Name the last three books you have read...

If it doesn't have an expiration on it just save for when the next full novel comes out. I would think maybe next year? Butcher got the last two out back to back after the years long hiatus & now this (surprise) novella, so hopefully sooner rather than later.

 

The Universal Tone by Carlos Santana, The Great Alone, and Braiding Sweetgrass.

 

I got to admire your discipline @Tamstrong I read for a while then take 3 weeks off (ok maybe 4 weeks). I read the benefits of reading, & I'm still not committed. I got to change that since I'm working on going back to college.

 

So did all 3 books in the first series you read actually all have that same cover art? If so, that should have been a red flag about the series. They didn't even bother to go with some sort of series cover theme/design for each book (like the Casey Odell books) but lazily just recycled the same art. SMDH.

 

No Horror books? Are you feeling ok Tam? Do you have a fever?

 

Refresher read for a trio of books I first read over a decade ago.



As an evil pair of vampire lords and a deadly lady invade Earth, Harry Keogh, the Necroscope, is dead, and a new, untried Necroscope must overcome conflicting loyalties to lead E-Branch against the vampires.



Jake Cutter is reluctantly learning how to be a Necroscope--how to use the Mobius continuum to travel instantaneously from place to place, how to talk to the dead--but dead humans don't like him much. It seems Jake's got a hitchhiker named Korath. Since Korath holds the key to the Mobius equations, Jake can't just kick him out . . . though he's certainly trying.

Jake's not sure he really wants to be a member of E-Branch, the supersecret ESP-powered organization that's dedicated to eradicating the vampire infestation of Earth. To the freewheeling, passionate Jake, the E-Branchers seem a little stuffy and hidebound--except for the lovely Liz, whom Jake wants to get to know better, body and mind. But Liz is a telepath, and if Jake's not careful, she'll find out about Korath. And that will likely be the end of Jake Cutter.

In Australia, Jake helped E-Branch destroy the aerie of the mind-master , Nephtam Malinari, one of a trio of Great Vampires who came to Earth from the vampire world. Malinari escaped and went to ground with the hideously beautiful Lady Vavara. Vavara has taken over a holy monastary on a beautiful Greek island and turned the nuns into most unholy creature with fearsome appetites for all things carnal.

Jake wants revenge against the Italian mobsters who killed the woman he loved and nearly killed him. As far as he's concerned, E-Branch can search for Malinari, Vavara, and the metamorphic Lord Szwart without him until he's satisfied his own bloodlust. But it seems vampire hunting is truly Jake's job now--the men he's trying to kill aren't men at all, but vampire spawn, hidden for two generations in human guise! To defeat them, Jake will need every weapon in a Necroscope's arsenal, including the power to all the unsleeping dead out of their moldering graves.



The packed cruise ship is a terrific nesting ground for a Lord and Lady of the Wamphyri on the run from E-Branch and the new Necroscope, Jake Cutter. By the time the ship is reported missing, the few beings still living on board will no longer be human . . . and the Wamphyri will be long fled to their next conquest.

Korath, the vampire who lurks in Jake Cutter's mind, is determined to gain control of Jake's life, and Jake is equally determined not to let him have it. But to win this struggle Jake must confide in Ben Trask-and Trask, the head of E-Branch, is likely to want Jake dead the minute he learns of Jake's intrusive passenger!

The spore garden planted under London by the third Wamphyri, Lord Swartz, is bearing bitter fruit indeed as a mysterious sleeping sickness-with a vampiric taint-slowly spreads among the population of Great Britain.

E-Branch action teams have more on their plates than they can handle. They must locate terrorists who threaten the world with nuclear homicide; permanently close the Gate between the Wamphyri world and Earth; analyze the spore plague; and locate and destroy the three Wamphyri.

Even the powers of Harry Keogh, the original Necroscope, summoned from the Great Beyond via the combined powers of E-Branch's strongest agents, may not be enough to defeat the monsters who have brought Earth to the brink of total destruction.



The official end of Brian Lumley's long running Necroscope/Vamiphri series outside of occasional Lost Tales novellas & Necroscope : The Touch (which features a different Necroscope battling a non vampiric but equally horrific alien threat).

 

Been a while since I waited on a new release, but Cormac McCarthy is releasing 2 new books Tuesday. One is titled The Passenger and has an aviation element. Can't wait. New releases usually hit 12:01 Tuesdays.

Side note, I was sitting in a coffee shop outside Santa Fe NM reading on my Kindle when somebody stopped in front of me, leaned over and whispered, "is that one of my books?" to which I answered, "nope, but it will be next". Notoriously stand offish man, no idea why I got so lucky. Total fan girl vapors.

I sat beside Steven King on an airplane about 30 years ago, had no idea who he was. Knew he was someone because they FA asked him if he preferred she not allow people in FC to speak to him. Later on I was in a bookstore that had a huge poster of him and it hit me.

 

Joe Hill as in Stephen King's son I presume?