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A thriller tellling the story of The Beast House, the legendary site of ghastly murders. The midnight tour is the one beginning on the stroke of midnight, Saturday nights only. On this particular Saturday night the tourists are to be joined by an unexpected visitor and they will be lucky to get out alive.
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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.
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One of the authors most affected by the domestic turndown in the horror market in the 1990s is Laymon, who published many novels, mostly mass market, here in the '80s. He remains popular in the U.K. and Australia, with new books appearing there regularly, but his fiction has for the most part gone out of print in the U.S. So kudos to Cemetery Dance for bringing his new novel, a sequel to The Cellar and The Beast House, to American readers. It's classic Laymon, which means that it's full of titillating sex and violence aimed at the teenager in us all, but also that it's constructed in stripped-down prose that spits across the page and is rife with strong characters traced in deft strokes. Laymon expertly seeds the backstory?of the notorious house in a small California town, site of numerous savagings by an unknown species of sexually ravenous, humanoid "beasts"?throughout the narrative, which follows the liaisons and perils of a woman raped decades ago by a beast, and of several guides and tourists around the house, now a tourist attraction. A copulating couple is buried alive; Peeping Toms spy on three bathing beauties; a woman is raped, then handcuffed in a cellar tunnel?and so on in Laymon's lurid tale, which speeds steadily toward a bloody climax, the eponymous tour of the Beast House, and a merciless conclusion. It's a nightmare ride but plenty of fun for those who like their horror no-frills and nasty.
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- PublisherCemetery Dance Publications
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1881475409
- ISBN 13 9781881475408
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages600
- IllustratorAlan M. Clark
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Book Description Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Alan M. Clark (illustrator). Limited Edition. A fine, signed limited edition in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Richard Laymon on the limitation page, number 400 of 1000 numbered copies. Crease to inner flap of jacket. Buckram binding. Burgundy endpapers. 600 pp. Octavo. "It is the summer of 1997. Many years have gone by since Janice Crogan's summer of horror. The town of Malcasa Point has changed a lot and so has the Beast House tour. Due to several popular books and movies about the infamous house of death, the tour is bigger and better than ever.The self-guided daytime tour, safe for the whole family, gives the sanitized version of the attacks and murders. If you want the real story, however, you can get it.Just take the Midnight Tour.Every Saturday night, for a hundred dollars, you and twelve other guests can participate in the special picnic, private screening of The Horror, and the tour itself.The tour starts at midnight. Your guide is the spunky young "Tuck," who knows everything about Beast House. As she leads you through the gloomy old house, she'll be happy to tell you all the most grisly, shocking, lurid details about the beast, its weird anatomy, and the horrible rapes and killings that have been committed in the various rooms and corridors, in the attic, in the cellar.Don't worry, the tour's a little scary and disgusting, but it's perfectly safe.Usually." ---publisher's web site. Seller Inventory # 1237
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Book Description Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Allan M. Clark (illustrator). Limited. Cemetery Dance Publications, Abingdon, MD, 1998. Limited First Edition in color DJ, 569 pp. This is #310 of 1000 numbered copies SIGNED BY LAYMON on limitation page. Huge horror novel and Book Three in the Beast House Chronicles (The Cellar and The Beast House were the first two). This copy is unread and essentially as new. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 000570
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