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Necroscope II: Vamphyri! (Necroscope #2)
by
Brian Lumley
Harry Keogh, necroscope, thought that the war with the vampires had ended with the destruction of Boris Dragosani--his nemesis from Necroscope. But the man who talks to the dead lives on, more powerful than ever, able to transport himself instantly to any spot on the globe--and to speak mind to mind with both the living and the dead.
Paperback, 480 pages
Published
April 15th 1989
by Tor Books
(first published 1988)
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2. Felix Krakovitch, agent for a special operative in USSR –Romania, has just been through a horrid ordeal. He has lost almost his entire unit to zombies and Harry Keogh and now has been made head of his unit taking over the job of finding out what happened. When cleaning up the mess afterward, he discovers the bodies of two men who were responsible for part of the upheaval, one of them harboring some sort of growth that had crawled out of the body once its host was killed. The two get rid of th...more
Harry is dead, but he learns that his so , is also a Necroscope. While his son sleeps Harry can use his mind to go into the Mobius Continuum. But as Harry Jr. gets more familiar with this he subconciously is kicking Harry out of his mind. Harry has a limited timeframe to track down what he has learned in the spirit world. 1. A formidable vampire (Thibor Ferenczy)has created another (Yulian Bodescu) to kill Harry Jr. Harry contacts Thibor's maker, Faethor Ferenczy who is a spirit and learns the s...more
OK, I can´t say the second part of the Necroscope series was bad. History of Thibor and Faothor Ferenczy was intersting and incestous scenes between Yulian and his cousin even gave me a bone. Battle scene in the house of Yulian totally kicked ass as well but contrary to first part of the book there was something missing
1/ There were many illogical decisions made by the main characters that pissed me off.
2/ Bunch of characters who didn't get a chance to be introduced. So it means I read a storyli...more
1/ There were many illogical decisions made by the main characters that pissed me off.
2/ Bunch of characters who didn't get a chance to be introduced. So it means I read a storyli...more
Very good series! Imagine any knowledge that you needed at the ready for your asking. Enter Harry. Very well designed story, with a main character that is easily identified with, Harry Koegh. The imagination that came up with these characters must have experienced some truly awful things. Lumley, being an ex SAS officer, surely did.
The vampires in this series are not nice. They are not warm and fuzzy. They're not cute (well, the women can be) and they know one primal rule: Anything to remain al...more
The vampires in this series are not nice. They are not warm and fuzzy. They're not cute (well, the women can be) and they know one primal rule: Anything to remain al...more
I didn’t enjoy this as much as I did the first book and it felt quite like as it felt largely tacked on. By that I mean that the first book could easily be a stand alone book rather than part of a series and while the second contains many of the characters from the first it wasn’t really a continuation, which is what I had been expecting.
The aspects I liked were the back story of Thibor which was very gothic, atmospheric and enjoyable if cut short after he finally becomes a wamphyri. I also sor...more
The aspects I liked were the back story of Thibor which was very gothic, atmospheric and enjoyable if cut short after he finally becomes a wamphyri. I also sor...more
Lumley returns with Harry Keogh and his esper warriors in one of the most terrifying episodes of the Necroscope series. Thick with deaths a plenty, Whamphyri takes you back to where it all began...before Harry, before E-branch, before Boris Dragosani. The brilliance of this book is that it picks up from the last seconds of where Necroscope left off and doesn't fail to please. The horror is twice as gruesome, the double-talk is twice as deceitful, the action is twice as exciting. A sequel that ou...more
Ok , cards on the table again - I have become an ardent Brian Lumley fan, so this may not be as objective a review as it possibly could be....
This is an excellent follow-up to "Necroscope" , which features Harry Keogh himself as a ghost for most of the book .The action happens on 2 fronts : 1stly Vampire Yulien Bodescu is active in England , & is building an army of the undead , whilst E-Branch are also active in Russia & Romania , dealing with the aftermath of Boris Dragosani .
Brian Lu...more
This is an excellent follow-up to "Necroscope" , which features Harry Keogh himself as a ghost for most of the book .The action happens on 2 fronts : 1stly Vampire Yulien Bodescu is active in England , & is building an army of the undead , whilst E-Branch are also active in Russia & Romania , dealing with the aftermath of Boris Dragosani .
Brian Lu...more
Drei Jahre sind seit Teil 1 vergangen. Boris Dragosani kehrt wieder in seine Heimat Rumänien zurück, um seinen Ziehvater, den untoten Vampir Thibor Ferenczy, zu besuchen. In einem Jahr will der Vampir sein Versprechen einlösen und Boris in die Geheimnisse der Vampyri einweihen.
