Friday Night In The Beast House [Import] [Hardcover]

Richard Laymon (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Headline Publishing Group (2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0755337646
• ISBN-13: 978-0755337644
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,065,913 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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!, February 11, 2003

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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, December 21, 2005

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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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, March 4, 2003

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R. Boisen "pacificrose2002" (Nelson, New Zealand) - See all my reviews
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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