Book description
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King Melvin
always was a creepy kid. Vicki still has nightmares about what he did
with the dead body and the car battery. Now, years later, he's been
released from the institution and Vicki knows she'll be seeing him
again. But Melvin's been developing his work with the dead and this time
his plans include her.
'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.
