Hi everyone!! I finally joined the site!! I first read Necroscope when I was a Sophomore in High School (circa 1991) and have been a huge Lumley fan ever since. He's my all-time favorite author. I don't know about other places, but here in the U.S. his books can be difficult to find and most people I tell about him have never heard of him ... although I just got one of my co-workers hooked!! heehee

 

I wouldn't say I'm a "collector" as most of my books are paperback ... BUT I do have something I think is kind-of rare, but I'm not sure ...

 

I've got the Malibu Necroscope comics (1-5) released in 1992-1993 (http://www.brianlumley.com/books/necroscope/comic.html). I've got 2 copies of issue one (one standard and the other has a hologram skull on the cover) and 2 copies of issue two (one with a tattoo enclosed). They are my prized possessions

 

Nice meeting you all!!

Hello there, I have two sets of those comics, I don't think they are that rare as you can see them up for auction on Ebay starting as low as 50p. Never actually noticed a finishing price so we might both be surprised

I welcome you to the boards. *bows*

Greetings and salutatons, said the spider. *Bows and kisses hand...* Envious of the comics!!! I have seen them on ebay but have not found a reason to part with the $50+ (US) to have them shipped to my abode... Someday I will treat myself!

Welcome allie. I believe those comics are quite rare, some more than others. I have a couple of them but not the full set, though I am more of a collector of books than comics.

 

Just because you have paperbacks doesn't mean you're not a real collector - we all started somewhere and I still have many more paperbacks than hard covers.

Welcome to the board Allie! Is it mainly Necroscope you read, or do you enjoy any of Mr Lumley's other offerings?

Hello there, I have two sets of those comics, I don't think they are that rare as you can see them up for auction on Ebay starting as low as 50p. Never actually noticed a finishing price so we might both be surprised

 

I got mine on eBay several years ago. I had seen them in a comic book store when I was in high school and didn't buy them for some stupid reason! I never saw them again until years later when I decided to try eBay. I was so excited!!

Welcome to the board Allie! Is it mainly Necroscope you read, or do you enjoy any of Mr Lumley's other offerings?

 

I've read the Necroscope series, Dreamlands, and I have the Khai of Khem, the Titus Crow series, etc. If Lumley wrote it and I can find it, it's mine

Welcome to the board allie

I've read the Necroscope series, Dreamlands, and I have the Khai of Khem, the Titus Crow series, etc. If Lumley wrote it and I can find it, it's mine

 

 

Welcome allie. I like the attitude "If Lumley wrote it and I can find it, it's mine"

Reminds me of me

Hi Allie, Welcome! I like your attitude too; If you can find em, they're yours! Unfortunatley, except for the first 5 Necro books, all Lumley's other series are so very hard to find in Australia! But like the comics, I'm slowly acquiring them all on ebay or Amazon etc..

Hold on to your comics though. While the Malibu editions are still pretty common, they are extremely well drawn (the artist's impression of Faethor in Wampyri II is pretty terrifying!) and may increase in value if a movie is ever made. *fingers crossed* The Caliber press editions which are in B&W are much more difficult to find, especially the 2nd edition with Lady Karen on the cover.

Hi everyone well Im coming to you all here from Ireland, Co Kildare just outside Dublin to be precise, and Ive just literally today started reading 'Necroscope'. It was given to me by a friend of mine who has (to call it an obsession would do it no justice but I shall) an obsession with Vampires. She said that I may enjoy it, its not my normal reading material Im more a detective, crime fighting, kind of girl, but I am prone to paranormal and gruesome and beyond the realms of every day life occurences too, so with that in mind, I started reading.

Anyway the reason I stopped abrubtly to log on and google this website was that Ive just LITERALLy came upon the part in the book where Kinkovsi is explaining the myth, legend if you like of Dracule or Dracula to Boris and he said and I quote lol......the creature is only a character in a story by a clever English man............Bram Stoker was IRISH!!!!!!!!

Ive had this argument with several people right back when I first read Dracula, when I visited the house that Bram Stoker grew up in, in Fairview in Dublin, when I visited the Bram Stoker experience which is directly across the road from the house Bram Stoker grew up in.

There seems to be a common misconception that he was an Englishman. Yes I know that he later emigrated to the UK and when his works became worldwide famous they as they normally though claimed him as their own, but I assure you that he was very much an Irish man from Dublin.

So much so that its been said that when he first drafted Dracula the scene of the whole story the settings were based on Dublin with Dublin place, street names etc, but......the English didnt like that so they told him that in order for it to be published and for his funds to remain he needed to remove Ireland from it altogther, so he came up with Transylvannia, where if you read the descriptions of the area very clearly, they resemble the docks, dark damp streets, houses and areas of Dublin during that time. Its been said that some of the descriptions are so exact they're exactly describing and area near Fairview know as Ballybough, so sorry Brian (I will keep reading necroscope Im enjoying it alot) but for an Englishman you should of know that one of the most famous authors of all time was in fact a Paddy! A true Irishman.....Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Edited October 1, 200817 yr by Romster

Well..but how should Kinkovski know that? It's not Brian say'n that, right? But one of his characters. To know such a thing as a Romanian peasant in times of the Cold War is pretty unlikely, eh?

 

Despite your clumsy first post - still I welcome you to the boards, have a nice time here. Hope you didn't just join to rant.

Edited October 1, 200817 yr by Ilya Sul