Necroscope: Invaders

Necroscope: E-Branch Trilogy

By: Brian Lumley

Narrated by: Joshua Saxon

Length: 19 hrs and 52 mins

Publisher's summary

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!

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.

Top Marks

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

Five stars for writing and performance

Brian Lumley's Necroscope series is truly a unique experience of horror and it is made even more so when read by Joshua Saxon. His narration is flawless and lilting while also sending a chill up your spine. I enjoy his narration as much as James Langton's if not more!

awesome

super exciting tale was a real page turner can't wait for the next one. I'm hooked