HEADS UP READERS: For a 3 star rating, this rant review contain's a higher concentration of I'm so pissed than you might expect. The reason: there's a 250 to 300 page 5 star gem in here just begging on its paper knees to sparkle but it’s being rooster-blocked big time by another 250 pages of mind...
If you think what you've seen so far is unpleasant, what you're about to see is far worse!This is a longish review, because, frankly, it can hardly be anything but. As the very title of this novel suggests, this is where the Vampire theme of the Necroscope series starts coming into its own. The f...
For about the past six years or so, I've been a visitor to BrianLumley's vampire world. It hasn't taken me this long because of the availability of the novels, but because I'm bent on making each novel in this series an annual treat.The Necroscope series has done what has seemed to be the impossi...
“Deadspeak” was one of my favorite Necroscope stories. I’ve been reading the books in chronological order, so I’ve spent the last few months read about all of Harry’s adventures during the Los Years. Pirates, alien forest monsters, the plague bearer, the Mobius murders, etc. I’ve been dying to ge...
As a former resident of Manitoba, I felt a certain kinship to the settings described (COOOOLLLD!), especially to the Canadian placenames with which I am familiar. As an avid fan of the Call of Cthulhu RPG, I felt for the characters' helplessness as Ithaquoa, the main villain laughs off their vain...
The Psychomech series consists of 3 books:PsychomechPsychospherePsychamokI found these to be a bit scattered when reading them but entertaining all the same.Plot ***Spoilers***Richard Garrison is a corporal in the Royal Military Police who is disturbed by repeated nightmares involving a silver ca...
Well, it's a sad day.After seven outings with Lumley's one-of-a-kind vampires, I'm afraid this is where it ends for me.The Last Aerie is pretty much a setup for the last in the Vampire World trilogy, where a war between our world and theirs seems inevitable. Sadly, I've ceased to care, given that...
I'm attempting to read Brian Lumley's Mythos series in some kind of chronological order, so I haven't read all of the stories collected here yet, but I've read enough to know that this is a decent collection. Titus Crow is an occult investigator in the vein of Flaxman Low, John Silent, Carnacki a...
