Necroscope Quotes

“Blood is the life.”
― Brian Lumley, Necroscope

“It was not only the absence of light but the absence of everything. He might be at the core of a black hole, except a black hole has enormous gravity and this place had none. In one sense it was a metaphysical plane of existence, but in another it was not – because nothing existed here. It was simply a ‘place’, but a place in which no God as yet had uttered those wonderful words of evocation, ‘Let there be light!”
― Brian Lumley, Necroscope!

“Teach me how to ride your Möbius strip!”
― Brian Lumley, Necroscope

“A vampire,” the other slowly answered, carefully formulating his thoughts, “is not human. I saw enough on the night Ferenczy died to convince me of that. So what is he? He is an alien creature, a cohabitant of man’s body and mind. He is at best symbiotic, a gestalt-creature, and at worst a parasite, a hideous lamprey.”
― Brian Lumley, Necroscope

“Dragosani, I have seen a sister with her head cut off, with a stake through her breast and her eyes hanging on her cheeks, and I did not weep. No, but I pursued her slayers and skinned them and made them eat their skins. And I raped them with hot irons and before they could die soaked them in oil and put them to the torch”
― Brian Lumley, Necroscope

“You have told me, Dragosani, how many of my greatest deeds are now accorded to the Vlads, and how I am reduced to a ghost for frightening children. More than this, my very name will have been stricken from the old records, for that was their way in those days. If they feared something they destroyed it and pretended it had never been.”
― Brian Lumley, Necroscope

“What the hell’s maths? Star Trek on the telly and a stack of brand new Marvel comics in the newsagent’s—and I expect them to study numbers! God! And just wait another year or so, till they start to notice those funny lumps on girls—as if they haven’t already! And again: Maths? Hopeless!”
― Brian Lumley, Necroscope

“it, exactly as in his dream. It was a very creepy”
― Brian Lumley, Necroscope