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ramshackle house some miles outside Edinburgh.
Then . . . E-Branch contacted him again. They were badly in need of Harry's help and
guessed he'd be reluctant, but there was also a carrot. The Branch had a similar case on its
hands: a Secret Service agent had gone missing, not presumed dead. Just like Harry Jr and
his mother, so now a young spy had disappeared into thin air. The mindspies had reason to
believe he was alive, but still they couldn't find him. Harry checked it out with the Great
Majority, who denied that the missing man had joined their ranks. And yet E-Branch swore
that he wasn't 'here' on Earth. So ... where was he?
Could it be he was in the same place as the Necroscope's wife and child?
Eventually Harry's inquiries led him to the Perchorsk Projekt, a Russian experiment buried
deep in a ravine under the Ural Mountains. In an attempt to create a force-field barrier as a
counter to the USA's Star Wars scenario, the Soviets had accidentally blasted a 'wormhole'
out of this space-time dimension into a parallel plane of existence. And in so doing they
had also discovered the ancient source of all vampiric infestation of Earth! Things were
coming through the Perchorsk Gate into our world. Unbelievable things - unbelievable
except to the Necroscope and certain members of the British and Soviet E-Branches.
Through his contacts with the dead, and especially with the assistance of August Ferdinand
M├╢bius, Harry discovered a second Gate and used it to venture into the world of the
Wamphyri, whose skyscraper aeries gloomed gaunt and nightmarish over all Starside, the
world where the vampire Lords held sway. There he discovered his son, grown now to a
young man, but, alas, infected with vampirism!
Known as The Dweller in this weird parallel world, Harry Jr had so far managed to hold
his vampire metamorphosis in check; he commanded a small band of Travellers (the
original Gypsies), and a regiment of 'trogs', the aboriginal men of Starside. But his enemies
were monstrous and far outnumbered him. Only his 'magic' - his mastery of the M├╢bius
Continuum, and of superior science - had so far kept him safe. But under the guidance of
the great and sinister Lord Shaithis, the warlike Wamphyri had recently put aside all
personal grievances and banded together into an awesome, alien army. Jealous of The
Dweller, his garden and works, they would move in unison against him.
The two Harrys must stand alone against this force of monsters, else total Wamphyri
domination of Star- and Sunside would become a grim and horrific reality. But they did
not stand entirely alone; in the bloody battle for The Dweller's garden, the Lady Karen
joined sides with them. A vampire, indeed Wamphyri, Karen was as beautiful as she was

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clever. She could read the minds of the vampire Lords and forecast their every move. Still
Shaithis and his fellow Lords, their lieutenants, and all the vast and terrible warrior-
creatures they had created from the flesh of men and trogs alike must surely have won the
battle . . . had it not been for the awesome powers of the Necroscope and his son.
Using the raw light of the sun itself, the garden's defenders defeated Shaithis's vampire
army, and went on to level the towering stacks of stone and bone which were the aeries of
the Wamphyri. All except Karen's, who had been their ally . . .
Afterwards, Harry Keogh visited Karen in the grimly forbidding aerie which was her
place. She was not long a vampire; the thing within her had not yet gained full ascendancy;
if the Necroscope could drive out her vampire and destroy it ... perhaps there was yet a
chance for Harry Jr.
Harry's method was crude, cruel, even brutal - but hideously effective. Except . . . how
could he have foreseen the consequences? Karen had been Wamphyri! And now? Without