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 This one,
with affection, is for
the pair who accompanied me
in my "grave" search for Môbius
in Leipzig: Frank "Uncle" Festa,
and Helmi Sigg; also for all
KeoghConners, past, present,
and future.
nECROSCDPE ®



THE TOUCH
 A RESUME OF SORTS



At 3:33 A.M. on a wild and rainy Sunday in mid-February 1990, thir-
teen members of E-Branch—the strangest, most esoteric of England's
several Secret Services—experienced something that astonished even
them-, the destruction of a man who was once one of their own, but no
longer. They experienced, in fact, the death of Harry Keogh, Necro-
scope, transmitted to E-Branch HQ via some fantastic and unknown
psychic medium from a world in a parallel universe, a world known
only as Sunside/Starside.
Harry had gone there to escape the persecution and death—though
not necessarily his death—which must surely follow if he remained in the
world of men. For no longer a man, other and far more than a man, ordi-
nary mortals would attempt to hunt him down because of what he had
become as a result of his selfless services to mankind: a Great Vampire, a
Lord of the Undead, the last of a race of beings who called themselves
Wamphyri!
Neither an old wives' tale nor a grotesque myth, since time immemorial
these Great Vampires had hidden among us, preying on men and secretly
inhabiting our planet—but their source-world was Sunside/Starside. As to
how they came here:
Certain Wamphyri Lords—"victims" in their own right, the van-
quished of Starside bloodwars—had been banished through a worm-