Amara: A chilling and riveting horror novel - Hardcover

Laymon, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747269327 ISBN 13: 9780747269328

Publisher: Headline, 2003

Synopsis

AMARA, Princess of Egypt, the once-beautiful wife of Mentuhotep the First, lies in her coffin in the Charles Ward museum. Dead these 4000 years, now she's just an inanimate bundle of withered skin and desiccated bone. Or is she?

When Barney the nightwatchman, discovers that the mummy's coffin has been broken open, it seems grave-robbers are at work, out to steal valuable artefacts, just as their kind have done for centuries. It's a pity Barney and the guards can't tell the authorities how the mummy came to be missing. But the dead can't testify to anything.

Now Amara is free again, driven by an ancient need that can only be assuaged at the cost of human life. No one can oppose her, no bullet can stop her and nothing can kill her - for she is dead already.

About this title

About the Author

Richard Laymon was born in Chicago in 1947. He worked as a schoolteacher, a librarian, a mystery magazine editor and a report writer for a law firm before working full-time as a writer. In May 2001 THE TRAVELLING VAMPIRE SHOW won the prestigious Bram Stoker Award for Best Horror Novel, a prize for which he had previously been short-listed five times. Richard Laymon wrote many acclaimed works of horror and suspense. He died in February 2001.

Edition details

• Publisher: Headline
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0747269327
• ISBN 13: 9780747269328
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352