Necroscope

Necroscope

Author	Brian Lumley
Language	English
Genre	Horror/Science fiction/Adventure
Publisher	Harper Collins
Publication date	1986
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (Paperback)
ISBN	ISBN 0-586-06665-9
Followed by	Necroscope II: Wamphyri

Necroscope is the title of a series of horror novels by British author Brian Lumley.

The term necroscope, as defined in the series, describes someone who can communicate with the dead (coined Deadspeak later in the series). Unlike necromancers, who attempt to command the dead through rituals, spells, bodily mutilation and sometimes necrophilia, a necroscope simply communicates with them without any physical interference.

The term "necroscope" originally (in Greek) meant someone that can "see" (scope) into the dead (necro). It was used as a formal legal and scientific term for "Coroner" up to the middle of the 20th century. After the 1950s it ceased to be used, but can still be found in early 20th century books and encyclopedias (see Helios' Encyclopedia, 1954 Athens). Necroscope, as a term for Coroner, came to be considered distasteful as it was associated with the coroner's "tools" of the day, knives, saws and drills, and today is not in use. Notably, in the series the "necroscope" communicates with the dead without any tools, or bodily mutilation, an ability normally attributed to a "necromancer" (in Greek), whereas the "necromancers" in the series use tools like those used by the real "necroscopes", the coroners.

The abilities of a necroscope are defined as a type of ESP.

Harry Keogh, Necroscope

The hero of the Necroscope series- or antihero, as the story unfolds- is Harry Keogh. Keogh's grandmother was a Russian immigrant who settled in Great Britain. His father died when he was very young. His mother later remarried and was eventually killed by Harry's stepfather. During his early childhood Keogh lived with an aunt and uncle in County Durham in North East England. Keogh would eventually return to exact vengeance on his Russian stepfather.

While at school, and not particularly popular or academically inclined, Harry discovers his ability to speak to people who have died.

The author also puts forward the idea that death is not the end, and that whatever someone was or wished to be in life, he or she continues to be in death, within the restraints that death imposes. For example, a mathematician would continue perfecting his math, an inventor would keep inventing new things, and a psychic would continue to practice using their powers.

Not only can Harry speak to the dead (thus earning him their eternal admiration, almost amounting to worship), but he can also form a bond with them which allows them a degree of control over him when he permits. For example, when faced with a dangerous situation, Harry hands his mind over to the control of a former gym teacher who was an army sergeant, and learns martial arts skills. He does not forget what he learns, and continues to use this skill and many others throughout the series. In addition, if the dead are nearby and the physical situation permits, they will literally raise themselves up out of the ground and fight for him. This gives him powerful allies as, being dead already, they have nothing to lose and almost nothing to fear.

Harry is also able to teleport anywhere in the world via the Möbius continuum. By employing advanced equations learned through his dead tutors and his intuitive mathmatical mind, Harry can conjure a door in space and enter the Möbius contiuum, he can then create another door to exit. There is no time in the continuum so teleportation is instant. Harry is also able to open a past or future time door and observe what may be, but he cannot appear there physically.

Harry Jnr/The Dweller

Son of Harry Keogh and his wife Brenda, Harry Jnr shows immense intelligence even as toddler and has even greater powers than his father.

Forced to flee from Earth when under attack by the vampire Yulian Bodescu, the baby Harry Jnr showing even greater mastery over the Möbius continuum than his father transports himself and his mother to the parallel universe of Starside/Sunside but also back in time twenty years.

Living on Starside with his mother Harry Jnr is vampirised by a stray wolf and becomes Wamphyri and is named The Dweller In His Garden by the worlds inhabitants. Hiding his Wamphyri features behind a golden mask and black cloak he shuns the Wamphyri lifestyle instead using his great mental powers to hold his vampire at bay.

The Dweller forms an alliance with the Szgany Lidesci but becomes infamous among the Wamphyri of Starside because of his mysterious powers and fearing him they form an alliance to attack him in his "Garden" in the mountains.

Injured during the battle his vampire leech morphes his damaged frame into that of a wolf with the exception of his hands so that the Szgany may know him. The change removes his ability to use the Möbius continuum, leaving him with just deadspeak and telepathy, his mind wanes and he loses touch with his humanity, prefering to take the company of Starside/Sunside wolves.

