a feast for a horror fan' F. Paul Wilson
‘Necroscope fans will find themselves reading as fast as Lumley can type’ Kirkus Reviews

Paperback - NEL (2001)

First British Edition Hodder & Stoughton (2000)

Necroscope Defilers
E-Branch Volume 2
Jake Cutter is reluctantly learning how to be a Necroscope - how to use the Mobius continuum to travel instantaneously from place to place, how to talk to the dead - but the dead don't like him much. It seems Jake's got a hitchhiker in his mind, a dead vampire named Korath. Since Korath holds the key to the Mobius equations, Jake can't just kick him out ... though he's certainly trying!
Jake's not sure he really wants to be a member of E-Branch, the supersecret ESP-powered organisation that's dedicated to eradicating the vampire infestation of Earth. To the freewheeling, passionate Jake, the E-Branchers seem a little stuffy and hidebound - except for the lovely Liz, whom Jake wants to get to know better, body and mind. But Liz is a telepath, and if Jake's not careful, she'll find out about Korath. And that will likely be the end of Jake Cutter.
In Australia, Jake helped E-Branch destroy the aerie of the mind-master, Nephran Malinari, one of the trio of Great Vampires who came to Earth from the vampire world. Malinari escaped and went to ground with the hideously beautiful Lady Vavara. Vavara has taken over a holy monastery on an idyllic Greek island and turned the nuns into most unholy creatures of fearsome appetites for all things carnal.
Jake wants revenge against the Italian mobsters who killed the woman he loved, and nearly killed him. As far as he's concerned, E-Branch can search for Malinari, Vavara, and the metamorphic Lord Szwart without him until he's satisfied his own bloodlust. But it seems vampire-hunting is truly Jake's job now - the men he's trying to kill aren't men at all, but vampire spawn, hidden for two generations in human guise!
To defeat them, Jake will need every weapon in Necroscope's arsenal, including the power to call the unsleeping dead out of their mouldering graves ...

About The Author
Brian Lumley's list of published books now runs to some forty volumes. A prolific author, he has seen the bulk of his work in print in the last sixteen years, following a full span of twenty-two years of military service.
1986 saw the first publication of his groundbreaking horror novel Necroscope whose instant success led on to four more books (Wamphyri!, The Source, Deadspeak and Deadspawn) in the original series, the related Vampire World trilogy and, most recently, the two volumes of Necroscope: The Lost Years. In Britain all of these books have seen multiple reprints. In America, Lumley's books have sold well in excess of two million copies.
Meanwhile, Necroscope comic books, graphic novels, a role-playing game and quality figurines have been created from themes or characters in the books. The novels themselves have been translated into many languages and published all over the world.
Brian Lumley is a past winner of the British Fantasy Award for his short story, Fruiting Bodies. He won the Fear Magazine Award for Necroscope Ill: The Source. And at the World Horror Convention, Phoenix, 1998, he was awarded the title, Grandmaster of Horror …

Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

Necroscope Avengers (Hodder & Stoughton, 2001) NEL Pbk Sep 01

Necroscope Defilers (Hodder & Stoughton, 2000) NEL Pbk Jan 01