Mittlerweile hat Boris „Eisen im Blut“, wie der Vampir es nannte. Er ist die rechte Hand von Borowitz, des Leiters der sowietischen ESP-Geheimorganisation, die es mit ihren Vorhersagen geschafft hat, sich bei Breschnew une...more
Mittlerweile hat Boris „Eisen im Blut“, wie der Vampir es nannte. Er ist die rechte Hand von Borowitz, des Leiters der sowietischen ESP-Geheimorganisation, die es mit ihren Vorhersagen geschafft hat, sich bei Breschnew une...more
3.5 to 4.0 stars. The second book in the Necroscope Trilogy, this is a series that deserves a lot more attention then it gets (probably because they have some of the WORST COVERS I have ever seen). Set during the Cold War and somewhat similar to the "Laundry Series" of Charles Stross as it deals with a secret branch of British Intelligence that recruits and employs people with "paranormal" talents in a battle against Russia's similiarly constituted E-branch. The star of the series is Harry Keogh...more
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Second in the Necroscope Trilogy starring Harry Keogh, this book also continues the story of Thibor Ferenczy, going back to his beginnings when he first became a vampire. While he is telling Harry the story, he sort of leaves out a small detail: he had managed to create a new vampire, one almost as powerful as himself, while laying buried under the earth. The new kid's name is Yulian Bodescu -- the name just SOUNDS evil!!! Now Yulian poses a threat and once again Harry & his friends at Briti...more
Harry Keogh and his fellow British E-Branch operatives team up with Russians to combat a half vampire/half human on the loose in book 2 of the Necrosope trilogy. Fast paced and exciting, this book was a more interesting and 'edge of your seat' read than book 1. Although the ending was reminiscence of the first Necroscope, the rest of the book was pure fun.
Not a bad book in its own right, the second in the Necroscope series I find dull, simply because it is far too similar in plot to the first. It reads like a rewrite of the first with less zip.
If you intend to read the entire series (and I'd recommend it) then you'll need to read this to follow the story arc, but don't expect any major pzazz from it.
If you intend to read the entire series (and I'd recommend it) then you'll need to read this to follow the story arc, but don't expect any major pzazz from it.
As I said in my review of the first book in the series, Necroscope, I first read these books in middle and high-school. They are dated, but once you think of them as historical fiction and are able to overlook the politic and technology, they are well worth the read. Lumley had a wonderful story here, and excellent characters, not to mention a mind-blowing plot line.
The books are a bit a slow to read, but only because they make you think and figure out what's going on. Details, intrigue, tensio...more
The books are a bit a slow to read, but only because they make you think and figure out what's going on. Details, intrigue, tensio...more
Nimmt im Gegensatz zum ersten Teil deutlich an Fahrt auf, die zuvor angelegten, vielen Fäden laufen endlich zusammen. Das Finale ist furios, lässt aber den Leser etwas ratlos zurück, wie die Geschichte weiterlaufen soll. Dennoch ein guter Cliffhanger, der gleich zum nächsten Teil greifen lässt.
I'm not suggesting this is a bad book, but it is far from the best in the series. There are too many stories to many different plots at work here and too many different characters working at cross purposes. It would've been a better story a better book if the narrative have been more focused. However, I still enjoyed the book and am going to continue rereading the series in e-book format.
No me pareció que fuera tan bueno como el primero, aunque tiene partes muy emocionantes. El antagonista, Yulian Bodescu, es uno de los personajes más retorcidos que me ha tocado leer, tanto así que de principio a fin lo detesté. Creo que aún lo odio.
Very fast paced story with many twists and turns towards the finish. One of the best thing about the series is how it deals with the concept of the Mobius continuum being used for travel.
"Vamphyri" appears in the title, but it does not appear that way even once in the book itself; there it is always "Wamphyri". It's just one more sign that this series needed better editors.
It was during either this book or the next one where I started going, "You know, warping the mythos is cool and all, but this is starting to get just plain nuts."
Vamphyri, Necroscope II, by Brian Lumley, is the second book in a trilogy. You could read it as a stand alone book. If you love vampires this is a great book for you. Not the vampires of True Blood or Twilight but real vampires. I enjoyed this book very much.
I hated this book. A friend of mine traded the first 4 or 5 books of this series for my art history books. I think he got the better books.
Really good book but... lol Jesus Christ, is the Vampire Reproduction thing stupid. Check it out but it may lose you at the aforementioned point.
2 Stars instead of 3 this time around. I'm going to stop complaining about the Character Development enigma and just carry on reading these books.
One thing that struck me in this book, especially, was that for a horror sci-fi book, the amount of gore / desciptive writing was on the lower end. Not a deal breaker, just an observation. There were a few sequences that I thought could have been really jazzed up but the author just kind of flew through them.
Like the first novel in this series, I rea...more
One thing that struck me in this book, especially, was that for a horror sci-fi book, the amount of gore / desciptive writing was on the lower end. Not a deal breaker, just an observation. There were a few sequences that I thought could have been really jazzed up but the author just kind of flew through them.
Like the first novel in this series, I rea...more
I'm going to be haunted by this series until I finish it, I'm still rather miffed that it isn't available on Kindle
Brilliant!! Just when you thought the first book couldn't be topped. Bravo Brian Lumley your writing is epic : )
Brief review on my blog: Weezie’s Reading Roundup: March 2011
I did not enjoy this book at all--I done with the series.. It is to bad, I thought the first book was pretty good..
Yet another wonderful read... Going to start the next one... Will update this when I am not stuck with my head in a book.
I can't decide if this was my favourite out of the three books or not. I think it might have been.
Not for the faint of heart, but for grown-ups...a frightening and original vampire read!
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Brian Lumley was born near Newcastle. In 22 years as a Military Policeman he served in many of the Cold War hotspots, including Berlin, as well as Cyprus in partition days. He reached the rank of Sergeant-Major before retiring to Devon to write full-time, and his work was first published in 1970. The vampire series, 'Necroscope', has been translated into ten languages and sold over a million copie...more
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