Nathan Keogh/Kiklu

Son of Harry Keogh and a Szgany women Nana Kiklu and twin brother of Nestor and born in the Vampire World, Nathan is at first the quietest and most compassionate of the two and is thought of as dumb by some of the Szgany clan due to his lack of confidence and stutter, only talking to those truly close to him.

Inheriting his fathers deadspeak powers Nathan hears the thoughts of the dead in his dreams but they refuse to talk to him, wary of him as they had been his father at the end of his life. He also has 3 friendly wolves which talk to him telepathicly while he sleeps although not knowing why Nathan takes them as just dreams.

Everything changes for Nathan when his village on Sunside is attacked by Wamphyri, seeking his lost brother he leaves on a long journey of discovery firstly taking him across the whole of Sunside/Starside. Becoming strong and confident and losing his stutter and learning to use his long dormant telepathy while on his travels he eventually returns to his Szgany clan before being taken by the Wamphyri and is thrown through the Perchorsk gate to Earth.

Arriving in the Russian base he escapes and is found by the British E-Branch who teach him of his heritage and his true father and more importantly Nathan finally learns the ways of teleportation via the Möbius continuum like his father.

With the help of British E-Branch Nathan returns to his own world and wages war on the Wamphyri.

Jake Cutter

Jake Cutter is not a blood relative of Harry Keogh but becomes a Necroscope when the world is once again threatened by the Wamphyri.

Apparently chosen by the spirit of the dead Harry Keogh, Jake is spotted and recruited by the British E-Branch where he is tutored and taught about Harrys legacy and deadspeak and eventually masters the Möbius continuum.

The Wamphyri

Ferenczy Bloodline -

Belos Pheropzis (sp?) -

Thibor Ferenczy - Technically the first vampire to appear in the novels. Once a Wallachian barbarian transformed by Faethor Ferenzy. Conquers territories for hundreds of years until he is finally staked, chained, and buried beneath cruciform hills in Romania. Later discovered by necromancer Boris Dragosani.

Faethor Ferenczy - An old and very powerful Wamphyri residing on earth in the Dark Ages in a keep at the top of a mountain range in Szgany territory. After transforming Thibor he is attacked by his progeny one night upon his return to his castle. Burned almost to death, he plummets into a river and re-emerges centuries later, finally to die during a bombing raid during World War II.

Janos Ferency - Son of Faethor Ferenzy. Most noted for necromancy and telepathy powers which were even stronger than his fathers.

Fess Ferenc - A monstrous Wamphyri from the vampire homeworld of Sunside/Starside and the current head of the Ferenc Bloodline in the parallel world.

Yulian Bodescu - An infant who was infected with Vampirism by Thibor Ferenczy while still in his mothers womb. Infected from birth his vampiric powers and evil develop until he is destroyed.

Boris Dragosani - Eggson of Thibor Ferenczy. He is a necromancer in life and is destroyed before coming into full Wamphyri power.

Angelo Francezci -

Antonio Francezci -

Francesco Francezci -

Harry Keogh - The necroscope, vampire hunter, champion of the dead, is eventually vampirized himself and flees to the vampire world rather than risk his humanity and humanity itself.

Luigi Castanello -

Shaitan Bloodline -

Shaitan - the ORIGINAL Vampire in the parallel world and possible source of myths about Satan in ours.

Shaithis - Descendant of Shaitan and leader of the Vampire Lords as they battle Harry and Harry Jr.

Turgo Zolte - The eggson of Shaitan and a vampire hunter when alive, he later flees old starside and establishes Turgosheim, in which the "zolteist" followers practice relative control of their vampire natures.

Drakul Bloodline -

Karl Drakul -

Egon Drakul -

Lykan Bloodline -

Radu Lykan - Progenitor of the bloodline, Werewolf/vampire. A hunter in ancient starside before he was transformed by the leech of his companion wolf he was banished through the gate into our world over 2000 years ago along with ancient members of the Ferenczy and the Drakul bloodlines. Infected with plague by Faethor Ferenczy he was driven into a multicentury hibernation.

Bonnie Jean Mirlu -

Doombody Bloodline -

Dramal Doombody - an ancient vampire lord, known to have been egg father to Lady Karen and known to have slowly whithered from leprosy.

