"Brian Lumley - Necroscope 10 - Lost Years 02 - Resurgence" - читать интересную книгу автора (Lumley Brian) A SOFT SOUND, AS OF SOIL CRUMBLING, BEHIND HIM ...
The thing would sneak up on him. Oh so slowly, Daham Drakesh turned his head on its scrawny neck and looked back and down. A mound of dirt was forming, pushing up from the loose, lumpy floor. And in a moment a small eruption, when a leprous grey-green tentacle or pseudopod pulsed up into view. It thickened, swaying like some weird subterranean cobra, and formed a rudimentary eye in its tip. What the thing saw, if it 'saw' or 'recognized' or 'remembered' anything at all in the accepted sense of those words, Drakesh couldn't say. But what it sensed was food! The food in his lap . . . or perhaps Drakesh himself. The tentacle thickened more yet, and he felt a creeping, shuddering, threatening motion in the earth all around. Then the eye dissolved, reforming into faceless gaping jaws and twin rows of nightmarish teeth! The swaying increased, the earth trembled violently, and the drooling jaws came ever closer. The thing was on the point of striking when Drakesh turned abruptly towards it тАФ тАФ And smiled... ! Also by Brian Lumley in New English Library paperback Dagon's Bell and Other Discords The Second Wish and Other Exhalations Necroscope: the Lost Years: Volume 1 Necroscope: The Lost Years Brian Lumley Volume II About the author Brian Lumley is the internationally bestselling author of the Necroscope and Vampire World series. A career British Army Military Policeman for over twenty years, he has been a full-time writer since leaving the army. He lives in Torquay, South Devon. NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY Hodder and Stoughton Copyright ┬й 1996 by Brian Lumley First published in Great Britain in 1996 by Hodder and Stoughton First published in paperback in 1997 by Hodder and Stoughton A division of Hodder Headline PLC A New English Library paperback The right of Brian Lumley to be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 |
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