Title: Not what you expect...
Product review: What an odd book this is. I grew to like Brian Lumley from his short stories I found in anthologies. They usually focus on small, crawling horrors. Therefore, I decided to give his popular Necroscope series a go.From the creepy cover-art (a decayed but still-living vampire skull), I thought this would be a book about vampires. And it is...and psychics, and espionage, and science fiction, and warfare, and mathematics. Lumley throws everything but the kitchen sink in here. It is held together because Lumley is really good at his craft - he knows how to create characters and scenes and he has one of the best prose styles in horror literature. My main criticism is that he jumps a little too far off the diving board, but that is a matter of taste. Anyone expecting Anne Rice will be disappointed - this is one wild ride.
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