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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 --
-- d 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
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For Sylvia Starshine --
who provided an item of fascinating information Х my thanks and undead gratitude
CONTENTS
THE LOST YEARS, VOL. I: A Resum6 1
PROLOGUE 11