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colleague, the Mongol Max Batu, to learn the secret of his evil eye. The necromancer could now kil at a glance!
    Time was short; Harry must follow the vampire back to the USSR, to Soviet E-Branch Headquarters at the Chateau Bronnitsy south of Moscow, and there put him down … but how? A British ‘precog’ - an esper whose talent enabled him to scan fragments of the future - had foreseen the Necroscope’s involvement not only with vampires but also with the twisted figure 8 or ‘eternity’ symbol of the Mobius Strip. In order to get to Dragosani, Harry first must understand the Mobius connection. But here at least he was on familiar ground; the astronomer and mathematician August Ferdinand Mobius had been dead since 1868 - and the dead would do anything for Harry Keogh …
    In Leipzig Harry visited Mobius’s grave and discovered him at work on his spacetime equations. What he had done in life he continued,
    Brian Lumley
    Necroscope: The Lost Years - Vol. I
     
    undisturbed, to do in death; and in the course of a century he had reduced the physical universe to a set of mathematical symbols. Mobius knew how to bend spacetime! Teleportation: an easy route into the Chateau Bronnitsy.
    For days Mobius instructed Harry, until the Necroscope was sure that the answer lay right there in front of him - just an inch beyond his grasp. But the East German GREPO (the Grenz Polizei) were watching him, and on the orders of Dragosani tried to arrest him at Mobius’s graveside … where suddenly Mobius’s equations transformed themselves into doorways into the strange immaterial universe of the Mobius Continuum! Using one of these doors to escape from the GREPO, finally Harry was able to project himself into the grounds of Soviet E-Branch HQ.
    Calling up from their graves an army of long-dead Crimean Tartars, the Necroscope destroyed the chateau’s defences, then sought out and killed Dragosani. But in the fight he, too, was killed … his body died; but in the last moment his mind, his will, transferred to the metaphysical Mobius Continuum.
    And riding the Mobius Strip into future time, Harry’s identity was absorbed into the as yet unformed infant mentality - of his own son!
    August 1977
    Drawn to Harry Jr’s all-absorbing mind like an iron filing to a magnet, Harry Keogh’s identity was in danger of being entirely subsumed and wiped clean. His only avenue of freedom lay in the Mobius Continuum, which he could only use when his infant son was asleep. But while exploring the infinite future timestream, Harry had noted among the myriad blue life-threads of Mankind a scarlet thread: another vampire! Worse than this, in the near future he’d seen that red thread crossing the innocent blue of young Harry’s!
    The Necroscope investigated. He was incorporeal, yes, but so were the teeming dead; he could still communicate with them, and they were still in his debt. In September of 1977 he spoke to the spirit of Thibor Ferenczy - once a vampire - at his tomb in the Carpathian Mountains; also to Thibor’s ‘father’, Faethor Ferenczy, who died in a World War II bombing raid on Ploiesti.
    Harry was cautious. Even when dead, vampires are the worst possible liars, devious beyond measure. But the Necroscope had nothing to lose (literaly), and the vampires had much to gain; Harry was their last contact with a world they had once planned to rule. Thus, by trial and error, playing oh so dangerous cat-and-mouse word-games with the Wamphyri, he pieced together the terrible truth: that in the late 1950s Thibor had ‘infected’ a pregnant English woman, Georgina Bodescu, who later gave birth to a son. And Thibor’s spawn, Yulian Bodescu, was the source of the threatening red thread!
    In Romania, Alec Kyle and Felix Krakovitch, current heads of their respective ESPionage rings, joined forces to destroy the remains of Thibor in his Carpathian mausoleum. There they burned a monstrous remnant of the vampire, but not before Thibor sent Yulian a