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THAT A THING LIKE THIS could lift its
massive bulk even an inch from the earth, let
; alone fly, seemed patently impossible; yet here
! it spurted against the star-spattered horizon like
I an alien, aerial slug. Just looking at it, details
were branded on Nathan's feverish mind:
| Of grey-mottled flesh, with fish-scale armour
gleaming metallic-blue in starshine ... of gas-
| bladder clusters bulging like strange wattles or
nests of morbid tumors from both sides of the
segmented, flexible spine, constantly shrinking
and expanding, regulating the monster's bal
ance ... of cartilage hooks, sawing appendages,
and chitin grapples in the shape of crab claws.
But over and above everything else the evil
pseudo-intelligence of its swivelling, searching
saucer eyes in that vastly sloping prow of a
skull!
Only fifty yards away now, it had spotted the three men. Propulsors blasting, the vampire warrior lowered its head and zeroed in on them!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brian Lumley was born in the coal-mining village of Horden, County Durham. At the age of twenty-one, he was called up for National Service and was assigned to the Royal Military Police. He subsequently joined up and in his twenty-two years of service travelled widely.
A devotee of horror and fantasy fiction all his life, he began writing while still in the army in the 1960s and his first stories were published in America. His early influence was that of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos cycle of fiction. After returning to civilian life in 1981, Brian Lumley became a full-time writer and began working on his longer, more ambitious novels: first the Psychomech trilogy, then individual novels such as Demogorgon and House of Doors, culminating in the highly original series of bestselling vampire novels, the five Necroscope books. Blood Brothers and The Last Aerie, also published in ROC, are the first two volumes of this new trilogy, Vampire World, which is a spin-off from the Necroscope series. Bloodwars is the last volume in the trilogy. Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi and Return of the Deep Ones and Other Mythos Tafes are also published in the ROC series.
With more than thirty books and over a hundred short stories published in English, Brian Lumley has also had his work translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese and, most recently, Polish and Czech. His story 'Fruiting Bodies' won the British Fantasy Award for the Best Short Story and he has also been the recipient of Fear Magazine's Award for Necroscope III: The Source.
BRIAN LUMLEY'S VAMPIRE WORLD VOLUME THREE
BLOODWARS

A ROC BOOK

For Steve Jones.
Thanks for giving me the
magic words. You'll note
that I gave them back
... to Zek!
ROC
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First published 1994 13579 10 8642
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