Amara, Princess of Egypt, the once-beautiful wife of Mentuhotep the First, lies in her coffin in the Charles Ward museum. Dead these 4000 years, now she's just an inanimate bundle of withered skin and desiccated bone. Or is she? When Barney the nightwatchman discovers that the mummy's coffin has been broken open, it seems grave-robbers are at work. It's a pity Barney and the guards can't tell the authorities how the mummy came to be missing. But the dead can't testify to anything. Now Amara is free again, driven by an ancient need that can only be assuaged at the cost of human life, and nothing can kill her - for she is dead already.
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Richard Laymon was born in Chicago in 1947. He worked as a schoolteacher, a librarian, a mystery magazine editor and a report writer for a law firm before working full-time as a writer. In May 2001 THE TRAVELLING VAMPIRE SHOW won the prestigious Bram Stoker Award for Best Horror Novel, a prize for which he had previously been short-listed five times. Richard Laymon wrote many acclaimed works of horror and suspense. He died in February 2001.
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AMARA,
By Daimonion (Oakland, CA.) - See all my reviews
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Well-drawn characters, one tense situation after another, a lot of strange sex, and a 6,000 year-old mummy reanimated and on killing spree.
This is one of Laymon's better posthumous novels. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Well...most of it. The ending made me furious. The resolution of one of the characters I thought was terrible. It was lazy writing, or he just didn't know what to do with her. I don't know. But it's the only thing I didn't like. Richard Laymon didn't flirt with the supernatural too often. Mostly it was crazed murderers and rapists. But once in a while he tackled magic, ghosts, monsters, etc. This time it's an Egyptian curse which sets loose the titular character on a killing spree through L.A. But that's only half of it. The other half involves 2 subplots about people dealing with their own particular brands of hell, one dealing with kidnapping and sexual slavery and the other with people following a trail of death leading them toward the mummy. All of these stories eventually converge, of course. This was also published under a different title, the name of which escapes me now. If you're into horror, I recommend it.
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Brilliant,
By marky77 (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Amara (Paperback)
I am a huge fan of Richard Laymon and have read and loved nearly all of his books so always have big expectations when starting one of his novels - and Amara deffinatly did not dissappoint! It is one of his best, in my opinion.
Although I do think the cover picture and the blurb on the back are slightly misleading as there are many charcaters and several plots (which is actually a good thing because they all weave together VERY well in the end with lots of clever surprises and twists) and so the mummy - Amara - does not play a massive part in the novel until quite a way through. However, the story doesn't not suffer from this at all and is still amazing with the usual addictive reading and very likeable characters from Laymon. This is actually one of the only books that I have read that I have actually found scarey. Made the mistake of reading it before I went to bed and kept thinking the mummy was in my house... Another excellent Laymon novel which I would recommend to all (although perhaps not the squeemish).
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A Page-Turner of a Horror Story,
By Wanderer (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Amara (Paperback)
I love Richard Laymon. With this novel, you have to set back and let it do its thing of being over the top. I couldn't stop reading, but I would criticize Richard--even though he's dead--for investing so much emotion in some characters and then...
Well, I don't want to spoil it. Yes, I liked it, but a writer should not break the trust of the reader. We like all the good guys to win. Here are some other Richard Laymon novels that were more satisfying for me. IslandIsland Darkness Tell UsDarkness, Tell Us The Traveling Vampire ShowThe Traveling Vampire Show Night in Lonesome OctoberNight in the Lonesome October
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