Book description
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King A dark,
warm and continuous rain falls on the town of Bixby, coating the
inhabitants. Now a loving wife smashes her husbands head to a pulp. A
mob raids the cinema, attacking everyone inside. And a stranger at a gas
station grabs a customer, shoves a petrol pump down her throat, and
squeezes the trigger ...
'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.
