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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
Fantasy Horror Fiction Scary Paranormal

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I love the entire Necroscope series (and all of Lumley's work for that matter) and I was looking forward to listening to the Audio books, The first 3 books were Narrated amazingly by James Langton but the Narration by Michael Troughton is just awful. The accents are terrible and the performance is just shockingly bad

Great book but horrible Narrator

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Narration very poor compared to previous books. Some characterisations almost laughable. Spoiled a good storyline, narrators voice does not suit subject matter.

Poor Narration

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I love the Necroscope books, read them multiple times over the years. When i saw they were on audible i started at the end, so to speak, with the Lost Years collections, perfectly narrated by Joshua Saxon. Then, back to the beginning.

The first three, read by James Langton, were great. Then comes pt:IV Deadspeak...yeah. A fantastic read, no question. This narration though, how totally and completely irritating. 'Wamfry'. Every time that wamfry was said i caught myself shaking my head and silently cursing. So many other pronunciation issues too. The narration was genuinely annoying.

The voices of characters were...interesting. Evil incarnate, Faethor and Janos certainly had kindly old Santa vibes. Several characters were delivered in full monty python style. Mr Troughton is a decent actor and I've no doubt narrates other works extremely well, possibly aimed at children. Not this. In movie parlance, the casting here was epically wrong.

I note Joshua Saxon takes over mid Vampire World, so obviously I'll stick it through. What readers/listeners new to the Necroscope world make of this novel would make for interesting reading.

Novel: fantastic
Narration: nah

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Faethor Christmas

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Harry Keo’s voice wavered from Terry Thomas to Basil Brush and even K9!
Far too camp! and I’ve got to put up with him for another two books.
I’m disappointed but I’ve committed now.

Good story ruined by narrator!

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I have always loved the necroscope series the story’s and characters are soo well written however when I started listening to this one I am struggling to get over his miss pronunciation of whamphiri to wamfrey it is soo frustrating and there’s his voices there just to camp or just sounding like a dithering old man I don’t think a vampire would sound like a dithering old boy bring bk the original narrator

Narrator let down

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