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  Finally, at Janos’s castle in the Zarandului Mountains of Transylvania, Harry recovered his powers in full, returned Janos to dust, and committed the spirit of Faethor to an eternity of emptiness and utter loneliness in the infinite future time-streams of the Möbius Continuum.

  But his victory was not without cost.

  Strange urges are part of Harry now, and stranger hungers. His life-thread unwinds as before into the unending future of Möbius time. Except … where once that life-thread was pure blue, as are the threads of all entirely human beings, now it is tinged with red!

  TOR BOOKS BY BRIAN LUMLEY

  The Necroscope Series

  Necroscope

  Necroscope: Vamphyri!

  Necroscope: The Source

  Necroscope: Deadspeak

  Necroscope: Deadspawn

  Blood Brothers

  The Last Aerie

  Bloodwars

  Necroscope: The Lost Years

  Necroscope: Resurgence

  Necroscope: Invaders

  Necroscope: Defilers

  Necroscope: Avengers

  The Titus Crow Series

  Titus Crow Volume One: The Burrowers Beneath & Transition

  Titus Crow Volume Two: The Clock of Dreams & Spawn of the Winds

  Titus Crow Volume Three: In the Moons of Borea & Elysia

  The Psychomech Trilogy

  Psychomech

  Psychosphere

  Psychamok

  Other Novels

  Demogorgon

  The House of Doors

  Maze of Worlds

  Short Story Collections

  Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi

  The Whisperer and Other Voices

  Beneath the Moors and Darker Places

  Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes!

  This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or a used fictitiously.

  NECROSCOPE: DEADSPAWN

  Copyright © 1991 by Brian Lumley

  All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.

  A Tor Book

  Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

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  Tor® is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC.

  eISBN 9781466817746

  First eBook Edition : May 2012

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Lumley, Brian

  Necroscope: deadspawn / Brian Lumley.

  p. cm.

  “A Tom Doherty Associates book.”

  1. Keogh, Harry (Fictitious characters)—Fiction. 2. Vampires—Fiction. I. Title.

  PR6062.U45D43 2003

  823’914—dc22

  2003057062

  First Mass Market Edition: October 1991

  First Hardcover Edition: December 2003