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    The Stake: A corpse holds deadly secrets

    Richard Laymon

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    'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King

    In an abandoned hotel in a Californian ghost town, horror writer Larry Dunbar and his friends make a chilling discovery. By chance they stumble on a coffin hidden under the stairs. Within lies the corpse of a naked female - with a stake through its heart. Was she the innocent victim of a gruesome murder Or was she a vampire There's only one way for Larry to solve the mystery - he must pull out the stake...

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    Praise for The Stake

    • In Laymon's books, blood doesn't so much as drip as explode, splatter and coagulate - IndependentNo one writes like Laymon and you're going to have a good time with anything he writes - Dean KoontzA gut-crunching writer - Time OutA brilliant writer - Sunday ExpressThe author knows how to sock it to the reader - The Times

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    Richard Laymon

    Richard Laymon

    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 four novels in the Beast House Chronicles: THE CELLAR, THE BEAST HOUSE, THE MIDNIGHT TOUR and FRIDAY NIGHT IN BEAST HOUSE. He died in February 2001.

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