Book description
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King 2:32am: A
Jaguar roars along a lonely road in the Californian mountains. Behind
the wheel sits the beautiful wife of Professor Grant Parkington. She has
left Grant behind and is on her way to meet a different kind of man -
someone as wild and passionate as herself. In the morning a naked body
will be found. A body missing more than its clothes...
'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.