Necroscope: Harry And the Pirates: And Other Tales From the Lost Years
“where a juicy, or action-packed, or especially gripping paragraph has been taken from the text and reprinted as a hook for the potential reader, that fellow browsing in the bookstore—I cajoled my publisher to feature a concoction, found nowhere else in the book, which then and now I considered not only a fair description of what a Necroscope is, but also one “grabber” of a blurb. It goes like this: DEFINITIONS: Tele- (Gk. tele: “far”) A telescope is an optical instrument which enlarges the ...images of distant objects. Example: the surface of the moon may be viewed as from a few hundred miles away.
Micro- (Gk. mikros: “small”) A microscope is an optical instrument which makes even tiny objects visible to the human eye. Under a microscope a drop of clear water is seen to contain myriad un-suspected micro-organisms.
Necro- (Gk. nekros: “a corpse”) A Necroscope is a human instrument with access to the minds of the dead. Harry Keogh is the Necroscope—he knows the thoughts of corpses in their graves.MoreLess
Micro- (Gk. mikros: “small”) A microscope is an optical instrument which makes even tiny objects visible to the human eye. Under a microscope a drop of clear water is seen to contain myriad un-suspected micro-organisms.
Necro- (Gk. nekros: “a corpse”) A Necroscope is a human instrument with access to the minds of the dead. Harry Keogh is the Necroscope—he knows the thoughts of corpses in their graves.MoreLess
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