Lady Karen (presumeably Doombody)

Other Known Vampires -

Maglore the Mage

Volse Pinescu

Vormulac Unsleep

Devetaki Skullguise

Wratha the Risen

Nestor Lichloathe

Vasagi the suck/gape

Lesk the glut

Spiro Killglance

Wran "the rage" Killglance

Eygor Killglance

Siggi Dam

Gorvi the guile

Canker Cannison

Menor Maimbite

Main article: Wamphyri

Plot summary

Necroscope

Harry is an English youth in school, and strange things occur as he grows up, such as a sudden increased intellect in mathematics, and the ability to fight beyond his experience after a teacher is killed. Eventually he marries his childhood sweetheart, Brenda, who slowly realizes there is more to her now-successful writer husband: that he can speak to the dead, whose collective consciences remain behind, at the location of dying.

These dead can talk only to Harry at first, but eventually, they can "deadspeak" to each other. Coinciding with Harry's evolving abilities, Boris Dragonasi is contacted by a long-chained vampire, Thibor Ferenczy. Boris gains the ability to become a necromancer, who can forcefully extract secrets from the dead by playing with their remains and even eating them.

Harry goes to visit his stepfather, who he knows killed his mother by drowning her in a river, and lives in a house at that river. Harry, realizing his stepfather is a Russian spy who plans to kill him for his talents, sabotages his stepfather, but both crash through the ice and fall into the frozen river. As he tries to get out, Harry discovers a new ability of the dead when his mother's corpse drags his stepfather down into the cold river, drowning him also.

Eventually, Harry is contacted by E-Branch, who deal with ESPionage using psychic investigators and spies, while Boris is hired by the U.S.S.R. equivalent, the Opposition. Boris tracks down rumors of vampires, finding a World War 2 veteran who killed one, Faethor Ferenczy, along with a Russian Mongul, Max Batu, whose talent is to kill someone just by looking into their eyes. Eventually, Thibor manipulates Dragonasi and reveals that he is in a symbiotic relationship with a vampire, and they can reproduce but once per lifetime. He gives his offspring to Boris, who later betrays and kills Thibor with Batu, and in turn kills Batu so he can gain the secrets of using the "Evil Eye".

Meanwhile, the head of E-Branch, who was killed by Boris, requests Harry's help in defeating the necromancer. Harry uses his ability to talk to the mathematician Mobius, who teaches him to travel time (and later space) by using the "Mobius Continuum". Harry uses "doors" to leap to places, and goes (teleports) to Russia where Boris is now the head of Russia's ESPionage unit, having killed the former leader. Using an army of walking undead, he eventually finds Boris, who tries to use his newly-acquired "evil eye" to kill Harry. However, one of Harry's undead followers interposes himself between the two, and Dragosani is killed because, as Max Batu had told him earlier, "one cannot curse the dead, for the dead cannot die twice". Unfortunately, Harry himself dies in the conflict from gunshot wounds, but his mind also lives on like his dead friends; and his body survives long enough to draw Dragosani back into the Mobius continuum and trap him in a recurring time loop for all eternity.

Necroscope II: Wamphyri!

The spirit of Harry now resides in his son, Harry Jr. When his infant son sleeps, Harry can roam the Continuum and speak to the dead, but is gradually losing his control as the son "reels" his father's spirit back in.

Roaming in his spare time, Harry discovers that Thibor had infected a pregnant woman with a small part of his flesh, which results in a lesser breed of vampire, albeit a still formidable one. This youth, Yulian Bodescu, retains many vampire abilities: hypnotism, increased lust, bodily transformation, regeneration, and creating thralls (lesser vampires that are infected with a shed body part of the master vampire).

Harry eventually contacts Faethor Ferenczy, a master manipulator (as all vampires are), who wasn't ready to die but was forced to when he was pinned beneath an unmovable column. When Faethor died, a small worm like (leech) creature left his body, which was also killed. Talking to Faethor, Harry discovers that the creature is the "true" vampire and source of the Wamphyrii power, longevity, and when the two beings are merged, they are Wamphyri.

Faethor tells about Thibor, who was a mighty warrior centuries prior, and how he infected Thibor with his sole wamphyric egg. Thibor was to watch over Faethor's castle and servants while gone, but after disobeying him, Faethor had him chained underneath the earth (leading to the events of the prior book).

