Necroscope: Invaders

Necroscope: E-Branch Trilogy

De: Brian Lumley

Narrado por: Joshua Saxon

Three great vampires - two Lords and a Lady - arrive on an unsuspecting Earth that teems with defenseless humans, easy prey for the marauding vampires. But humanity has defenders. Though the Necroscope is gone, the psychically gifted men and women of E-Branch move swiftly against the vampire infestation.

Jake Cutter is running for his life through the streets of Turin when he vanishes, appearing moments later inside the triply locked "Harry's room" in E-Branch's London HQ. Jake's dreams are very strange, filled with the voices of the dead - the Great majority, the Necroscope, Harry Keogh, even a dead vampire. He hears them all, but he doesn't truly understand.

If Jake is the new Necroscope, he has to learn - fast! - how to control his powers and speak to the dead. E-Branch, with the reluctant Jake along for the ride, is about to go head to head with Malinari the Mind, a vampire Lord who psychic abilities are second to none.

But the dead don't trust Jake, not like they trusted Harry. Jake's got personal revenge on his mind, and he's spending too much time talking that dead vampire. He's got to start thinking about the future - or he won't have one!

©2011 Brian Lumley (P)2021 David N. Wilson

Incubus of the Mythos

Joshua Saxon ONCE AGAIN gives me the chills and thrills that I look for in his narration of another masterpiece of the Lovecraftian genre, the terror of the unknown mixed with the massive saga of the Necroscope legend.

His voice is perfection in reading the prose of horror that is Master Lumley's world.

Chapter by chapter his voice will penetrate your brain and make you turn your head, knowing that one of the old ones is watching you from the corners and are ready to ruin your life at the end of the narration. The wealth of knowledge contained within about the world, the world of the Vampires, their legends, their myths, and their incubus will give you the chills that give you enough for warning of what to do should these pages come to life!

Top Marks

This was Mr. Saxon's best performance yet. This was an amazing narration and novel.

Excellent but…

Overall excellent book (it goes for whole series) but for one thing nagging at me everytime i heard it. And it was narrators misspronounciation of “Ferenczy” like “Ferenkzi” which is utter nonsense and it should be read as if the “c” was silent not as “k”. Same goes for “Dacha” which for some reason (although written phonetically correct for english speaker) narrator decided to go in exactly the opposite direction and read “ch” as slavic reader would, not realizing that in russian its “dača”, so only thing he was supposed to do was pronounce it as it was written for english speaker and not trying to be inventive and mess it up in the process.

New Trilogy Action Horror Soft in Middle

The narration here continues to be strong and makes the audiobook feel like the way to go. A more squad based approach to Necroscope as E-branch comes into focus (returning from the original trilogy; and Necroscope returning to Earth) to hunt three vampires setting up a new trilogy that starts off strong and ends well. There is more focus on new characters with revenge plots and some of the older/returning characters are less central, to facilitate this the middle involved a bit of backtracking (reading Ebranch files and old man Lardis in the parallel world) that sometimes felt mispaced with new situations/characters, flashing back to novel past events, but without a lot of the action that so well bookends Invaders. A main character Jake is unlikeable so that requires some patience but the special ability focus of the team here is fun and Lumley does well at constructing vampire mythos.

Necroscope Invaders

This is another engaging story in the world of the Necroscope. With a mix of familiar and new characters we get to see the fight against the evil Vampires continue in this first book of the E-branch trilogy. Jake is thrown into this world and he must fight his way through it all. I am a fan of Harry Keogh and am interested in how Jake will fill his shoes. I enjoyed the continuation of the world that the author has created. There is a good mix of action and emotion to this story. We get to see the strength of the humans as they fight for our world against the evil of another. Narrator Joshua Saxon does a good job of bringing everything to life and I was quickly immersed in the story.