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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 set weighing in at around 600 pages long, but the way it is written it will keep you hooked all the way through, I had a few sleepless nights due to me not being able to put the book down. Being as it is number 3 in a set, it would be of benefit to read ...
...still make sense because of the way the author has written it. The Midnight tour combines new characters along with the old ones from the previous 2 books, mainly concentrating on Sandy who got captured by the beasts and has now given birth to one, Tuck who is a spunky girl, who is also the person in charge of the tours, along with her old friend and new tour guide Dana, Owen who just cant wait to see the Beast house but has to contend with the evil ... Read review

Advantages: There are 3 books
Disadvantages: Not long enough

The Beast House is a fantastic sequal to The Cellar and a brilliant prequal to the Midnight Tour. I had not realised that there was a trilogy to the "Beast story" and I did not read them in order. I thought each was a compelling read in it's own right. Not wanting to give away too much of the story, The Cellar follows the story of a Beast which seems to inhabit Malcassa Point. There are twists and turns in the plot which kept me reading long into ...
...a horror! The Beast kills in the Beast House, an old house where the beast first killed which has been turned into a tourist attraction. For all Laymon fans it is definately a must. After I had finished The Cellar I had to run out and buy the other two books in the trilogy. Definately not one to ponder over in the book shop. ... Read review

Advantages: Another gore feast from Laymon
Disadvantages: Too many sex scenes

...days of high school. In the desert she manages to injure and escape from Rodney the psycho, but she decides to go back and get the car keys off what she thinks is a dead body... Although Rodney isn't dead he soon will be when the mysterious Sharpe turns up and saves her. Pamela then awakes on a bus where the driver will not speak to her "while the bus is in motion - it's against company policy!" Pamela soon discovers the bus is full of mannequins ... Read review

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The Travelling Vampire Show By Richard Laymon is more or less what all his other books are, only not as good as the rest. But it isn’t half bad either. Dwight is a like a goody two shoes but he can’t resist going along with his friends plans, especially slims who’s actual name is Frances and yes she is a girl. Slim is a very tomboyish type of person who likes to change her name often. Or maybe it is her personality or her past she is trying to change… ...
...habits. He’s a bit on the overweight side where as his other two friends are slim. So Dwight a solider type (hardly surprising since his dad is a cop’ Slim a bad girl (sort off and this can be explained by her mysterious past I suppose.) Rusty a rather pervey type with a very boring life almost I guess. Anyway to move on the story is that the three friends have a month or so to kill before their next school term starts and unfortunately Grandville ... Read review

Advantages: Creepy, tense, atmospheric - a simply marvellous book.
Disadvantages: Not Laymon's usual style at all - fans of his blood and guts novels might want to think carefully here.

...classic in every sense of the word. When horror writer Larry Dunbar and his friends explore an abandoned Californian ghost town, they find a coffin hidden away in an old hotel. The body inside is skeletal and, most curiously, staked through the heart. Though they drive away spooked and excited, the body plays on Dunbar's mind, becoming an obsession, until he returns to the town one night and retrieves the body. Could it really be a vampire? If he ...
...And there lies the novel. Will he pull out the stake? What will happen if he does? What will happen if he doesn't? A delicious 'what if' scenario, that's explored carefully and meticulously by the author. Much of Laymon's work is blood and guts action horror, but here we have something quieter and more sinister. Where he would normally shock, he twists the thumbnails of suspense to almost unbearable extremes - and it's a wonderful tension for the ... Read review