Yulian is creating thralls out of his family, and Thibor uses telepathy to tell him Harry Jr. is a great enemy. Yulian sets out to kill the infant, and Harry informs E-Branch that Thibor has a piece of dead skin left behind, to further Yulian's mutation. E-Branch teams up with the current Russian head to destroy Thibor's remains and a "finger mutation" left behind in Castle Ferenczy. Russians have meanwhile captured Alec Kyle and mindwiped him believing him to be a spy.

As Yulian prepares to murder Harry Jr, the youth slips through the Mobius Continuum to parts unknown with Brenda, after releasing Harry's consciousness, which takes over Alec's body, changing his appearance. Meanwhile, the dead rise to slaughter Yulian. Harry does not know where his wife and child have gone.

It is unclear at the end of the Novel whether Yulian would have developed into "FULL" Wamphyri, however such seems likely as he had been able to shapeshift extensively among other talents that lesser vampires seldom posess to any great extent.

Necroscope The Lost Years

A two book mini-series covering the 8 years between the second and third books of the Necroscope series where Harry Keogh searches for his missing son Harry Jnr and his wife Brenda. Harry has lost the use of his dad speak due to hypnotic interfering with his mind by the British E-Branch. Harry also has to deal with the resurgence of a long exiled Wamphyri Lord, the werewolf Radu Lykan.

Necroscope The Lost Years, Resurgence!

Continuing the story of Harry Keogh's search for his lost wife and son and his battle with the Werewolf Wamphyri Lord Radu Lykan

Necroscope III: The Source

The series starts to explore the origins of the Wamphyri manifestation on Earth. * years after Harry's son left Harry has left E-Branch and been searching the world for them. The new head of E-Branch, Darcy Clarke, recruits him in a case of a British spy (Jazz Simmons) who similarly disappeared, while investigating a Russian base.

On investigation Harry discovers the Base is the result of a blowback of a high powered photon beam into the atomic pile which powered it and has created a "Grey" hole in space time, a harmless ONE WAY passage to another world which the Russians have been sending people through, and which monsters have emerged from.

Traveling through a parallel grey hole in Romania Harry enters the source world of the Vampires, a world known as Starside/Sunside, wherein Vampire overlords prey on gypsie inhabitants, and wherein his now adult son (his son having used time travel as well as interdimensional to avoid Harry) is infected as a Vampire/Werewolf and besieged by the worlds Vampire Masters as he seeks desperately to protect both himself and the worlds people without losing what remains of his own humanity in the process.

Teaming up the father son duo destroy the Vampire lords, using the power of the sun, but in the process Harry Jr is horribly injured. Harry Jr, far more powerful than his father, strips Harry Sr of all math, deadspeak, and the Moebious Continuum before returning him unharmed to Earth.

Necroscope IV: Deadspeak

Several Years after his return to earth Harry Sr. is trouble by nightmares of resurgent Vampires. These nightmares are messages from the dead who he is unable to communicate with when awake due to the actions of Harry Jr.

Separately E-Branch is investigating Drug smuggling in the Mediterranean when two of its agents are assaulted, one Vampirized and the other rendered insane.

Harry Sr's new girlfriend, Sandra, herself secretly a member of E-Branch plays a pivotal role in bringing Harry into the mix. She had been assigned to watch him and if possible restore his awesome psychic powers and reports to the head of E-Branch on his status. Unknown to everyone this head is a sleeper agent for the Russian E-Branch/KGB community.

Afraid that Harry may be recovering his old powers, or perhaps developing new ones the Russians choose to eliminate him. The plot fails due to the intervention of the dead, and in the process Sandras status as an agent is revealed, as is the fact that Ken and Trevor are in trouble, and that the dead want Harry in the Med.

Together Harry, Sandra, & Darcy, go out to check on the situation. During the course of the investigation they learn that the drug smuggler is a resurrected Janos Ferenczy, using the alias Jianni Lazarides. Sandra and Ken Layard are kidnapped and vampirized, and Janos uses his telepathy to force Trevor Jordan to kill himself. Despite being virtually powerless Harry moves to engage Janos on his home ground in Romania, but not before spending the night (what would later be revealed to be a very fateful night) in the ruins of Faethers house in Ploesti, where Faether was burned down to his essential fats.

When he awoke the next morning Harry discovered he was surrounded by odd black mushrooms that exploded at the slightest touch releasing their spores into the air which he breathed. Overnight Faether had restored his Deadspeak, and had untangled most of Harry's mental troubles. However not being a mathematician he was unable to restore the necroscopes command of numbers and the Mobius Continuum.

