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Ferenczy had set in motion a gradual metamorphosis in a child as yet unborn.
He had physically (and psychically, spiritually) defiled an innocent
unsuspecting mother-to-be, causing something of himself to attach and cling to
her foetal child. Now that child was grown to a youth, Yulian Bodescu, and as
he had developed so his potential for evil had outstripped his human and
humane side to achieve a monstrous vampire dominance.
The task of the British E-Branch had been twofold: to seek out and destroy
whatever remained of lingering vampire influences (especially what remained of
Thibor) in the
USSR and her satellites, and so ensure that the 'Bodescu situation' could
never arise again; also to destroy Yulian Bodescu himself, through whom Thibor
had determined to terrorize the world anew.
But Bodescu had discovered the covert workings of E-Branch, specifically their
plot and determination to put him down, and had turned his awesome emerging
vampire powers and cold, cruel fury upon them. His principal adversary in the
Branch had been the incorporeal Harry Keogh, who at that time was trapped in
the psyche of his own infant son. Kill Harry Jnr and Bodescu would also rid
himself of Harry. After that . . . the remaining members of E-Branch could be
tracked down and picked off one by one, at the vampire's discretion.
This was a scheme monstrous enough in itself, but the true horror of the
situation would lie in the aftermath of such a bloodbath; for then there would
be no stopping
Bodescu, who could create almost at will an army of undead followers which
would spread like a dark plague across the face of the entire earth! And this
was a very real possibility, for while Bodescu had become one of the Wamphyri,
he did not have their self-discipline. They were essentially territorial; they
had their cold pride; they were solitary and cautious, and usually firmly in
control of their own destinies. Most of all, they were jealous of their
powers, deviously protective of their Wamphyri nature and history, aware and
appreciative of human skills and ingenuity. Only let mankind become aware that
they were real and not merely creatures of myth and legend, and men would
strive to hunt them down and destroy them forever! But Yulian Bodescu was
'self-taught'; he had had no Wamphyri instruction. He was none of the things
which had made them what they were and possessed none of their dubious
qualities. He was only a vampire, and he was insane!
Brenda and her months-old infant son Harry Jnr were living in a garret flat in
Hartlepool on the north-east coast of England when matters finally came to a
head. Leaving a trail of bloodshed and destruction behind him, Bodescu evaded
E-Branch's attempts at entrapment, fled his home in Devon and travelled north.
Having inherited his mentor's expertise in hideous necromancy, he could
'examine' the desecrated corpses of his victims and read in their brains and
blood and guts all of their innermost secrets. This was his intention in
respect of the two Harrys, father and son: to murder them and steal the
secrets of the Necroscope, and so discover the nature and properties of the
metaphysical Mobius Continuum.
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E-Branch, closing on the Devon house to destroy it, missed their main quarry
but discovered unthinkable horror there. Bodescu's aunt, uncle and cousin had
been tortured and vampirized; his huge black dog was something more than a
mere dog; a semi-plastic thing inhabited the earth under the extensive
cellars, and Bodescu's mother was quite out of her mind from the unbearable
knowledge of what Yulian had become. The house and all who dwelled in it were
put to the torch.
E-Branch had men in Hartlepool, psychically talented people who were keeping a
low profile in and around the Edwardian building which housed Brenda's flat.
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The local police and Special Branch had also been informed (however guardedly,
so as not to panic the populace) that the woman and child in the garret rooms
were possible targets for an 'escaped lunatic'. Their presence hardly deterred
the vampire; he invaded the building, killed all who stood before him
mercilessly and with dreadful efficiency, and finally reached his objective.
But where the incorporeal Harry Keogh himself had been impotent, his infant
son was anything but. His father's freakish powers had come down to him; he
could talk to the dead, could even call them up from their graves in the
cemetery across the road from the house.
Harry Snr had considered himself 'trapped' in the baby's psyche, but this had
not been the case. The infant had held him there for one reason only: to
explore Harry's mind and learn from it. Physically he was a baby, apparently
helpless, but mentally -
Harry Jnr's talents were already vaster far than anything his father possessed
or ever dreamed of achieving. And his potential was enormous. All the theory
was there in the child's mind and only practical application, experience, was
missing. But not for long.
Brenda, attempting to protect her infant son from the incredible nightmare
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