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her vampire she was nothing but a pretty, empty girl. Where was her power, her freedom,
her raw, unfettered Wamphyri spirit now? Gone.
And when Harry awoke from his exhaustion, gone too was Karen!
From on high he saw her body wrapped in the white sheath she wore for a gown, bloody
and broken on the flanks of her aerie, where she had thrown herself down from the
uppermost levels.
The Dweller saw what his father had done, and knew why. If Harry Sr had found a cure for
Karen, he might well have applied the principle to Harry Jr, too. Fearing that one day his
father might return to Starside with just such a 'cure', The Dweller used his superior
vampire powers to reduce Harry's skills to nothing. He took away his deadspeak (his
ability to talk to the dead) and also his numeracy. And then he returned Harry Keogh, ex-
Necroscope, to his own world, the world of men . . .
Forbidden to speak to the dead - a rule he must obey or else suffer terrible mental and
physical agony - and denied the use of the M├╢bius Continuum as a result of his enforced
innumeracy, Harry Keogh was as close as he had ever been to being a 'normal' man.
Which, after what he had known, equated almost to a prefrontal lobotomy. He had been the
Necroscope - and was now powerless.
But although incapable of conscious communication with the teeming dead, still they
could speak to him in his dreams. And their message was monstrous. Another Great
Vampire had come to stalk the world!
Harry had dedicated himself to the eradication of vampirism; but what could he, ex-
Necroscope, do now? As the world's foremost expert on vampires, he could at least advise.
He must do something, for unless he and E-Branch found the vampire first, then sooner or
later the undead monster would surely find him! For Harry had grown into a legend: he
was the vampire-slayer, and locked in his 'crippled' mind were all the secrets of the Great
Majority and mathematical formulae governing the M├╢bius Continuum itself. If the born-
again monster should use its necromancy to steal his forbidden metaphysical talents . . . the
result would be unthinkable!
The dead, forbidden to talk to Harry except in his dreams, rallied to him. They used other
methods to get their messages across: to tell him that a vampire was at work in the islands

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of the Aegean. Once more in league with E-Branch, Harry Keogh and the girl who loved
him went out to the Mediterranean to see what could be done.
But two British espers had already been vampirized and their esoteric talents added to
those of Janos Ferenczy, the bloodson of Fa├йthor and 'brother' to Thibor, the old Thing In
The Ground. Janos was back to reclaim his territories and dig up again certain antique
treasure-hoards which he himself had long ago buried as a safeguard against the changes
which centuries of immobility in undeath would bring, treasures which would lie lost in
the earth until his planned 'resurrection'. These preparations had been made back in the
fifteenth century, when Janos had known that his powerful vampire father, Fa├йthor, was
returning again to Wallachia after almost three hundred years of bloodthirsty adventuring
with the Crusaders, then with Genghis Khan, and finally with the Moslems. For Fa├йthor
hated Janos and would try to 'kill' him (as he had already put down his brother, Thibor,
undead into the earth), for which reason Janos had made these provisions against an
uncertain future.
When Harry saw what he was up against with Janos, and after the vampire had taken
Harry's woman for his own, then he knew he must somehow regain his dead-speak and his