With his deadspeak restored Harry sought out and again spoke to Mobius himself, who recruited other mathematicians to help with the problem as Harry approached Janos lair slowly. Harry began showing signs of developing telepathy and possibly other powers in his own right. A fact he initially put down to his mind compensating for the long lack of his other abilities.

During the final confrontation against Janos and his vampire thralls a group of Thracians raised from their ashes by Janos to help him instead took Harry's side and assisted him. This along with the timely restoration of his teleportation abilities through the Mobius Continuum allowed Harry to defeat Janos. The book closes shortly after Harry and the last Thracian Bodrog(sp?) stake and behead the vampirized Sandra.

Necroscope V: Deadspawn

Harry Keogh discovers that he is being transformed into a member of the Wamphyri by the spores of the mushrooms he inhaled at the ruins of Faethors house in Ploesti. Additionally he experiments with Janos Ferenczy's "resurrection" necromancy to restore some people - notably Trevor Jordan and Penny Sanderson - to life. E branch begins to suspect Harry may have been infected, but Darcy calls Harry in anyway on a serial killer case.

Resolved to do one last favor for humanity, both the living and the dead, Harry hunts down and deals with the necromancer/serial killer/rapist Johnny Found.

Shortly after this Harry, and Penny who slept with him while he was literally asleep and thus infected herself, are driven from England by E branch, who cannot risk Harry being allowed to live as a vampire. Eventually Harry and Penny flee for starside, but in the process Penny is killed.

Arriving back in the Vampire world Harry finds Lady Karen alive, after he had thought her dead from an attempted cure. The two out of loneliness become lovers for a time. But Shaithis, banished after battle with Harry and Harry Jr to the icelands is returning at the head of a small but vicious army, along side his ancestor from time immemorial, the most feared Wamphyri of all time, Shaitan himself.

Unfortunately Harry JR, injured by the sun itself in that battle has now mostly devolved into a wolf such as the one who transmitted its egg to him. Gone are most of his powers, leaving his father and Karen to face Shaitan and Shaithis almost alone.

Harry and Karen are, after a brief battle, crucified at the gate. However in a last act Karen commits suicide to take Shaithis with her and Harry and Harry Jr, combine their powers one last time to send a plea for help to earth which results in the dead in the Russian complex sending a nuclear armed exorcet through the gate, destroying Harry, Harry Jr, and Shaithis in a nuclear explosion.

Blood Brothers

It is revealed that after the Battle in the Garden (Necroscope 3, The Source) while recovering from the ravaging of his mind by his son The Dweller Harry Keogh fathered two sons unknowingly with a Szgany woman Nana Kiklu, in starside/sunside. This books covers in some part the boys growing up among the Szgany of Lardis Lidesci. With the vampires destroyed (Necroscope 5, Deadspawn)by Harry Keogh and Lady Karen with the help the wolf The Dweller the Szgany have stopped travelling and settled into towns. The boys grow up with their mother in the Lidesci town named Settlement with their friends and especially a girl named Misha and Lardis' son Jason. The boys suffer from dreams and sometimes nightmares of people whispering in their graves and they also talk to three wild wolves who for reasons unknown to them call the boys their uncles.

We also learn of a long forgotten part of the world to the far east of the known Starside/Sunside. Discovered a long time ago by an exiled Wamphyri Lords Turgo Zolte and now home to around 40 Wamphyri Lord and Ladies and similar Szgany tribes al under the command of the Lord Vormulac Unsleep. But whereas the Szgany of old Starside fight back against the Wamphyri, the Szgany in Turgosheim have become worn down and supplicant. Settling in towns and allowing the many Wamphyri to visit and take as they want, using a tithe system where they are forced to choose or find a certain number of "volunteers" to be taken and used by the Wamphyri. Aggravated and tired of the Turgosheim life and aware that the land in the west is free of vampires a group of six Wamphyri under the command of the Lady Wratha The Risen flee Turgosheim for the west.

