Copyright © 1996 by Brian Lumley

Cover Illustration by George Underwood

ISBN: 0-340-64964-x

Published by Hodder and Stoughton

Copyright © 1996 by Brian Lumley

Jacket Design by Carol Russo

ISBN: 0-312-85948-1

Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.

They came between Wamphyri! and The Source, earlier novels in Brian Lumley's internationally best-selling series of embattled humanity's struggle against the most horrific plague of vampires ever spawned. From the Necroscope Harry Keogh's point of view, the missing years were empty, dead - or perhaps undead? Under mental restrictions imposed by E-Branch, beguiled by Bonnie Jean Mirlu, a fledgling Lady of the Wamphyri, Harry is a man of two minds, a split personality. But more than this - as a man revitalized in another man's body - he is the classic schizophrenic.

On the other hand, Radu Lykan is a man - or a monster - of two worlds. An original Lord of the Wamphyri, from Starside in an alien vampire world, Radu has lain preserved in resin in a state of suspended animation in his high Cairngorms lair for six-hundred years! Now the time of his return is at hand. Except -

- The dog-Lord has dreamed of a 'Man With Two faces' who will be there in the hour of his resurgence. harry Keogh is that man, in whom Radu will rise up again, resurrected! Problem enough for the Necroscope, without that other vampire survivors - the last Drakul, and the Ferenczys - are also after his blood...

When young Harry Keogh discovered that he was a Necroscope - someone who can communicate with the dead - he was astonished. He grew more astonished as the years passed and his dead friends - the world's great artists, scientists, inventors, and thinkers, not to mention ordinary folks like Harry's own dear, departed ma - bestowed upon him their knowledge and their love. With their help, Harry wrote novels and symphonies, created marvelous inventions, and stretched the boundaries of science, completing projects left unfinished centuries earlier.

He also learned how to transport himself instantaneously through time and space, with the power of his mind alone. But not all the gifts he received were so wonderful. There was terrible knowledge to be had.

Mankind was being preyed upon by terrible vampires who hunted humans for their blood. Some people became victims of macabre "experiments" that rendered them unrecognizable as human beings. Others were kept as servants or playthings.

For centuries the vampires had wrought havoc. Only periodic wars between the monsters had kept them from overrunning the earth. Harry Keogh swore that he would become man's greatest defender, that he would destroy every last vampire.

But the price of this war was high. Many of those Harry loved and respected were corrupted, killed, or lost - including his own wife and son - vanished in the heat of the battle. Harry's search for his family began in Necroscope: The Lost Years. It ends here.