Necroscope: The Plague-Bearer [Hardcover]

Brian Lumley (Author), Bob Eggleton (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 30, 2010 | Series: Necroscope

Harry Keogh is moving on. Though the search for his missing wife and child continues, his heart now lies in Edinburgh with Bonnie Jean--a beautiful Scottish werewolf whose friendly pack and flourishing pub have given him a place he can almost call home.

But from the rocky heights of Sicily, the diabolical Francezci brothers plot the wolf-pack's destruction; and down in the terrible Pit beneath Le Manse Madonie, an ancient evil schemes.

The vampires conspire. They reach a decision. They choose a vector. Mafia thug Mike Milazzo is no good to anyone, anytime, anywhere…which makes him perfect. Disposable.

The brothers infect him with a deadly poison--an engineered plague that even a werewolf could never survive--and they offer him a terrible bargain: successfully contaminate the wolf-pack, and receive the antidote. Fail, and die!

Mike has everything to lose. So does Harry Keogh. But the Necroscope lost everything once before, and he isn't about to do it again...

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Lumley reveals perhaps more than he intended to in the note following this turgid supernatural novella, originally intended to be a chapter in his 1995 two-part novel, The Lost Years. Having promised his publisher a vampire tale, Lumley remembered a story line he had previously thought superfluous and decided to write it after all. The convoluted plot, in which the Francezci brothers recruit American mobster and vampire Mike Milazzo as a weapon against Harry Keogh, a necroscope who can communicate with the dead, will leave many readers wishing the author had left it on the cutting-room floor. The writing is often clumsy (Harry knew that their moon-child nature caused little more than a trace of the telepathic phenomenon known by E-Branch's mentalists as mindsmog), and the story will make sense only to Lumley's longtime fans. (May)
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 184 pages
• Publisher: Subterranean; Deluxe Hardcover Edition edition (April 30, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159606272X
• ISBN-13: 978-1596062726
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #844,711 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Overall happy, September 26, 2010

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This review is from: Necroscope: The Plague-Bearer (Hardcover)

I've been a fan of Brian Lumley's writing for over a decade! I've found something I liked in every one of his books I've read(17 of them so far). The only detractor from this book is the length. Most of the other Necroscope books were twice the page count as this one was. It was a good read, I just wanted more.

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Please stop!, July 27, 2011

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I dont get it! If Lumley is this disenchanted with vampires and dare I say bored with it then why continue putting out this mess? Why not just write a stand alone original story? Why keep revisiting Harry Keogh whe theres Nathan to revisit or the backstory of the Dweller. Lumley is an amazing writer who is far to talented for this mess