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British author Lumley's first Necroscope novel since Necroscope IV: Deadspeak (2001) introduces a new hero, Scott St. John, who, like his late predecessor, Harry Keough, is able to talk to the dead and travel anywhere via Moebius strip. Scott becomes a spy in the E-Branch of the British Secret Service, joining, among others, a future-foretelling precog, a mind-reading telepath and a spotter who can detect persons with ESP. When a government official suffers "evagination" (in effect, he's turned inside out like a glove), Scott and crew wind up on a mission to prevent a psychically gifted race, the Shing't, from destroying the Earth. The spirit of Scott's recently deceased wife permits him to dally with an extraterrestrial beauty, Shania, as well as, however implausibly, a shaggy female wolf. Billed as horror, this unpretentious SF adventure provides plenty of fun in the classic pulp tradition. (June)
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Lumley returns to the Necroscope saga for the first time in five years and skillfully extends it. Scott is a gentleman mourning his wife's death when he is struck by golden lightning, a manifestation of the old Necroscope, Harry Keogh, that makes Scott the new one. Thereafter, a beautiful woman of the race of the Shing't appears and vanishes and eventually reveals a plot by some of her colleagues to make God reveal himself by threatening the world with destruction. Add to those developments intimations that Scott's wife isn't as dead as he'd thought; indeed, she can manifest herself to share the dangers presented by a truly monstrous trio of Shing't. Lumley's stuff retains a strong Lovecraftian flavor, but his powers of characterization and concepts of evil have notably improved over the course of nearly two generations of Necroscopy. The audience that has faithfully sustained that long run will rededicate itself if, as seems likely, this book begins a new Necroscope story arc. Roland Green
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Twenty years ago, the horror world was forever altered by the publication of _Necroscope_. An instant classic, Brian Lumley's astonishing feat of imagination spawned a universe which Lumley has explored and expanded through more that a baker's dozen of novels and novellas. Millions of copies of _Nec
Twenty years ago, the horror world was forever altered by the publication of _Necroscope_. An instant classic, Brian Lumley's astonishing feat of imagination spawned a universe which Lumley has explored and expanded through more that a baker's dozen of novels and novellas. Millions of copies of _Nec