The Cellar - Richard Laymon

Every day visitors flock to the infamous Beast House at Malcasa Point-the scene for a series of brutal murders that occurred several years ago-and gasp in horror at the gruesome wax work figures that tell the official story of what went on. But what they hear is only half the story,a version heavily edited by the owner of the Beast House herself.... Mother and daughter,Donna and Sandy Hayes,come to the town fleeing an abusive figure from their ...
...the Beast House for the first time,the pair are intrigued and decide to pay it a visit-and it is during their tour that they encounter Larry;a man whose own past is linked to an unofficial visit he and a friend paid to the Beast House late one night as a teenager....a visit only he survived! Following another recent incident at the Beast House in which three more people were killed,Larry has returned to Malasca Point to finally face his demons and ...

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'The Cellar' was the first novel from Richard Laymon, an author who now fills whole shelves in your local horror section, and it reads very much like what it is. "I'm going to write a horror novel, what do I need to do?", says the author to himself. The answer, apparently, is to hold your breath, type and think at breakneck speed, make sure that everything is either action, sex, or plot, and then send it off to your publisher. It works very well. ...
...stop and appreciate this until the novel is finished. Nothing is lingered on that can be rushed through. The plus side, obviously, is that this is an exciting, pulse-hammering read from start to stop. A slim book, it blazes along breathlessly. The plot is inventive, a tale woven in two parts - the present and the distant past. At Malasca Point there stands a house with a history, with a Beast which turns up every few years to kill some unsuspecting ...

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...justified and necessary to define the character of Roy, a child abuser who is released from prison and sets off after his daughter and ex wife. They flee to a small town called Malcasa Point, which has a tourist attraction called Beast House, where there are some very strange goings on... For a first novel, it's very impressive, and hard to put down (I read it in two days), but when you read Laymon's later novels you can really see how much he's ...

philsammie 12.07.2000 · Read full review
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...I had to put down. The either detailed violence or graphic and disturbing sex is off putting to say the least. The Cellar is no different (dear god no), but the first few pages were gentle and engaging enough to have me read on. Laymon's plots have great sense of urgency and his characters are well defined. While some may say he's crude (he is) he does know how to tell a tale, though never content on scaring us he often makes it his mission to disgusts ...
...in you have to finish. The suspense is marvellous. There is a lot of interlinking going on in this one and the whole time you're wondering how it's all going to pan out, not to mention what the beast actually is. Read if you dare. The Cellar (1980) by Richard Laymon is the first of a series entitled Beast House Chronicles and was also his first novel to be published. First posted on: vegansteven.blogspot.com (2007) ...

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