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Review of Savage - Richard Laymon by erinmitch

Advantages: Answers questions about the Ripper
Disadvantages: It's just fiction

Follows the story of Trevor Bentley a fifteen year old boy that lives in London East End. The date is 8 November 1888 and Trevors mother has been beaten by a drunken friend of his fathers (who is deceased).After rendering the man unconscious with the fireplace poker Trevor heads out to retrieve his uncle.Finding his uncle not at home Trevor sets out on foot determined not to return home without him. After several mishaps and some nasty close ...
...warm himself.After a bit of investigating he finds the room is the dwelling of an unfortunate named Mary Kelly.Hearing voices returning to the room Trevor dives under the bed to hide. Eventually they leave and Trevor drifts off to sleep.Later he is awoken by a squeal,not a squeal of pleasure like she had been making earlier,but one filled with pain and fear.Frozen in fear he hears the wet smacking sounds of flesh being carved and blood drips ... Read review

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15.06.2004
You wont want to read this in the dark........
Review of In the Dark - Richard Laymon by NewYork2006

Advantages: A bit of suspense and thriller
Disadvantages: Poorly written and a but far fetched sometimes

...town and gets a job in the local Library. She feels her life is very mundane and boring and she will not be able to meet new people but then an envelope appears on her desk in the library with her name on it. She opens it to find $50 and a note with a clue which leads her upstairs to a book where she finds another envelope with a note but this time with $100. The notes are signed MOG (Master of Games) and each note has another clue which leads her ...
...in order to get the next envelope, each containing twice as much money as before. I started off really enjoying this book and thought the suspense was quite good and 'where will she be sent and what will she have to do next?' but then I thought the book started to get a little far fetched. First of all she is being sent to stranger and stranger places and being asked to do horrible things (such as walk into an abandoned house, go upstairs to an ... Read review

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23.07.2006
The Midnight Tour
Review of The Midnight Tour - Richard Laymon by steve0967

Advantages: Horror, Shock and Gore. Laymon style.
Disadvantages: None

The Midnight Tour is the 3rd book in the Beast House chronicles, I have read mixed reviews about the book but i personally feel that this may be the best of the three. The book is the longest of the