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Necroscope IV: Deadspeak

By: Brian Lumley
Narrated by: Michael Troughton
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Brian Lumley's Necroscope novels are one of the horror genre's most towering achievements. They chronicle the adventures of Necroscope Harry Keogh, his successor, Jake Cutter, and the psychically gifted agents of E-Branch, Britain's super-secret spy organization, and their battles against the malevolent, shape-shifting Wamphyri and their spawn. Their exploits have spanned two worlds, 13 novels, and an infinity of time. The Necroscope novels have sold more than two million copies in English alone.

Harry Keogh has triumphed over much adversity in his life, from the death of his mother and the discovery of his amazing powers - to talk to the dead and to travel instantaneously to any place via the Möbius Continuum - to the fallout from his war against the vampires. He lost his body, though not his life; his wife and infant son disappeared without a trace; and he had to kill a woman he had come to love. What should have been a joyful reunion with his son was tinged with horror when Harry realized that his boy - now a man-was half - Necroscope and half-vampire, and thus a deadly double threat to all mankind. Father faced son in a terrible battle, and when it was over, Harry awoke safe in his own bed, at home...but his Necroscope powers were gone, locked away in the depths of his mind!

Now, a new evil rears its head in the Balkan Mountains. Janos Ferenczy, master vampire and black magician, has risen from an ages-long sleep. As the first step in his plans of conquest, he conjures dead men and women into a perverse semblance of life and subjects them to fiendish tortures. But the shrieks of the dead barely begin to satisfy Janos's bloodlusts as he prepares an army of undead warriors to conquer the world.

The dead try desperately to attract the Necroscope's attention, but Harry Keogh is deaf to their pleas and their screams. As Harry searches for a cure, he learns that to save mankind he must ally himself with the crafty father of vampires, the infamous Faethor Ferenczy. Centuries dead, Faethor lies in his grave and schemes. He will help Harry defeat Janos - but his price will be very high indeed!

©1992 Brian Lumley (P)2019 David N. Wilson
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I love this series of books so much however I just could not like the narrator. All of the pronunciation of key names, locales, accents were drastically off. So bad that by Chapter 11 enough was enough...Faethor, scourge of the 11th century, master vampire was granted all the malice and terror in his voice as a 1980s Microsoft Engineer....who's just been sacked....on their birthday.....

Sorry narrator but you really should have researched or at least listened to the previous versions held on Audible and at least made an attempt to ensure continuity of accents and tone.

Disappointed fan, better luck on the next in the series I hope?

Poor Narration

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I’ve really enjoyed the first three audiobooks in the Necroscope series. So I was looking forward to this one.

However, I am very disappointed with this latest audiobook.

Please don’t get me wrong. The story is as good as the previous ones. What completely lets this one is the dreadful narration.

The performance of the narrator is terrible. He makes a terrible blood sucking vampire sound camp.

Add to that he constantly refers to Vamphyri as Wampree. To make things worse he mispronounces characters names too.

Surely he should have listened to the previous audiobooks before narrating this one?

I’m probably going to listen to the future audiobooks. I just need to find a way of ignoring the rubbish narration.

I was expecting so much but left very disappointed

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Why does the narrator make the characters sound like 6 year old children? Every time there is some sort of dialogue the intonation is what I imagine arguments in pre-school sound.
Sorry if this seems harsh but it's the truth. It's one of the greatest horror books and it's narrated as if it's a children's book.

Amazing book, horrible narration

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The previous 3 installments were expertly narrated by James Langton who treated the material with just the right mix of serious and camp.
Michael Troughton, the new narrator, carries over no consistency. Names and places are pronounced very differently, and he tends toward the silly and ridiculous, undercutting the more mature aspects.

Obviously, a new narrator is going to inject his own narrative style but there's too jarring a shift the breaks immersion.

New narrator is a let down

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Whoever thought using a narrator made a massive mistake because I can’t see myself purchasing the other books following this debacle.
The negatives have already been highlighted in other reviews, so no need in my regurgitating any of these, but it would serve the publisher well if they brought James Langton - or a narrator of equal superiority - back.

Narration was a huge letdown

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