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Wamphyri!
Brian Lumley

Book 2 of the Necroscope Series


Both of Dragosani's legs were broken and lay at weird angles. His arms hung slack down the wall to the skirting, elbows just off the floor, forearms at ninety degrees and hands projecting well beyond the cuffs of his jacket. They were hands like claws, big, powerful and grasping, frozen in Dragosani's final spasm. His face was a rictus of agony, made worse by the fact that it was hardly a human face at all, and worse still by the gash that split his skull ear to ear.
But his face!
Dragosani's jaws were long as some great hound's, gaping open to display curving needle teeth. His skull was misshapen, and his ears were pointed where they curved forward and lay flat against his temples. His eyes were ruptured red pits above a nose long and wrinkled and flattened to show gaping nostrils, like the convoluted snout of some great bat. That was how he looked: part man, part wolf, part bat. And the thing pinned to his chest was worse . . .

By the same author
The Caller of the Black
Beneath the Moors
The Horror at Oakdeene
The Burrowers Beneath
The Transition of Titus Crow
The Clock of Dreams
Spawn of the Winds
In the Moons ofBorea
Khai of Ancient Khem
The House ofCthulhu & Others
Ghoul Warning & Other Omens (poetry)
The Return of the Deep Ones
Hero of Dreams
The Ship of Dreams
Mad Moon of Dreams
The Compleat Crow
Psychomech
Psychosphere
Psychamok!
Necroscope
Demogorgon
Necroscope III: The Source
BRIAN LUMLEY
Necroscope II Wamphyri!
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Copyright й Brian Lumley 1988 ISBN 0-586-20000-2
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For Dave and Pete and all the blokes I met at the House on the Borderland in July 1986. Cheers!

Many and multiform are the dim horrors of Earth, infesting her ways from the prime. They sleep beneath the unturned stone; they rise with the tree from its root; they move beneath the sea and in subterranean places; they dwell in the inmost adyta; they emerge betimes from the shutten sepulchre of haughty bronze and the low grave that is sealed with clay. There be some that are long known to man, and others as yet unknown that abide the terrible latter days of their revealing. Those which are the most dreadful and the loathliest of all are haply still to be declared. But among those that have revealed themselves aforetime and have made manifest their veritable presence, there is one which may not openly be named for its exceeding foulness. It is that spawn which the hidden dweller in the vaults has begotten upon mortality . . .