Book description
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King The
supermarket shouldn't have been shut - it wasn't normal for Elsie to
quit early. But then it wasn't normal for a meat cleaver to fly through
the air by itself. Or for a guard dog locked in overnight to end up as
hamburger meat. Or for Elsie herself to feature on the butcher's slab,
neatly wrapped and jointed... There's weird things happening in the town
of Oasis and certain folks - like hotshot local reporter Lacey Allen -
had better... BEWARE!
'A gut-crunching writer'
Richard Laymon was born in Chicago in 1947 and grew up in California.
Four of his books have been shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award, which
he won in 2001 with THE TRAVELLING VAMPIRE SHOW. Among his many
acclaimed works of horror and suspense are THE STAKE, SAVAGE, AFTER
MIDNIGHT and the four novels in the Beast House Chronicles: THE CELLAR,
THE BEAST HOUSE, THE MIDNIGHT TOUR and FRIDAY NIGHT IN BEAST HOUSE. He
died in February 2001.
