If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.

Also they like to have a laugh along the way. Inspiration
Lumley's list of his favourite horror stories—"not complete by any means and by no means in order of preference"—includes M. He also received a World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2010.

P. The Necroscope saga is closed with the novel The Touch. Also they like to have a laugh along the way.