When Mark finally musters his courage to ask Alison out, she accepts with one stipulation: that he help sneak her into the notorious Beast House after it closes.
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In February of this year, Laymon, then president of the Horror Writers Association, died of a heart attack at age 53. A few weeks ago, the last of his novels to be published before his death, The Traveling Vampire Show, won the HWA's Stoker Award for best novel of the year. Soon after Laymon died, Cemetery Dance, which issued that award winner, brought out Night in the Lonesome October. But it turns out that wasn't the last we'll see of Laymon, nor is this new, enjoyable short novel. The Beast House Chronicles, launched in 1979, made Laymon's reputation. This novella is the slightest of the series four entries, emotionally as well as in page length, but it features all the trademark Laymon touches. There's a horny teen protagonist, Mark, and a spooky adventure, as Mark accepts the dare of the girl of his wet dreams, Alison, that he help her sneak into Beast House, scene of several horrific murders during past decades and now a major tourist attraction in the small West Coast town where it stands. There are plenty of suspenseful and scary moments as Mark breaks into the Beast House and hides in the Beast Hole, and a particularly shocking twist at book's end. Above all, there's that inimitable Laymon style, the use of simple, strong sentences to construct, via extraordinarily vivid sensual detail, a narrative that envelops the reader in a moment by moment revelation of events in the service of a story that's terrific, nasty fun. All Laymon fans and anyone who likes horror served with a cackle are going to like this one.
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“Terrific, nasty fun. All Laymon fans and anyone who likes horror served with a cackle are going to like this one.” —Publishers Weekly
“One of horror’s rarest talents.”—Publishers Weekly
“If you’ve missed Laymon, you’ve missed a treat!” —Stephen King
“All Laymon fans and anyone who likes horror served with a cackle are going to like this one.” – Publishers Weekly
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
One short night at Beast House!,
By catcullen (northern ireland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Friday Night in Beast House (Beast House Chronicles) (Hardcover)
I bought this book simply because I am a Laymon fan, I have all his books and I knew before hand that the recommendations were not good on it. But I just didn't realise how poor the book would be. No disrespect here to Richard Laymon but I wonder did he ever approve of this book being released before his death. It is as others have said a very short book, printed with very large writing to make it look more than it is. It doesn't continue on from the Beast House trilogy and has very little of a storyline at all. It is not worth the money I paid and if you do want this book I would suggest buying secondhand or waiting til such time as it is released in paperback.I hope this book is not the shape of what is to come now Laymon is gone. As a great fan I would be severly disapointed.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A terrific entry in a great series,
This review is from: Friday Night in Beast House (Beast House Chronicles) (Hardcover)
Mustering up his courage he finally asks her out; she accepts on the stipulation that he spend FRIDAY NIGHT IN BEAST HOUSE after it closes. Excited he agrees to meet her stipulation hoping this is the ticket to ecstasy even though he knows the day time tourist attraction has been the sight of several ghastly homicides.On Friday night Mark breaks into Beast House. He proceeds to hide in the Beast Hole hoping to quietly pass time and emerge as a hero in the eyes of Alison. However, Beast House earned its reputation for grisly inexplicable murders and soon Mark and Alison will learn even wet fantasies can turn nightmarish in the wrong environs. Richard Laymon's final Beast House tale is a terrific entry in a great series that like it predecessors (see THE CELLAR, THE BEAST HOUSE and THE MIDNIGHT TOUR) hooks the audience into a complacency that slowly turns into tension and suspense wondering what will happen next to Mark. The delightful protagonist slowly realizes how much trouble he is in as he learns the truth about Beast House. Not quite at the emotional roller coaster levels of the previous three novels; this tale is a tense gripping thriller that will have readers searching for the previous books. Harriet Klausner
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A dissappointment,
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This review is from: Friday Night in Beast House (Beast House Chronicles) (Hardcover)
I am a huge fan of Mr Laymon but I must say I found this one very dissappointing. Compared to the blood, guts, gore and excitement of his other novels this was tame. The only encounter with a beast was a rape and not a very convincing effort either. His other books on Beast house are full of excitement but this is a quiet days reading. Not one I would recommend
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