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Brian Lumley - Necroscope 5 - Deadspeak

Brian Lumley
Necroscope 5 - Deadspawn V1.0
ISBN 0-586-20905-0



When Harry put his hand on her clay-cold brow she recoiled as from a serpent! Not
physically, for she was dead, but her mind cringed, shrank down, withdrew into itself like
the feathery fronds of some strange sea anemone brushed by a swimmer. The Necroscope
felt his blood turn to ice and for a moment stood in horror of himself. The last thing he'd
wanted was to frighten her still more. Wrapping her in his thoughts, in the warmth of his
deadspeak, he said: It's all right! Don't be afraid! I won't hurt you! No one can ever hurt
you again! It was as easy as that. Without even trying, he'd told her that she was dead. But
in the next moment he saw that she had already known: KEEP OFF! Her deadspeak was a
sobbing shriek of torment in Harry's mind. GET AWAY FROM ME, YOU FILTHY . . .
THING!




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Harry Keogh inherited the psychic skills of his mother and grandmother, which in him
have evolved to unparalleled heights of parapsychological power. He is a Necroscope: he
talks to the dead like other men talk to their friends and neighbours. And indeed the
teeming dead are Harry's friends, for he is the one light in their eternal darkness, their only
contact with the world they have left behind.
For the common perception of death is incorrect: the minds of the dead do not accompany
their bodies into corruption and dust but go on to explore the myriad possibilities of their
leanings which were unattainable in life. The writers continue to 'write' great works that
can never be published; the architects design fabulous, near-perfect cities which will never
be built; the mathematicians explore Pure Number to exponentials whose only boundary is
infinity.


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As a boy Harry utilized his esoteric 'talent' to help with his studies; since he himself did not
appear academically inclined, certain of his deceased specialist friends were able to show
him the short cuts around otherwise impossible classroom problems. As a result of which
he discovered his own affinity for instinctive or intuitive maths.
Harry Keogh was not the only one who 'talked' to the dead. In the USSR the Soviet E-
Branch (ESP-Branch) made use of Boris Dragosani, a necromancer, to tear the secrets of
corpses from their violated bodies. But where Harry was beloved of the Great Majority,