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Psychosphere
Psychamok!
Necroscope II: Wamphyri!
Necroscope III: The Source
Demogorgon


BRIAN LUMLEY


Necroscope
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Copyright ┬й Brian Lumley 1986 ISBN 0-586-06665-9
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Prologue

The hotel was big and rather famous, ostentatious if not downright flamboyant, within easy walking
distance of Whitehall, and . . . not entirely what it seemed to be. Its top floor was totally given over to
a company of international entrepreneurs, which was the sum total of the hotel manager's
knowledge about it. The occupants of that unknown upper region had their own elevator at the rear
of the building, private stairs also at the rear and entirely closed off from the hotel itself, even
their own fire escape. Indeed they - 'they' being the only identification one might reasonably apply in
such circumstances -owned the top floor, and so fell entirely outside the hotel's sphere of control
and operation. Except that from the outside looking in, few would suspect that the building in total was
anything other than what it purported to be; which was exactly the guise or aspect - or lack of such -
which 'they' wished to convey.
As for the 'international entrepreneurs' - whatever such creatures might be - 'they' were not. In
fact they were a branch of Government, or more properly a subsidiary body. Government supported