As they grow older Nathan and Nestors once close relataionship deteriorates due in part because of their affections for Misha. While they are fighting over The Szgany girl their unprepared village is attacked by the Wamphyri lead by Wratha. After the attack Nathan journeys away from Settlement, believing his mother, brother and Misha have been taken by the Wamphyri he ends up alone, weary and destitute and ready to die in the desert. His deadspeak thoughts are answered by a dead elder of the underground desert dwellers the telepathic Thyre. Wanting to help Nathan the dead Thyre Rogei guides him to a resting place of their ancients where he is found by the guards there.

Nestor, also injured in the attack on the village ends up in the hills, his memory damaged due to a head injury and believing he is a Wampnyri Lord. Nestor witnessing a duel between two Wamphyri Lords, Vasagi the suck and Wran KIllglance, rivals and part of Wrathas group out of Turgosheim. His intervention in the form of a crossbow bolt fired into Vasagi allows the Killglance Brother to win. He is then "rewarded" by Wran for his help with Vasagi's egg and he becomes Wamphyri.

Nathan, previously shunned by the dead of the Szgany, is immediatly taken in by the Thyre and becomes famous among them, communicating with their dead and making many friends. Nathan becomes a conduit for the dead Thyre to talk to and teach the living Thyre, reuniting lost loved ones and telling them of new contraptions and inventions they have designed while dead. Learning to use his telepathy while travelling east with the Thyre across their many towns and underground outposts Nathan eventually ends up in Turgosheim.

In Turgosheim Nathan finds a supplicant Szgany tribe and is put into the tithe where he is taken to the manse of the Wampnyri Lord Maglore The Mage. Intrigued by Nathans intelligence, colours and demeanour Maglore does not vampirise him, instead choosing to keep him around as a companion or "pet". Nathan spends many days and weeks in Maglores manse learning about Turgosheim and meeting another pure human, the female Szgany girl Orlea. All the time keeping his powers and mentalism hidden from the Wamphyri Lord Nathan eventually 'escapes' on a flyer and goes back to western sunside and the Szgany Lidesci. Where he is reunited with his mother and marries Misha.

Upon Nathan's return Nestor senses him and is enraged to find him back. Believing in his broken mind that Nathan is an "old enemy" Nestor attacks Nathan and Misha along with one of his leuitenants Zahar, injured in the brisk skirmish Nestors flyer crashes near a leper colony but not before Nathan is thrown through the Perchorsk gate by Zahar on Nestors orders.

E Branch

E-Branch, "E" Standing for ESP, is a top secret branch of the British govenrment, classified so highly as to were hardly anyone knows they exist.(Russia and China are also known to have E-Branch's of their own). Using their ESP abilities the members of E-Branch practice espionage much like everyday spies. Using their telepathy, future srcying and location skills among others they are very good at what they do. They have also been known to help the police and military with unsolvable and 'special' cases. Most have E-Branch members have their own unique ablilities making them extremely valuable assets to the government and although sometimes skeptical, their untalented superiors hold them in very high esteme.

British E-Branch

Located on the entire top floor of a London Hotel, unbeknownst to the hotels owners who are unaware of what they do, believeing them to be a group of international entrepreneurs. The branch is governed by a Commander in chief who reports directly to the usually untalented Minister Responsible. The British are a very talented group, known to have the best E-Branch in the world and are dedicated to using the ESP abilities to do good in the world.

British ESPer's

Sir Keenan Gormley - Spotter

Alec Kyle - Seer

Ben Trask - Human Lie detector

Darcy Clark - Has an inbuilt "guardian angel"

Ian Goodly - Seer

David Chung - Locator

Trevor Jordon - Telepath

Ken Layard - Locator

Millicent Cleary -

Anna Marie English -

Soviet E-Branch

The Russian E-Branch has been based in a number of locations, they are first based in Russia in a old military installation named "Chataeu Borinitsky". Much like the British branch the russians are governed by one man who reports directly to the Russian President. But unlike the british the russians have been known for somewhat shady practices.

Allies of Harry Keogh/Nathan Keogh/Kiklu/JakeCutter

E-Branch - see the E Branch section

Zek Foener -

Jazz Simmons -

Lady Karen -

Harry Jr/The Dweller -

Sandra Markham -

Penny Sanderson -

Lardis Lidesci -

The Wamphyri

Creatures

Warriors -

Flyers -

Siphoneers -

Gas Beasts -

Familiars (bats) -

Punishments

Olden Wamphyri when defeated in a bloodwar were occasionally allowed to choose their fate, or assigned punishments that were seen as more fitting than death.

