The Last Aerie (Hardcover)

by Brian Lumley (Author) "To the members of E-Branch, bad dreams were an occupational hazard; it was generally accepted that nightmares went with the work..." (more)
Key Phrases: last aerie, deadspeak voice, teeming dead, Harry Keogh, Turkur Tzonov, Lord Nestor (more...)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
Following Blood Brothers , the second volume of the Vampire World series revisits the twin sons of Harry Keogh, a British ESP agent who became a Wamphyri (vampire Lord) in the parallel vampire world of Sunside/Starside. Now one twin, Nestor, himself a Wamphyri of Starside, plots to destroy his brother Nathan, who still lives with their native tribe on Sunside. When one of Nestor's vampire lieutenants throws Nathan into the gate to hell, Nathan discovers that it's really a gate to Earth. On Earth, Nathan finds himself pursued by an evil Russian psychic, who needs Nathan's knowledge in order to invade the Vampire world. Once more the agents of British E-Branch, a top-secret parapsychological agency, step in, teaching Nathan to tap the awesome powers he inherited from his father. Lumley uses language deftly to conjure his alien universe, and both setting and characters are vivid and engaging. The encyclopedic scope of the saga stretches this seemingly transitional phase to the limits of interest, however. Since little compelling action occurs in the present, most of the novel reads like a summing up of the previous volume and a precursor to the great confrontation to come in the next. Still, fans of the Necroscope series and this Vampire World series will undoubtedly enjoy this adventure.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Kirkus Reviews
Second novel in Lumley's Vampire World series (Blood Brothers, 1992), or subseries, but apparently seventh in the overall Necroscope series, each volume a doorstopper. Lumley hacks out his vampire universe with a plot of inhuman complexity that few could possibly keep straight--perhaps not even the author himself. Written in surreal impasto, his introductory synopsis is a crowded symbolist canvas whose weirdly lighted details escape a larger general meaning for new readers. At this point in the cycle, Nathan and Nestor, twin sons of Harry Keogh the Necroscope, a vampire hunter from a parallel vampire world who talks with the dead and zips swiftly through time and space, are now enemies in the Sunside/Starside world. Harry was an alien who sired his twins on Nana Kiklu of the Szgany Lidesci, but the twins have matured into opposites, with Nathan fey and gifted with weird power, and Nestor strong and lusty and now set on being lord of the Wamphyri (vampires)! We last saw Nestor snatched up by a flying monster, dropped into a land of lepers, then escaping, though into hideous dreams of the future, while his lieutenant Zahar had captured Nathan and tossed him into the Starside Gate, portal to hell-lands from which no man or monster had ever returned. Now Nathan is trapped on earth and being pursued by a maniacal psychic bent on murdering him, while a band of British psychics, who first became aware of the Keoghs back in 1990 (it's now 2006), protect him. Nestor, meanwhile, though a victim of nightmares, grows ever more vile in expanding his power, now torturing the dead (with whom he can talk in deadspeak), now raping girls while sucking them dry from within. Lumley's High Purple storytelling delirium remains undimmed. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 479 pages
• Publisher: Tor Books; 1st edition (August 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312853580
• ISBN-13: 978-0312853587
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.2 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #183,887 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LUMLEY-THE KING, April 14, 2000

By	Kurt Lavertue (HANOVER, MA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Last Aerie (Necroscope: Vampire World Trilogy) (Mass Market Paperback)

THIS INSTALLMENT OF THE BLOODBROTHERS TRILOGY ALONG WITH THE REST OF THE NECROSCOPE SERIES ARE VAMPIRES AT THEIR BEST.THIS STORY GIVES A GREAT LOOK AT THE HELL THAT IS STARSIDE/SUNSIDE.YOU CAN FEEL THE EVIL OF STARSIDES VAMPIRES AND THEIR RAGING LUSTS ANDTHE FEAR THAT IT INSTILLS IN THE TRAVELLERS (OR GYPSYS) OF SUNSIDE.THE DEVELOPMENT OF BOTH NATHAN AND NESTOR ,TWIN SONS OF THE NECROSCOPE,THE HABITATION OF THE LAST AERIE BY THE EXILES FROM TURGOSHEIM AND THE PRESENCE OF THE BRITISH E-BRANCH MAKE THIS A HARD BOOK TO PUT DOWN.LUMLEY WRITES A STORY THAT YOU DON'T WANT TO END.BY FAR THE BEST VAMPIRE SERIES GOING.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A NIGHTMARE WORLD OF WONDERS!, July 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Last Aerie (Necroscope: Vampire World Trilogy) (Mass Market Paperback)

This 2nd installment is just as good if not better than its predecessor. Lumley again triumphs in this novel of vampires and werewolves who don't get along with anyone or anything- including themselves! That makes for tons of conflict and great reading. The monsters come out at night and hunt the human travelers whom must keep on moving continually because of this nightmare world in which they live. But don't be fooled, these humans can take care of themselves pretty darn well. This is some of the best reading I have ever had the privilige of reading. And I read a lot of different kinds of books and I say this is up there with the best of them in my 30-plus years in reading. Keep up the good work Mr. Lumley!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One word..... Lumley, October 14, 1998

By	Paul and Tabatha Jarnagin (Littleton, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Last Aerie (Necroscope: Vampire World Trilogy) (Mass Market Paperback)

Not many authors can keep a reader coming back book after book(aside from King,Koontz,and the likes) but Lumley captures your jugular and doesnt release it!, I have read all of the Necroscope series and loved them. This is for readers familiar with the books.... 2 Wamphyri's up!