Amara, Princess of Egypt, lies in her coffin in the Charles Wood museum. She's been dead for 4000 years. Or has she Barney, the nightwatchman, is the first to discover the mummy's coffin has been broken open. It seems grave-robbers are at work, so it's a pity that Barney can't tell the authorities - the dead can't testify to anything. Now Amara is free again and nothing can kill her...
Author Biography
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.
