His body has been destroyed (literally, he inhabits a new body at this point per the end of VAMPHYRI!), and his family his missing. It is a terrific tale in which we are shown a jaded and vulnerable Harry. While there, he encounters an ancient evil in the forests that is responsible for hundreds of horrors over the centuries. In the first of the novellas “For the Dead Travel Slowly” Harry has returned to the area of his youth in an attempt to find his missing son and wife. Harry Keogh is the Necroscope, meaning that amongst his several ESP powers, he can talk to the dead. If you find yourself in that camp, do yourself a favor and buy those novels yesterday.
We’ll say right here that if you haven’t read NECROSCOPE ( Amazon) and VAMPHYRI! ( Amazon) you shouldn’t read PIRATES yet. For the uninitiated, the Lost Years mark the 8ish year period between books 2 and 3. It contains two novellas, and a vignette (as Lumley calls it) that are set during the Lost Years of Harry Keogh’s life. Second, PIRATES is very thin, only 189 pages. First, the cover is done by the true Necroscope series artist, Bob Eggleton (one of our favorite artists)… and yet it seems almost YA. Upon first taking the book in hand, the reader will first notice two things. With the paperback due out soon, Tor sent us a copy of Lumley’s NECROSCOPE: HARRY AND THE PIRATES ( Amazon). His novels, over the years, have continually been able to impress our critical minds.
It is an under-appreciated genre that contains one of (in our opinions) the best writers out there: Brian Lumley.
Harry may be dead, but his legacy lives on.As you will all recall, our Fantasy 202 post involved a lot of Horror. But as Harry himself was witness, death isn't like that. The odds don't look good, and Harry Keogh is dead and gone, his motes scattered throughout the Universes of Light. Three men, their technology and the esoteric talents against shape-changing challengers from a parallel universe. Trask: human lie-detector David Chung: locator of all things evil Ian Goodfly: precog, whose glimpses of the ever-furtive future have so often saved the lives of his E-Branch colleagues. Without Necroscope - the one man who could talk to the dead and undead alike - only Ben Trask and the weirdly talented espers of his secret organisation, E- Branch, stand between Mankind's survival and its domination by terrible invaders from Starside. Īnd the Wamphyri are back - not only in the Vampire World, where the ancient northern ice has melted to release the original, the most evil, most powerful vampires of all time, but in our world, too.
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