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I'm not sure if anyone else out there is a Lumley fan, but I am. I started with his novel Necroscope, and have continued on through a great many of his works.
One thing I know I'm missing is his Psycomech trilogy, but I have plans to eventually rectify that.
Anyway, the reason I'm starting this now, is that I just learned that he'll be publishing a new Necroscope novel in the not-too-distant future. Necroscope: Harry and the Pirates is currently showing on Amazon as having a release date of 2 March 2009. Huzzah!
Yeah, I like some of his stuff. The Necroscope books were pretty good, at least through the first three. I also liked 'Demogorgon' pretty well. Haven't read much else of his works but I've thought about picking up some of his other stuff...
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Yeah, I like some of his stuff. The Necroscope books were pretty good, at least through the first three. I also liked 'Demogorgon' pretty well. Haven't read much else of his works but I've thought about picking up some of his other stuff...
I enjoyed Demogorgon as well. I'd also recommend his Primal Land series: House of Cthulhu, Tarra Khash:Hrossak, and Sorcery in Shad. Or, perhaps his Dreamlands series: Hero of Dreams, Ship of Dreams, Mad Moon of Dreams, and Iced on Aran (although I've only read the first three).
I read the Necroscope books years ago...they were good. A thrash band I was in wrote a song about them called "Faethor" in 1990 (!) originally it was called "the hunger" but we reworked it after being inspired by Lumley. Someday I'm going to have to convert that from cassette to digital, it was our Opus magnum-13 minutes long. ahh....the good old days...lemomade, apple pie, and,
"Father of all death from which ye were born, kept vile secret, untouched, untorn.
Inwrought in the depths of hidden black forest, crossed over boundaries of life, now divorced......"
Brings a tear to my eye... *sigh*
Of all the many and varied different variations and theme that have been done with the Vampire, Lumley's take is perhaps one of the most fascinating (and disgusting). Wamphyri are evil black slugs that latch onto your brain stem and infect you with a metamorphic parasitic regenerative disease. Corrupt and depraved beyond words, there is nothing noble or romantic about them.
Thibor Ferenczy would take one look at Lestat, and eat his heart right out of his chest.