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Invaders
By Brian Lumley
E-Branch 1

Also by Brian Lumley
THE CALLER OF THE BLACK
BENEATH THE MOORS
THE HORROR AT OAKDEENE
THE BURROWERS BENEATH
THE TRANSITION OF TITUS CROW
THE CLOCK OF DREAMS
SPAWN OF THE WINDS
IN THE MOONS OF BOREA
ELYSIA
KHAI OF ANCIENT KHEM
THE HOUSE OF CTHULHU AND OTHERS
GHOUL WARNING AND OTHER OMENS
(poefry) RETURN OF THE DEEP ONES
HERO OF DREAMS THE COMPLEAT CROW
PSYCHOMECH PSYCHOSPHERE
PSYCHAMOK!
DEMOGORGON
THE HOUSE OF DOORS
THE HOUSE OF DOORS: SECOND VISIT
NECROSCOPE
NECROSCOPE II: WAMPHRI!
NECROSCOPE III: THE SOURCE
NECROSCOPEIV: DEADSPEAK
NECROSCOPE V: DEADSPAWN
NECROSCOPE: THE LOST YEARS - VOLUME I
NECROSCOPE: THE LOST YEARS - VOLUME II
VAMPIRE WORLD I: BLOOD BROTHERS
VAMPIRE WORLD II: THE LAST AERIE
VAMPIRE WORLD III: BLOOD WARS
FRUITING BODIES AND OTHER FUNGI
DAGON'S BELL AND OTHER DISCORDS
THE SECOND WISH AND OTHER EXHALATIONS
A COVEN OF VAMPIRES


Prologue
In Xanadu, Jethro Manchester had built a pleasure dome, in fact the Pleasure Dome Casino. But that
was some time ago, and since then Manchester's fortunes had changed. Now both the casino and the
mountain resort of Xanadu belonged to another, to Aristotle Milan, and the new resident-owner's
needs required that he make certain alterations.
The casino was a great dome of glass and chrome. It was a three-storey affair - or four-storey, if
one included a smaller dome, which sat like a bubble or a raised blister on top of the main
structure - that lorded its location at Xanadu's hub, on a false plateau in a high, dog-leg fold