The Beast House - Richard Laymon

The Beast House is the sequel to The Cellar, and is a sequel in the truest sense - it continues the story of the original, rather than just being a rehash to cash in on the first book's success. It's difficult to describe the plot without giving away the ending of The Cellar, but it involves another group of people's encounter with the Beast House at Malcasa Point. Laymon has clearly made an effort to make this novel dovetail with the first, and he succeeds well, for example making one of the stars of The Beast House a friend of an apparently incidental character who dies at the beginning of ... more

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 the night - probably not the best time to read a horror! The Beast kills in the Beast House, an old house where the beast first killed which has been ... more