The Stake: (Richard Laymon Horror Classic)
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In an abandoned hotel in a California ghost town, horror writer Larry and his friends make a chilling discovery. By chance they stumble across a naked woman in a coffin with a stake driven through her heart. Was she a vampire or the victim of a gruesome murder?
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Richard Laymon was born in Chicago in 1947 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 STAKE, SAVAGE, AFTER MIDNIGHT and the three novels in the Beast House Chronicles: THE CELLAR, THE BEAST HOUSE and THE MIDNIGHT TOUR. Sadly, Richard Laymon died in February 2001.
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
The Stake is one of Richard Laymon's best novels around. While it is much slower in pace than his normal books, it sustains your interest and you won't be able to put it down! If you have read any of his other books and are considering purchasing more, make sure The Stake is one of them!
Larry Dunbar is a strugling horror writer. But, when he and his friend Pete find a female corpse with a stake through it's heart, he may just have a story. Larry wonders to himself: Could this be a vampire?
There's only one way to tell... He'll just have to pull the stake...
Format:Paperback
A totaly brilliant and vibrant read, the storyline was always nail biting and though about vampires was really quite believable even in this day and age. A writer who can make any storyline one that any person that appreciates a book would want to read.
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The moment I picked this up I couldn't put it down. I HAD to know how it ended. Along the way I got very entertained by a master of horror fiction. Now I want to read all of his books.
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Well written and gripping from the start.
First published back in 1990, by the time Laymon knocked out `The Stake' he already had a fair old number of well received novels under his belt. Read more
Published on 3 Feb 2009 by Chris Hall
A really good read
The first few pages of the book ensure that reader continues to the end of the final chapter. I have given the book a five star rating because of the plot and the authors style of... Read more
Published on 4 Jan 2008 by Peanuts
another addictive, lighthearted horror novel from Laymon
The Stake was my seventh Richard Laymon novel and I hav yet to read something of his which i have not absolutely loved. Read more
Published on 7 Jun 2006 by marky77
brilliant!
He has his very own writing style - well, most of the better authors do but Laymon's is really unique. No one writes like him. Read more
Published on 16 Feb 2006 by Gina Skinner
My first Laymon, but it won't be my last.
Horror author Larry, his friend Pete, and their wife's jean and Barbra all go exploring a ghost town. Read more
Published on 6 Jan 2006 by Amanda
Laymon at his best
The Stake is the sort of book you can read again and again. The characters are richly developed, and the story is a real page turner; so much so you end up hoping you never reach... Read more
Published on 23 Feb 2005
A vampire tale without a vampire
The Stake is intrinsically a fairly straightforward tale, but one where the true nature of the vampire is not revealed until the dying chapters of the story. Read more
Published on 10 Aug 2003 by "midgeybear"
A corker of a read.
This book was very interesting to read and in some places very intense, the kind of book that begged not to be put down. I'm a writer myself and based my writings on Richards work. Read more
Published on 31 Aug 2001
Hmmmm
This was a great idea for a book with plenty of speculation as to what will happen when the stake is pulled. Read more
Published on 7 Aug 2001
Another disgustingly brilliant book from a brilliant author
Wow, this is one of the best books i have read. Not his best book, which i still think is Ressurection Dreams, but a very close contender. Read more
Published on 9 Dec 2000
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