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Horror novel series by Brian Lumley

Necroscope is the title of a series of horror novels by British author Brian Lumley. The term necroscope, as defined in the series, describes someone who can communicate with the dead (coined Deadspeak later in the series). Unlike necromancers, who here extract the knowledge they seek by brutal eviscerations of corpses, a necroscope can communicate with them as equals: peacefully and without any physical interference. The abilities of a necroscope are defined as a type of ESP.

In this version of reality, based solely in the novel, the character Harry Keogh (born Harry Snaith), the Necroscope, is born with the ability to speak to the dead. As he grows up and his power manifests itself, he befriends the dead and learns from them that death is not the end. He believes that although the body dies, the mind goes on and the dead continue to improve and expand in death what they loved in life. From him, the once silent Great Majority, commonly known as the dead, learn to communicate amongst themselves, and love Harry for it. In turn, the Great Majority offer him their knowledge. Within the novel, while Harry is at school, a deceased math teacher helps him with his developing mathematics talent and an ex army sergeant teacher imparts self defense skills. As the years go by, he has recurring dreams about his mother, dead after an apparent ice skating accident but in reality murdered by her husband – Harry's stepfather Victor Shukshin. Shukshin is a psychic sensitive, a defector sleeper agent fictionally planted in England by the Soviet E Branch. In his self appointed mission to avenge his mother's death, Harry is dragged into a web of espionage involving British and Soviet ESP agencies. This leads to Harry learning to use the Möbius Continuum (from its discoverer August Ferdinand Möbius himself, at his grave in Leipzig, Germany), which allows him to instantaneously transport himself anywhere in the multi dimensional universe. From that point on, Keogh, backed by the British E Branch, works to rid the human world of a vampire menace, a mission that will eventually lead him to a parallel world. This fictional parallel word consists of Sunside/Starside, the vampire dominated world connected to Earth via two portals, one in Romania (the original "source" of vampires on Earth) and a second, recent one in the Soviet run Pechorsk Project in the Urals. It is on Sunside/Starside that Harry Keogh's final death eventually meets up with him, after he has lost his family, his friends, even his deadspeak and numeracy, but not his humanity. As Harry knows well and as the novel presents it – death is not the end, his was a success story and such stories need to go on. In the Möbius Continuum, Harry's essence explodes in a burst of golden light, and from that explosion a myriad of golden darts, each a part of Harry, come forth. Each of those golden darts carry a part of Keogh, and can join with hosts to grant them some of the abilities of the original Necroscope. Later books in the series tell the stories of individuals touched by these darts: Nathan Kiklu, Jake Cutter and Scott St. John. The darts seek to continue their mission in life, and so bond to individuals who will come up against the Necroscope's old foes, the Wamphyri, and menaces of diabolic nature. Harry's physical remains, infected by the spores of the vampire Faethor Ferenczy, were sent back in time by the Möbius Continuum and ended up in the marshes of Sunside/Starside, making him the source of the vampire plague when his own spores infected the exiled Shaitan who becomes the first Wamphyri Lord.

#Title1st EditionSeries1. Necroscope1986Necroscope2. Necroscope II: Wamphyri1988Necroscope3. Necroscope III: The Source1989Necroscope4. Necroscope IV: Deadspeak1990Necroscope5. Necroscope V: Deadspawn1991Necroscope6. Blood Brothers1992Vampire World7. The Last Aerie1993Vampire World8. Bloodwars1994Vampire World9. Necroscope: The Lost Years (Volume I)1995The Lost Years10. Necroscope: Resurgence, The Lost Years (Volume II)1996The Lost Years11. Necroscope: Invaders1999E Branch12. Necroscope: Defilers2000E Branch13. Necroscope: Avengers2001E Branch14. Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes2003Supplemental15. Necroscope: The Touch2006New Adventures of the Necroscope16. Necroscope: Harry and the Pirates2009Supplemental17. Necroscope: The Plague Bearer2010The Lost Years18. Necroscope: The Möbius Murders2013The Lost Years

The hero of the Necroscope series – or antihero, as the story unfolds – is Harry Keogh. Keogh's grandmother was a Russian immigrant who settled in Great Britain. His father died when he was very young. His mother later remarried and was eventually killed by Harry's stepfather. During his early childhood, Keogh lived with an aunt and uncle in County Durham in North East England. Keogh would eventually return to exact vengeance on his Russian stepfather. While at school, being not particularly popular or academically inclined, Harry discovers his ability to speak to people who have died. He also, in most part due to this ability, shows great aptitude in the fields of mathematics and creative writing. The author also puts forward the idea that death is not the end, and that whatever someone was or wished to be in life, he or she continues to be in death, within the restraints that death imposes. For example, a mathematician would continue perfecting his math, an inventor would keep inventing new things, and a psychic would continue to practice using their powers. Not only can Harry speak to the dead in this series (thus earning him their eternal admiration, almost amounting to worship), but he can also form a bond with them which allows them a degree of control over him when he permits. For example, when faced with a dangerous situation, Harry hands his mind over to the control of a former gym teacher who was an army sergeant, and learns martial arts skills. He does not forget what he learns, and continues to use this skill and many others throughout the series. In addition, if the dead are nearby and the physical situation permits, they will literally raise themselves up out of the ground and fight for him. This gives him powerful allies as, being dead already, they have nothing to lose and almost nothing to fear. Within the Necroscope series, Harry is also able to teleport anywhere in the world via the Möbius continuum, which he learned from August Ferdinand Möbius. By employing advanced equations learned through his dead tutor and his intuitive mathematical mind, Harry can conjure a door in space and enter the Möbius continuum, he can then create another door to exit. There is no time in the continuum, so teleportation is instant. Harry is also able to open a past or future time door and observe what may be, but he cannot appear there physically.

Miranda Horner, Daniel Scot Palter, Brian Sean Perry and Jesse VanValkenburg. Deadspeak Dossier (1995)
Miranda Horner and George R. Strayton. The E Branch Guide to Psionics (1996)
Edward Bolme and Andrew Heckt. Wamphyri (1996)
Mark Barnabo, Edward S. Bolme, Angel McCoy, and Christopher E. Wolf. Operation: Nightside (1997)