Hello Lumley Fans

 

First, allow me to express just how honored and excited I am to be a member of this fine community. It is a rare opportunity--at least, in my experience--to casually encounter another Lumley Fan let alone any significant number of us. It is my hope that my membership here amongst you fans will generate meaningful bonds, forged through a mutual affection for the Keoghverse, and even more meaningful discussions.

 

I believe it proper to provide some information about myself; after all, how else would I generate the bonds spoken of above? My name is Ivan. I'm a United States (but, occassionally, the Mobius Continuum) resident and I suffer from an acute lack of humor ability as evidence by the previously mentioned joke. My interest in the Keoghverse was brought about by one of the only vices that I have above the Necroscope series, the vampire and all of his/her associated lore. I've delved into it all, from the romanticism of Anne Rice to the works of Laurek K. Hamilton with her more contemporary flair for the undead. Still, Lumley's contribution to the lore satisfies me in a way that Rice or Hamilton or even Stoker (okay, I admit that may be stretching it a tad) couldn't.

 

Though I love Lestat to death--or undeath, whichever--I confess that I do sometimes grow tired of his, and by extention every Ricean vampire's, vampiric condition. He uses his enhanced senses to constantly describe the texture, the aesthetics, the scent, the luminesence, the utter sensuality...of a button.........or any other object that may catch his preternatural eye. Since Interview With A Vampire, I've understood that the vampire of that verse is equipped with an enhanced perception of their surroundings and, yes, it is is enjoyable to be reminded of such talents...but not in every installment of the Chronicles!

 

Hamilton's vampires, despite their vibrant personalities and alluring characterizations, remind me all-too-often of the vampire stereotype. Her vampires are often dressed in antiquated dress, her vampires are often very hypnotic in their beauty, her vampires are often endowed with European accents, her vampires are often disturbingly beautiful, her vampires are often.........REDUNDANT.

 

And while Lumley's vampire must possess a certain redundancy for consistency, I never grow tired of the Wamphri. They are cold, calloused, powerful, grotesque, fearsome, territorial, loathsome creatures, stripped entirely of the Ricean sentiment and the Hamilton "Vladism." These vampires conform to what the vampire should truly be--a monster that haunts our most terrifying nightmares, not the immortal that cries at the sunset.

 

Lastly, as I realize that my post grows too long for an introduction , I'd like to cite the amazing quantum mechanics embedded in the Keoghverse as yet another reason for my fandom of said verse. Physics has always been interesting to me (to the point where I've chosen it as my major); it's always delightful to read a work that incorporates so much admittedly theoretical physics!

 

Again, I rejoice in being here.

 

---The Vampirologist

Welcome C of C it's nice to have you aboard. Glad you like the theoretical physics, I do too, I've just bought a book on the mathematics myself ( I love numbers and maths - yes I know it's weird lol).

Anyway, enjoy the new board :grin:

Good of you to introduce yourself, Child. May your life within the board be interesting!!

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‘Bow to Leper Messiah’

Spike – The Uncivil Servant @ Taunton

Well that is an introduction, welcome!

 

I too enjoy Rice but she does go on a bit, too much attention to the wallpaper and not enough action, I also like L K Hamilton, entertaining and fun, but Lumley is the Master!

Welcome Childe of Caine, hope you will stick around as there are lots of ''interesting '' fellow Lumlians here

COC, do ya like the way Kenny said "interesting"? Heh heh heh. Of course, what he really means is Barking Mad!! Woof woof! :D

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‘Bow to Leper Messiah’

Spike – The Uncivil Servant @ Taunton

Welcome to the forums!

 

Speaking of maths.. some of the old timers here will remember the April/May 2000 issue of the Necroscope News when Brian gave us a challenge of the Ultimate 8x8 box!

 

I was close I think, but a Lumlian named Steven A. Golen won the contest with Brian also putting up the Official Master Solution from Harry.

 

Heh heh maybe one of the new Lumlians might want to try it out...

 

Try this one:

 

A big square is made up of 64 smaller squares (a four-inch square, equally divided into 64 half-inch squares). The numbers that will fit in these boxes are, obviously, 1 to 64. Put them in order so that the sum of each horizontal and vertical line, and of the two diagonals, all come out to the same total.

 

If you remember, Harry did this in Necroscope with a simple 4 X 4 square. Maybe that will give you a clue, right?

 

Heh heh, I had a board and numbered squares in the middle of the floor for ages trying to get the perfect square!

Never mind the newbies, I must have missed that myself I'll have to give it a go I love things like that :grin:

heh ehh it was fun! I think most of us tried to get it. To bad I lost my original results..lol, but it was in 2000!

 

EDIT: Oh and you must try it with pets too.. they were alot of help with everything on the floor...

Welcome on board Caine.

 

I at one time knew the solution to the above puzzle

sdkdmd, you can see Brian's solution and the winners from the newsletter.. just look at the June/July 2000 issue.

Welcome C of C hope you enjoy yourself here.

 

Cheers