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they feared and loathed Dragosani. The difference was this: where the Necroscope merely
conversed with the dead, befriending and consoling them, and asking nothing in return, the
Russian necromancer simply reached in and took\ Having been instructed in his obscene
talent by a long-buried but still undead vampire, whose seed had been passed on to him,
nothing could be hidden from Dragosani: he would find his answers in the blood, the guts,
the very marrow of his victims' bones. In all other instances the dead can't feel pain - but
that was part of Dragosani's talent, too. For when he worked he made them feel it! They
felt his hands, his knives, his tearing nails; they knew and felt everything he did to them! It
was never his way simply to question the dead for their secrets, for then they might lie to
him. No, his way was to rend them apart and then read the answers in torn skin and
muscle, in shredded ligaments and tendons, in brain fluid and the mucus of eye and ear,
and in the very texture of the dead tissue itself!
. . . While avenging the cruel death of his murdered mother, Harry Keogh became aware of
the existence of the ESP-agencies of East and West. Recruited to the aid of British ESP-
Intelligence in the secret war with Russia's mindspies, he pitted himself against Boris
Dragosani. And now his intuitive maths came into play.
With the assistance of August Ferdinand M├╢bius (1790-1868) Harry gained access to the
M├╢bius Continuum, a fifth dimension running parallel not only to the mundane four but to
all other material planes. He could now in effect 'teleport' instantly to anywhere in the
world, just as long as he had the mathematical co-ordinates or a dead friend in that location
to act as a beacon. In addition, he had discovered his terrible power to call up the dead
from their graves!
To rid the world of the vampire Dragosani, Harry used the M├╢bius Continuum to invade
the Chateau Bronnitsy, Russia's secluded E-Branch HQ. There he called up from death an
army of mummified Tartars whose bodies had been preserved by the peaty ground.
Dragosani was destroyed, and along with him many of the staff and much of the apparatus
of the Soviet mindspy agency.
But Harry paid the price too, and his body was also destroyed. Except . . .
... As the Necroscope knew well enough from personal experience, death is not the end.
Incorporeal, pure mind, he escaped to the M├╢bius Continuum and later, by involuntary
metempsychosis, came to 'inhabit' the brain-dead body of a British esper. By then,
however, Harry had also come to realize the role he must play in the eradication of
vampire spawn from the world of men. This recognition of his purpose (his destiny?) came
about through the discovery of a vampire's scarlet thread among the pure blue life-threads
of humanity where they permeate the past and future time-lanes of the M├╢bius Continuum.
Yulian Bodescu, contaminated with vampirism by Thibor Ferenczy - the same centuries-

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dead vampire who infected Dragosani - threatened both Harry's life and the life of his baby
son. But this time it was Harry Jr who turned the tables and made possible Bodescu's
destruction; for he too was born a Necroscope, with talents the same as (or greater than?)
those possessed by his father.
Following the Bodescu affair, Harry Jr vanished (apparently from the face of the Earth)
and took his poor demented mother with him. Harry Sr, searching far and wide for his wife
and infant son, despaired of ever finding them: in the M├╢bius Continuum their life-threads
disappeared mysteriously into some otherworldly place where even he could not follow.
Harry quit British E-Branch and devoted himself to his search, which soon became an
obsession. Years passed and the Necroscope turned recluse, living in a rambling,