Recently then, both Daham Drakesh and the Ferenczys have set to with greater determination to find Radu and kill him in his lair before his planned resurrection. They have discovered his keeper, B.J. Mirlu, and know that she has the assistance of Harry Keogh. Except they believe him to be Alec Kyle! Also, it would appear that this same Kyle has somehow contrived to break into the Ferenczys’ treasure vault at their “impregnable” manse, and make off with millions in negotiable currencies.
Daham Drakesh—who has kept himself secret even from the Ferenczys—is playing agent provocateur; he has sent disciples into Scotland to take out Bonnie Jean Mirlu and stir up additional trouble between Radu and the Ferenczys. Drakesh’s plan has backfired; protected by the Necroscope, B.J. has survived; Drakesh’s bloodson and a thrall have paid the ultimate price.
At Le Manse Madonie, the Ferenczys are furious over their own losses; they believe the break-in was a “pre-emptive strike” by Radu’s people, to discover their weaknesses before the dog-Lord’s return and the commencement of all-out war. In addition, they are now aware of a third player; for one of their thralls, a “sleeper” in Scotland, has witnessed something of the death of Drakesh’s disciples at the hands of Harry Keogh.
But while Drakesh’s losses are considerable (and while he has inadvertently shown his hand in things), he still plans to be the ultimate agent provocateur. In possession of a means to set not only vampires but nations at each other’s throats, the last Drakul is simply biding his time while continuing to plot against his own kind and humanity in general … and B.J. Mirlu and “Alec Kyle” specifically.
There are desperate, dangerous times ahead for Harry and Bonnie Jean—not least because the Necroscope’s mind is under her control. Already, many of the things that have happened to him are blank spaces in his memory, missing from his life like pages ripped from a book.
As such, they are part of the lost years …
ALSO BY BRIAN LUMLEY
The Caller of the Black
Beneath the Moors
The Horror at Oakdeene
The Burrowers Beneath
The Transition of Titus Crow
The Clock of Dreams
Spawn of the Winds
In the Moons of Borea
Elysia
Khai of Ancient Khem
The House of Cthulhu and Others
Ghoul Warning and Other Omens (poetry)
Return of the Deep Ones
Hero of Dreams
The Ship of Dreams
Mad Moon of Dreams
The Compleat Crow
Psychomech
Psychamok!
Demogorgon
Necroscope
Necroscope II: Vamphyri!
Necroscope III: The Source
Necroscope IV: Deadspeak
Necroscope V: Deadspawn
Vampire World I: Blood Brothers
Vampire World II: The Last Aerie
Vampire World III: Bloodwars
Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi
Dagon’s Bell and Other Discords
Necroscope: The Lost Years
AUTHOR’S END NOTE
In Part Four, Chapter III, the seventieth Quatrain from Nostradamus’s Second Century is authentic—and coincidental, naturally. In the same Chapter, the Hebrew cryptogram as used by numerologists is also authentic, and the results of the Necroscope’s, Nostradamus’s, and Darcy Clarke’s numbers are likewise coincidental, of course.
My own lifelong interest in numbers, the macabre, and magical things in general is … yet another happy coincidence!
Brian Lumley
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.
NECROSCOPE: RESURGENCE
Copyright © 1996 by Brian Lumley
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Lumley, Brian
Necroscope : resurgence / Brian Lumley,—1st ed.
p. cm.—(The lost years ; v. 2)
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ISBN 0-312-85948-1
1. Vampires—Fiction. I. Title. II. Series: Lumley, Brian. Lost years ; v. 2.
PR6052.U45N43 1996
823’.914—dc20
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First Edition: November 1996