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作者： Richard Laymon 著
出 版 社： Oversea Publishing House
出版时间： 1999-6-1字数：版次： 1页数： 378印刷时间： 1999/06/01开本： 32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780843945508包装： 平装编辑推荐
作者简介：
RICHARD LAYMON,Richard Laymon is the author of over 30 novels and 65 short stories. Though a native of Illinois and a long-time Californian, his name is more familiar to readers in Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the rest of the world (where he is published in 15 for-eign languages) than it is to most Americans. He is the author of such novels as The Woods Are Dark, Out Are the Lights, Tread 'Softly, Resurrection Dreams, Midnight's Lair, The Stake, Quake, and Savage. He has also written The Beast House Chronicles comprised of The Cellar; Beast House, and The Midnight Tour. Two of his novels (Flesh and
Funland) and his short story collection (A Good, Secret Place) were nominated for Bram Stoker Awards given by the Horror Writers Association. Richard lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Ann, and his daughter, Kelly.
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内容简介
One of the benefits of Dorchester's ambitious horror line--the only such line from a major American publisher--is the return of Laymon to domestic mass market. Laymon's vigorous, daring tales were popular here in the 1980s, but recently he has been overlooked by mainstream American houses (though he sells well in Britain and is published here by specialty houses, e.g., Cemetery Dance, The Midnight Tour, 1998). It's a shame, then, that his reentry to our paperback racks comes with this novel (published in Britain in 1996), not one of his best. A kind of sequel to The Stake (1991), the story opens as Santa Monica narrator Sam, 26, is visited by old flame Cat: she wants him to kill Elliot, an unwelcome nightly visitor whom she claims is a vampire. Sam agrees, slaying Elliot with a stake in a scene that, typical for Laymon, is bloody, tinged with eroticism and unfolds a whisker away from black humor. The remainder of the novel details Sam and Cat's violent misadventures, including run-ins with homicidal drifters, as they try to dispose of the body. There's some thematic play about the vampire in us all, and Laymon's writing is as crisp and gleefully malevolent as ever, but the characters are thin and the plotting is too linear, incident piled upon incident, dissipating suspense. Still, Laymon fans won't want to miss this one. (June)
