THE TRAVELLING VAMPIRE SHOW The Travelling Vampire Show is coming to town and Dwight, Rusty and Slim are determined to go. But it's for over 18s only, there's a steep admission fee and the show starts at midnight, way past their curfew. They decide to go and watch the crew set up anyway, hoping to catch a glimpse of Valeria, billed as 'the only known vampire in captivity'. But when the three teenagers break the rules, they run into big trouble. DREADFUL TALES On a hot summer night in West LA, Shane Malone sits sweltering in front of his computer, trying to write an anthology in which every chilling tale must end in the death of a twenty-two-year-old woman in her apartment. But the deafening music from next door is not helping. He furiously bangs on his neighbour's door and discover's she's a twenty-two-year-old woman who will not be argued with. Shane is about to find out that life really can imitate art.
Author Biography
Richard Laymon was born in Chicago and grew up in California. Four of his books have been shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award, which he won in 2001 with THE TRAVELLING VAMPIRE SHOW. Among his many acclaimed works of horror and suspense are the three novels in the Beast House Trilogy: THE CELLAR, THE BEAST HOUSE and THE MIDNIGHT TOUR. He died in February 2001.
Accolades:
Bram Stoker Award Winner 2001 (The Travelling Vampire Show).
