![]() 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. ![]() 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. 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. 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). 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. ![]()
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