The Icelands -Occasionally a defeated lord would be banished to the Icelands. Such was the case of Shaitan the Unborn, Shaithis, Fess Ferenc, Volse Pinescu, Lord Schwart, Malinari the Mind, and Vavarra among others. These Lords in the main over time were frozen into the ice in an extended hibernation which ended when one of Shaitans beasts got to then, they eventually froze/starved to death after Millenia, or during the ice melt which briefly occurred after the event in the book BloodWar (Necroscope 10).

Banishment through the Gate - On occasion it was deemed appropriate to banish a enemy through the gate and into the "Hell Lands" aka our Earth. This was feared because no Vampire had ever returned from such banishment (the gates only work one way) but with the Wamphyri not able to understand that they assumed the lands beyond must be hellish and deadly. The original gate actually opened in our world in a cave with an underground river which was a tributary of the Danube under the Carpatians in Romania. The second gate, created thousands of years later by a Russian experiment sat atop the first and opened into another cave under the Urals.

Death - The means of most reliably carrying out a death sentence was to stake the offending vampire, behead them, then burn and scatter the ashes.

Staking out - A vampire might be staked out on the Sunside of the mountains during the night and left to be burned to death by exposure to the sun. This method however was unreliable as there was always the chance, however slim, of the vampire in question receiving help and escaping before sunrise.

Entombment - a Vampire could be staked, wrapped in silver chains, and left buried under the starside plains to slowly whither. These vampires might or might not actually die depending on how powerful and how long they were there, but would be effectively immobilized by the stake and even once it finally rotter away would still be held by the silver chains.

The Shing`t

In Necroscope: The Touch a race of aliens known as the Shing`t are introduced to the world. The Shing`t supposedly seeded the earth long long ago with a mix of native DNA and their own to create a sentient race they could return to some day.

The Shing`t organize themselves into "Three groups" that consist of three Shing`t who study, think, and work together. These three groups allowed them to study every facet of science and all other fields accurately. Each three group was dedicated to a different path. The Shing`t adopt their number in the three group along with the name of the number one in that group and that is their name.

Series bibliography

Necroscope

• Necroscope (1986)
• Necroscope II: Wamphyri (1988); US title: Necroscope II: Vamphyri! (1988)
• Necroscope III: The Source (1989)
• Necroscope IV: Deadspeak (1990)
• Necroscope V: Deadspawn (1991)

Vampire World

• Vampire World I: Blood Brothers (1992)
• Vampire World II: The Last Aerie (1993)
• Vampire World III: Bloodwars (1994)

The Lost Years

• Necroscope: The Lost Years [Volume I] (1995)
• Necroscope: The Lost Years Volume II (1996); US title: Necroscope: Resurgence The Lost Years Volume II (1996)

E-Branch trilogy

• E-Branch: Invaders (1999); US title: Necroscope: Invaders (1999)
• Necroscope: Defilers (2000)
• Necroscope: Avengers (2001)

Supplemental

• Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes (2003)

New Adventures of the Necroscope

• Necroscope: The Touch (June 13, 2006)

Related role-playing games

• Ed Bolme. The World of Necroscope (1995) published by West End Games.

Supplements

• Miranda Horner, Daniel Scot Palter, Brian Sean Perry and Jesse VanValkenburg. Deadspeak Dossier (1995)
• Miranda Horner and George R. Strayton. The E-Branch Guide to Psionics (1996)
• Edward Bolme and Andrew Heckt. Wamphyri (1996)
• Mark Barnabo, Edward S. Bolme, Angel McCoy, and Christopher E. Wolf. Operation: Nightside (1997)

Related comic books and graphic novels

1. The Necroscope series of comic books published by Malibu Comics, collected in a graphic novel titled Necroscope:
   • October 1992
   • December 1992
   • February 1993
   • April 1993
   • June 1993
2. The Necroscope Book II: Wamphyri series of comic books was published by Malibu:
   • August 1993
   • November 1993
   • January 1994
3. Another series of comic books entitled Necroscope was published by Caliber Comics:
   • 1997
   • 1998

Other media

• German heavy metal band Rage released a song based on the Necroscope series titled "Talking to the Dead" on their End of All Days album in 1996.

External links

• Necroscope pages at Brian Lumley's website
• Necroscopy: A Guide to the Necroscope series